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[quote=Anonymous]We practiced multiplication during dessert each night.   The upside was that we had dessert every night for about a month. Totally got my kid engaged.  She loves breaks in routines and thought the extra dessert was wild.

Anyway, during dessert I would tell her all of the answers to a particular table in a rhythmic sing song voice—e.g. 8x1 is 8.  8x 2 is 16.  I would go through all of the 8s, pausing at the harder ones to have her repeat them back to me.  Then, I would quiz her on the 8s.  We would stick with the 8s for a few days and then move to the 9s.  If she struggled or made a mistake I just told her the answer and had her repeat it back to me.  There was zero pressure.  She either knew it and could say it quickly or I gave her the answer and we would pause to try to get it to stick in her long term memory.  Eventually I would quiz her on all of the tables.  I didn’t make the lesson last longer than having dessert.  Sometimes she’d get on a roll and beg for more questions and one more bite of whatever dessert was.   She still asks for “math dessert” sometimes a few years later.

Some will think linking math and sweets is bad, but it worked for my kid and made the experience fun.  We loved picking our new desserts for the game and tried a bunch of unusual ice cream flavors that summer!

My kid is an auditory learning.  With a visual learner, I would do the same thing with flash cards.  The dessert is the key part!!![/quote]

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