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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really?  Flash cards at home?  Barf.  I agree with 15:34; I try to help my preschool-aged child learn through fun, life activities - cooking, gardening, helping with chores, trips to museums, hikes, etc.  He gets 8 hours of early learning 5 days a week at preschool.  Anything "structured" over and above that is overkill and tantamount to robbing your child of their childhood.  Let the damn kids play.

I suggest all you flash card people read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Never-Used-Flashcards-Learn--/dp/1594860688/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360166085&sr=1-1&keywords=don%27t+flash+cards[/quote]

Yes, you are right - for a preschool age child it's not needed but this thread was not talking about preschool kids.  And yes,  to memorize basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division my school age child definitely needed flash cards.  It is rote memorization and some method was needed.  Flash cards worked for her.  Other kids might do things like write the facts down over and over, memorize them from a sheet of paper, hear them once and just know them, etc.  
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