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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School House Rock - Multiplication Rocks

I am 400 and I still remember the songs.

We were just watching the 3 and 9 ones the other day.

Typically I find learning in song a lot easier.  [/quote]

I'm 40, smart, and my current job involves a lot of math. I was a economics major and a statistics minor in college. There's a big difference between being good at arithmetic (addition, multiplication, etc) and being good at math in general, like understanding theories and numbers. I still can't add and multiply in my head, but I am good at math. For a long time I had the idea that I was bad at math because I couldn't do the work in my head. I don't know why - I just cannot memorize this stuff. I still try sometimes but it doesn't stick. I guess what I'm trying to say is make sure your kids understand that never getting the hang of this doesn't mean they are bad at math. I cringe when I hear people say that. I guess some people probably are, but getting the message in 2nd grade that you're bad at math when there's so much more interesting math to come is sad. I took an entrance exam for high school and as a result was placed in an advanced math course. I tried to drop it, thinking it was a mistake. It took a high school teacher pretty much forcing me into the class for me to take it. I still have the report card from that first quarter. That 98 is still one of the things I'm most proud of.

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+1 being bad at multiplication tables doesn't mean you're bad at math. I was told how "bad at math" I was until high school. Finally, I learned my multiplication tables when I was 17. Fast forward and I have a PhD in statistics. Sometimes, I find myself still having to add six 8's together or something like that.

Does your daughter understand the concepts?  That should really be what's important. Math facts can be done on a calculator. [/quote]

On the other hand, I'm great at math facts, have them all down pat but horrible at higher math concepts.  Everyone is different!  And I have to use algebra all the time at my job.  I can do ratios, decimals and percentages and mental math, but that's it.  Luckily that's all I need.  Whew. [/quote]

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