Maths Blog

Stop Rote Learning – Stop holding your children back

Times tables are one of those things which everyone has to learn. Tables are traditionally things that have been learnt a certain way over the years.

People know they can learn their tables, but these are taught to us in a rote fashion, and to get them right takes a long time and a lot of effort.This means learning multiplication tables is slow, unproductive, and involves too much thinking, as we are taught them in a linear fashion.

For example schools still teach times tables by getting children to read or say them out loud repeatedly, or using some another form of repetition such as this:

1 x 2 = 2

2 x 2 = 4

3 x 2 = 6

This is rote learning and there is a much better and far easier way for your children to learn the tables! How?

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Photograph and remember times tables in an instant

Most people will have looked at their times tables as small numbers on a page and will often have said the numbers as they have tried to learn them.

This is not the best way to learn multiplication tables. There is a far easier way that uses your children’s minds just like a camera so that they can recall the tables in an instant.

We continually learn things in a visual way. So we see things and remember them and this is the key to learning tables the smart way!

To make multiplication tables far more memorable for your children you can use big visual numbers and put these in a place that will be remembered, so:
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Memory Sheets

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Build Confidence in Maths and Motivate your Children to do well

There is a basic need to learn times tables and the great news is that they can be learnt in such a way to give your child confidence.

Most parents know how incredibly important it is for their children to learn the times tables.

The tables are so important that they are one of the building blocks to education. You have to learn your tables if you want to become good at maths.

You can teach the the times tables in such a way that your children will gain huge confidence, raise their self esteem and also gain the belief that they are clever. How?

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Tags: children, Confidence, kids