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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 479466" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>We did ALL those games in school, too. And more. Had a really great principal who loved math and loved teaching math and all the kids loved him and he took all the tough cases. I stayed in the same school for all of elementary and had him for all of those years. And he never did manage to teach me my multiplication tables. </p><p></p><p>What he DID do was teach me the strategies, and then found ways for everybody to practice the strategies... until those of us who struggled were almost as fast with our answers, as the best of the memorizers. But I never did manage to memorize ANY of it except 7x7.</p><p></p><p>More than that, the strategies are far more useful. Knowing the rule of 5 or the rule of doubling... works even with multi-digit math. 5 x 125 is NOT fast for a memorizer... much faster if you know the rule. </p><p></p><p>You DO know the rules, don't you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 479466, member: 11791"] We did ALL those games in school, too. And more. Had a really great principal who loved math and loved teaching math and all the kids loved him and he took all the tough cases. I stayed in the same school for all of elementary and had him for all of those years. And he never did manage to teach me my multiplication tables. What he DID do was teach me the strategies, and then found ways for everybody to practice the strategies... until those of us who struggled were almost as fast with our answers, as the best of the memorizers. But I never did manage to memorize ANY of it except 7x7. More than that, the strategies are far more useful. Knowing the rule of 5 or the rule of doubling... works even with multi-digit math. 5 x 125 is NOT fast for a memorizer... much faster if you know the rule. You DO know the rules, don't you? [/QUOTE]
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