How To Help Your Child Learn Some Elementary School Multiplication Tips Or Tricks
What are some "multiplication" tips or tricks?
Multiplication, you have your really super easy ones. You've got your times ones, and your times tens, and your times elevens. I start with those so that they feel like they know what they're doing. Most kids when they're learning addition facts will learn what they call "the doubles": four plus four, five plus five, six plus six. So then times two is really easy because they just have to recall their doubles. For the other ones- one of the things we like to do is we like to do counting by multiples. Most of the kids can count by fives, so times fives are fun. They just have to count and they get pretty good at them. If they can we try to teach them to count by threes, and count by fours, and count by sixes. It's a great skill for them to have later. Some of them get it really easily and some of them don't. There's a great trick for multiplying nines. Let's say you want to do nine times six. So, this is finger one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. If you want to do nine times six, you put down your sixth finger. The fingers on this side of your bent finger is your tens place, and the fingers on this side of your bent finger are your ones place. So, six times nine is fifty-four. If you want to do six times three, you put down your third finger so you've got two in your tens place and seven in your ones place, so it's twenty-seven. It works great for the nines, all the way up through nine times nine, which is nine, so you've got eight on this side and one on this side.
