Schoolchildren table seems boring and useless. Children get angry often, trying to understand the incomprehensible for them a set of numbers. Parents can make the learning process easier if to prepare for classes in advance.
How to help your child learn the multiplication table?
You should just explain schoolboy logic on which it is built. Put your little pupil at the table, you want to concentrate its attention and simply explain how the table of Pythagoras arranged. For example, to find out how many there will be 3 x 7, you need to find on the same axis 3, on the second 7, and then moving your fingers, at the intersection of these two values to see the number. It will be 21.
You should also explain to the kid that 3 x 5 - is the same as the 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3, that is 15.
Quickly and without nerves: how easily a child to learn the multiplication table / istockphoto.com
Advice for parents
1. Divide the learning stages
It is not necessary make baby teach the entire multiplication table entirely. This may scare young scientist large amount of new information. This is the first. Secondly, it must qualitatively
learn tableAnd for that he will have time to digest.Recommended break the training into several stages. Start with the first column, and with each successive occupation add another, wherein the previous repeat.
2. Learn not only verbally but also in writing
One of the most effective exercises - this is a pupil filling empty plates. You can write by hand:
- 3 x 5 = ___
- 4 x 2 = ___
- 1 x 6 = ___
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3. "From the change of factors places the product does not change"
Explain to your child that not necessarily all learn the multiplication table, and can remember only half, for 2 x 3 - it is the same as the 3 x 2. Thus the student is aware of this and he will understand the principle of the multiplication tables.
4. Repeat the material studied
Wisdom says: "Repetition - the mother of learning." Do not forget to repeat the studied material every day (!). First, ask the child in the order in which it is taught. And when the answers the student will be confident, start asking questions randomly. Do not rush your baby, be sure to give him time to think.
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