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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Please don't do this.

It's important that kids have opportunities to explore multiplication concepts, and work with manipulatives, arrays and repeated addition to figure out problems before they start to memorize their facts. Memorizing math facts is important, but there is plenty of time to do it if you start in the second half of 3rd grade and 4th grade after they've had those experiences.

Kids who learn memorization first, before they explore the whys of multiplication, can end up with brittle understandings of multiplication, which will trip them up when they get to higher level math in middle school.

-- a teacher

+1. The reason so many parents struggle to help their kids with math these days is because we weren't taught to truly understand it, just to memorize it. Don't let you kids fall into the same trap. [/quote]

I don't see anything wrong with memorizing for faster recall, if you already understand the concept.  My child figured out for himself that multiplication and division are just variants of the skip counting concept that he learned in K.  But he has memorized some multiplication to get faster recall.  He adores math, we don't force him to do memorize or do anything.   [/quote]

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