Multiplication Table - knowledge, which is essential for the further development of mathematics. Usually teachers ask kids who have completed first grade to learn the table during the summer holidays. And the parents instead of the summer break from schoolwork and homework and give the child plenty startled by the fresh air, swim in the river and play with their peers, he was again seated behind desk.
In fact, to learn the multiplication table can be quite difficult, because we have decided to apply it is not in the table, but in the form of examples, which are really difficult to keep in the memory of the child. Therefore we suggest you to replace the multiplication table the Pythagorean table. This will make learning easier and more fun for the child.
TABLE Pythagoras
Explain the essence of the action itself. That the multiplication can be replaced by addition. For example, 3x4 = 4 + 4 + 4.
Highlight Color same value
On the table of Pythagoras child can clearly see that the change of factors places the product does not change 3x4 = 4x3. To help your child check such "mirror" answers a specific color.
Begin learning table in a playful way with the most simple and clear parts: the multiplication by 1, 2, 5 and 10. Explain to your child that when multiplied by the unit number remains unchanged and the multiplication by 2 gives double value. All answers to multiplication by 5 end in either 0 or 5. But multiplying by 10, in response we get the two-digit number of digits, which have multiplied, and zero.
consolidate results
Encourage your child to play this game: you draw a blank table of Pythagoras, and the child should try to fill the memory cells of the correct answers. Typically, such a study multiplication tables more interesting kid than monotonous memorization of examples.
IMPORTANT: please be patient. After what seems to us, adults, simple and obvious - for a child requires a lot of effort.
