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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm coming to the realization that my son did not learn his time tables as well as he should have, even though he's been doing the study methods required by the teacher (Everyday Math, so games and some math facts practice). I need to help him learn them solidly.  He's beginning to fall behind.   I learned just by rote memorization of a one-pager with the facts on it.    Is that the best way?   Or any other recommendations?   TIA[/quote]

We had the same issue a couple of years ago with my now 5th grader.  I just went back to the old system, memorize and repeat until it is drilled in your brain.  We would practice sometimes walking back home from school, sometimes in the car. To me this is the only way, I learned them over 40 years ago like this and still know them. I think the  supposedly more gentle way of games, flashcards and so on used today is actually more painful because it drags  the memorization for a longer time, and you get kids who know how to multiply 367 X 328 but make mistakes because they do not know 6X3.  Sit down and repeat X6 a million times and then you know it and you are done.[/quote]

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