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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Filling in a chart is a good way for your child to realize there aren't actually that many to memorize.

So a 10 x 10 chart has 100 squares. If you fill in the 1's (both across and down), 2's, 5's, 10's and then teach the all the tricks for the 9's that is 75 spaces filled in!

So that leaves only 25 squares to memorize. I would not do screens.  Most math is done with pencil and paper. You want your child to be able to quickly and effortlessly write down an answer without giving it much thought.

I taught third grade for years and every year I did daily multiplication tests. Students had homework on whatever number you were studying that required them to complete 100 multiplication problems to complete (so if you were studying the 3's you had 100 problems - some set up vertical and some horizontal). Then you took a timed test the next day on that number. You pass and you go on to the next number, you don't pass you do another 100 problems for homework. Students took the test right before lunch and as I ate lunch I grades the tests then put the correct homework sheet in their cubbies to take home.

Once a month I had them fill in multiplication tables of which ones they had mastered to keep them encouraged.

By the end of the year out of around 25 students 23-24 were completely solid on any multiplication problem 1-10. This was at a poor school with many parents who hadn't graduated high school and/or didn't speak English. This was the only math homework that was mandatory. All the parents appreciated this homework and would ask me why their older kids didn't have teachers who made them memorize their multiplication tables.

The top students eventually moved on to division then reducing fractions and the top 1-3 students memorizing the most common/useful exponents.

I would have students come back every year and tell me how well they were doing in math. [/quote]

Can you explain how you had 100 problems of only the set they were studying? So for 3 times tables you would do 3x0 to 3x12 (13 problems) and the 0x 3 to 12x 3 equivalent problems (another 13 problems). That’s only 26 problems. So you would have most of the problems actually show up on the same homework set of 100 problems 8 times?[/quote]

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