How long did it take for your kid to learn multiplication?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For many kids, it is a slog. It really is just memorization.

This. I’m teaching my second grader and we are about 2 months in and at 6s. I vividly remember learning the times tables in 4th grade. Kids are doing everything earlier now

Just curious, why are you teaching multiplication in 2nd grade? Are you homeschooling?

[Anonymous]

3 weeks. End of 2nd grade.

Learned it at home and practised it on the way to school and back. We would sing all the multiplication tables (rote memorization - Five 1's are five, five 2's are ten, five 3's are fifteen, five 4's are twenty, five 5's are twenty-five..), each set to different tunes.

+ play with the wrap up multiplication key from Amazon
+ flash cards
+ the 12X12 multiplication grid.

Check youtube for many other memorization hacks. You have to only memorize multiplication tables for a few numbers.

Easy-peasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For many kids, it is a slog. It really is just memorization.

This. I’m teaching my second grader and we are about 2 months in and at 6s. I vividly remember learning the times tables in 4th grade. Kids are doing everything earlier now

A tip to help her with 6s - when you multiply 6 by an even number, the answer will end in the same number:
6x2=12
6x4=24
6x6=36
6x8=48

https://www.mathsisfun.co...ricks.html

Actually, looking at this set, the 1st digit of the answer is 1/2 of the multiplier, although that pattern gets more complicated for multi-digit multipliers.

Did you already teach her 9s and 10s as easy ones? If you’ve taught her the easy ones and are working your way through the harder ones, then that just leaves 6x7 to memorize.

Once she knows 6x7, she’ll have 7x6 down for her 7s and will just have to learn 7x7 and 7x8. Then 8x8 will complete knowing her times tables up to 10. Elevens are easy to add on and it’s worth learning the trick for multiplying any number by 11.