Teach Your Children Tables

Bill Handley

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780730319641
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Matemáticas
• Subtopic: Juegos en matemáticas

Great math skills are a head start to lasting success

Teach Your Children Tables is the ultimate guide to improving your child's mathematical abilities. Written by a renowned education expert, this book provides a proven approach to teaching that will help you enable your child to master multiplication tables in less than half an hour, and solve problems like 96 x 97 faster than they could tap it into a calculator! This updated third edition includes new chapters on factors and playing with square numbers, plus tips for learning tables up to fifteen and beyond.

Children will learn that numbers can be fun while they improve their thinking skills, boost their confidence and self-esteem, learn problem-solving strategies, and set themselves up for lasting educational success.

People who excel at maths are not necessarily more intelligent; they just use better strategies than the rest of us. This book gives you the perspective and the strategies you need to improve your child's understanding of maths, and introduce them to techniques that will help them achieve better test results, whether it's the weekly quiz, NAPLAN, or scholarship or entrance exams. Imagine helping your child:

• Perform lightning-quick calculations
• Discover easy methods of multiplication
• Learn the basic principles of mathematics
• Have fun playing with numbers

Excellent maths skills present a serious advantage, throughout school and beyond. Children who are good at maths get better grades, higher test scores, and are accepted into better schools. Maths-minded adults are more in demand professionally, in fields that pay better and provide more room for upward mobility. If you could give your child this kind of gift, why wouldn't you? Now you can— Teach Your Children Tables shows you how, and makes it feel like fun.

Part I
Learning the method

Part I describes a simple method for teaching multiplication and enables students to master their tables in less than an hour by calculating the answers.

This is a simple method I have developed for teaching multiplication and basic number facts. It is the best way I know for children and adults to achieve instant success, which gives the student a high level of motivation.

Chapter 1
Teach your child tables

What is multiplication? How can you teach your child what the word means? If you are going to teach your child the multiplication tables and how to multiply, it is necessary to first teach her what multiplication is.

This is a method that I have found useful. I begin by holding up one hand and asking the child how many hands. Then I hold up both hands and ask how many. Then I hold up three fingers on one hand and ask how many fingers.

Next I hold up three fingers on each hand and ask her how many fingers. I tell her she can count the fingers if she likes. If she counts correctly, she will get the correct answer of six. I explain that she can add the fingers on each hand — that three fingers plus three fingers makes six fingers. That is addition.

I tell her she can also say two hands with three fingers, or two lots of three fingers make six fingers. That is multiplication. So three plus three and two threes are both the same — they both equal six.

You could ask someone else to hold up three fingers on each hand, too, so there are four hands altogether. Then you could either say three plus three plus three plus three or, simply, four threes. The child could also count the fingers to find that four threes make twelve fingers.

It's useful to point out that the more hands and fingers you have to count, the greater the chance of making a mistake. For example, when you have to count fingers on eight or nine hands it becomes hard work and you have even more chance of making a mistake.

You can use other examples. How many marbles in a glass? How many marbles do you have if you have three glasses with four marbles in each glass? This is all multiplication.

Multiplication is simply a short, easy way to write and do addition. It is addition written in shorthand. For instance, 3 times 7 means 7 plus 7 plus 7, or three sevens added together. Seven times 8 means 8 plus 8 plus 8 plus 8 plus 8 plus 8 plus 8, or seven eights added together. Two times 6 means two sixes added together, or 6 plus 6. A child needs to be able to understand this concept to use the methods taught in this book. That doesn't mean she must know the answers to 6 plus 6 or 4 plus 4.

I was asked to teach maths to a 14-year-old boy and, a...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Series
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: Learning the method
• Part II: Having fun with numbers
• Part III: Solutions and practice sheets
• Conclusion
• Advert
• End User License Agreement