Having come to school, children begin to receive a large stream of new information, which they will learn. Not all objects are given to them equally easily. One of the difficulties that parents face is the multiplication table. Not all children can easily remember it because of their individual characteristics. We will explain how to properly help a child learn the multiplication table in this article.
Each child is individual - this is the very first thing that parents who are faced with such a difficulty should remember. The child's inability to easily learn the multiplication table should not be perceived as a problem. Simply, the education system is not designed for an individual approach. And if the child can not mechanically memorize all the figures of the table, then he has an emotional or imaginative type of memory. Understanding this, you will be able to decide how easy it is for your child to learn the multiplication table.
Self-made multiplication table
One of the easy ways to learn the multiplication table is to compile the table itself. Once you have it, you can fill empty cells with the child. To begin with, you should take the most simple and understandable child figures. You need to start with multiplication by one.
The next figure, which will need to multiply the rest, will be 10. The child should explain that the principle of multiplication is the same as that of the unit, simply a 0 is added to the answer.
Next we can consider the multiplication table by 2, it is given to children easily, since to the figure multiplied by 2, simply add another one of the same. For example, "3x2 = 3 + 3".
With a figure of nine, the child can be explained as follows: from the final number, multiplying the figure by 10 should be taken away from it. For example, "9x4 = 10x4-4 = 36".
After the answers in the table with the indicated digits are written, you can delete the same answers with the marker from the remaining tables.
For the first day, the child will have enough of this information. The next day, the material will have to be repeated and several more tables added, starting with the simplest, for example, with the number 5. You can also walk with the child diagonally across the table: 1x1 = 1, 2x2 = 4 ... 5x5 = 25, 6x6 = 36 and etc. Many of these examples are easy to remember, since the answers are consonant with the numbers that are multiplied.
In order to learn the table the child may need about a week.
A game
To learn the multiplication table for a child will be easy, if you imagine everything as a game.
The game can be a set of cards with preset examples and answers that need to be selected. For the right answer, the child can give a card.
If the child is very developed memorization through images, one can associate each of the figures with a similar object or animal and invent a story about them. For such activities, a rich imagination should be not only for the child, but also for the parents. For example, 2 - swan, 3 - heart, 6 - house. The tale can look like this: "Swan (2) swam along the lake and found the heart (3). He really liked him, and he brought it to his house (6). " Children with a figurative type of memorization are very easily given such associations.
Poems
Another quick way how to help a child learn the multiplication table can be poetry. This option is suitable only for those children who memorize verses are given simply. Poems may look a bit ridiculous, but due to rhyme, children will quickly remember them.
For example:
"Five five to twenty-five,
We went out into the garden to take a walk.
Five-six-thirty,
Brother and sister.
Five-seven-thirty-five,
They began to break twigs.
Five eight is forty,
The watchman came to them.
Five-nine-forty-five,
If you break.
Five ten to fifty,
I will not let you into the garden any more. "
Parents need to remember that only patience and the ability to find an approach to the child can help him in mastering new knowledge.