How can I help my child to remember multiplication tables?
The average child that trys to learn the multiplication tables, they repeat it over and over again. It could be six months or a year later and they still don't know their tables. As an example for nine times five or five times nine is forty-five: every child knows what a football field looks like, so picture a football field with team number nine playing against team number five, and they're playing on the forty-five yard line. Get the picture? So nine times five, or five times nine, whats the yard line? The forty-five yard line. Now eight, eight looks like a snowman, can you see the head and the body of the snowman looking like the figure eight? Here we have eight times eight, there's mama snowman next to papa snowman, and they're celebrating their sixty-fourth birthday and there's a huge birthday cake with the sixty-four candles on it. See the picture? Eight times eight is what? Sixty-four, right? Now for four times eight, lets take four times eight, can you see our snowman, he's out on the desert holding a four leaf clover, thats eight times four. The desert's very hot; he says "I'm thirsty too." Thirsty too sounds like what? Thirty-two. So the child instantly remembers nine times five, eight times eight, eight times four.
