Comments on: First Aid for Multiplication http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/ The Official Blog of MathMojo.com - helping public school, homeschooling, unschooling students, parents, teachers and adults learn math with easy and effective methods. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: jasmine http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-13315 jasmine Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:46:30 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-13315 im going 2 5th grade and i still need its just so hard and it stared when i was in 1st grade we had to learn our dubles and that was hard 2 now what? im horrible at math im going 2 5th grade and i still need its just so hard and it stared when i was in 1st grade we had to learn our dubles and that was hard 2 now what? im horrible at math

]]> By: Tips for memorizing multiplication facts « Dead Bunny Educational http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-3829 Tips for memorizing multiplication facts « Dead Bunny Educational Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:59:17 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-3829 [...] Tips for memorizing multiplication facts Filed under: Math Tidbits — kirylin @ 7:36 pm Last month, I encouraged everyone to learn their facts. Brian Foley responded by encouraging the teaching of memorization, but he failed to include a link to his own post on memorizing multiplication facts. [...] [...] Tips for memorizing multiplication facts Filed under: Math Tidbits — kirylin @ 7:36 pm Last month, I encouraged everyone to learn their facts. Brian Foley responded by encouraging the teaching of memorization, but he failed to include a link to his own post on memorizing multiplication facts. [...]

]]> By: Warren Pugh (Pew) http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-520 Warren Pugh (Pew) Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:13:51 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-520 Greetings, Your fifty percent figure has to be close. Tragic. Your inference, whether intentional or otherwise, that poor spelling may be one of several culprits is valid. Dyslexia or whatever the malady; a good teacher will recognize there is "A" problem and commence working on it in conjunction with others more qualified to recognize these culprits. In the meantime we must persevere and not miss a trick. The real trick however is recognizing a fault and being able to talk a child into challenging it. If they trust us they will try anything. Warren Pugh Greetings, Your fifty percent figure has to be close. Tragic. Your inference, whether intentional or otherwise, that poor spelling may be one of several culprits is valid. Dyslexia or whatever the malady; a good teacher will recognize there is “A” problem and commence working on it in conjunction with others more qualified to recognize these culprits. In the meantime we must persevere and not miss a trick. The real trick however is recognizing a fault and being able to talk a child into challenging it. If they trust us they will try anything.

Warren Pugh

]]> By: Kim http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-59 Kim Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:16:32 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/03/02/first-aid-for-multiplication/#comment-59 Thanks for stopping by my blog, Brian. Yours is wonderful too! Although I may take issue with this post a bit, because poor spelling and difficulty memorizing simple facts after years of exposure often point to a learning disability such as dyslexia. Dyslexics often understand math concepts quite well but still get numbers reversed or have a hard time memorizing sequences because their memories need to assign significance to an object before deciding where to file it in their brains.Therefore they are slower at multiplication because they must calculate in their heads every time. Years of repeatedly saying the times tables will bore them, and if they lay off for a week or two they may completely forget them anyway. I'm not saying the girl who emailed you was dyslexic, but she still might benefit from a system like Times Tales which is a series of stories that help kids recall multiplication facts. I'll be back keep blogging! I really want to watch that video you posted but for some reason my sound card isn't working today. Brian's Note: This is a great point. Sorry I didn't even think of that spelling etc. as possibly dyslexic. My goof! There are interesting Ideas to help with dyslexic/dyscalculic people. I will post some of the ones I know (from experience some symptoms that are similar to dyslexia which I deal with myself) soon. Thanks for the heads up, Kim! Thanks for stopping by my blog, Brian. Yours is wonderful too! Although I may take issue with this post a bit, because poor spelling and difficulty memorizing simple facts after years of exposure often point to a learning disability such as dyslexia. Dyslexics often understand math concepts quite well but still get numbers reversed or have a hard time memorizing sequences because their memories need to assign significance to an object before deciding where to file it in their brains.Therefore they are slower at multiplication because they must calculate in their heads every time. Years of repeatedly saying the times tables will bore them, and if they lay off for a week or two they may completely forget them anyway. I’m not saying the girl who emailed you was dyslexic, but she still might benefit from a system like Times Tales which is a series of stories that help kids recall multiplication facts.

I’ll be back keep blogging! I really want to watch that video you posted but for some reason my sound card isn’t working today.

Brian’s Note: This is a great point. Sorry I didn’t even think of that spelling etc. as possibly dyslexic. My goof! There are interesting Ideas to help with dyslexic/dyscalculic people. I will post some of the ones I know (from experience some symptoms that are similar to dyslexia which I deal with myself) soon. Thanks for the heads up, Kim!

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