The Best of Times: Math Strategies that Multiply written by Greg Tang and illustrated by Harry Briggs – This approach teaches students that memorization is not the only way to prevail in multiplication. It gives students different strategies for the multiplication problems they don’t know.
The Best of Times
The Best of Times gives kids an intuitive [...]
Amazing Pop Up Multiplication Book written by Kate Perry and illustrated by Jennie Maizels– This detailed illustrated pop-up book gives students practice on different parts of the multiplication table through different events.
The Amazing Pop-Up Multiplication Book (1998,Hardcover)
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Learning the Times Table
Playful patterns create all the times tables. On a tic-tac-toe square you put the numbers 1-9. In seconds you can create the Sevens multiplication table. It is fun and easy patterns that create 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, and 63. And there are ways to continue the pattern to [...]
This particular video enables learners, who have had difficulties with ‘tables’, to use low technology (namely their own hands)to work out the more difficult “Times Tables”! There are many who can’t ‘memorize them’ and this provides an alternative. Many learners have been mathematically empowered by using this method. Small children pick this up very quickly. [...]
