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Why is it important? This was a question raised to me by my kids last night. I said: "Because later on you'll have kids of your own and you have to teach them maths." That's the best answer I could come up with. Apart from that, you use it everyday really.
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That's why I'm reading up on maths everyday. I'm going back to the basics. I found a nice book in the library that I come back to everyday. A while ago I did some long division exercises, operations heirarchy, and some Gauss addition problem
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Tonight we'll be doing a new set of times table. First daughter did 8 times table, second one did four times table. It's really interesting when you see the aha moment in kids eyes.
Here's how I make them memorize the times table:
- I'll pick what times table we're learning for the day.
- I take out my flash cards
- I'll make them write on paper the chosen number's times table. Let's say it's the 3 times table, they would write on paper the full 3 times table.
0 x 3 = 0
1 x 3 = 3
2 x 3 = 6
3 x 3 = 9
4 x 3 = 12
5 x 3 = 15
6 x 3 = 18
7 x 3 = 21
8 x 3 = 24
9 x 3 = 27
10 x 3 = 30
11 x 3 = 33
12 x 3 = 36
- They will read it out loud two times.
- I'll have them keep the paper, face down.
- Flash some cards.
- Whenever they make a mistake or take too long, they read aloud from the paper twice.
- Repeat until satisfied.