Maths homework help please

The way I would do it would be to think of 6x8= 48 because that is 5x8=40+8 equals 48 then add another 8 48+8 =56.

I usually get there in the end!

keepingquiet

This is an old thread but anyway I never learned my times tables and now working out things like 7x8 in my head takes me ages!

If you know 7 × 4 = 28, double it

I don’t know if this would be helpful. We used Cuisinaire blocks to teach basic concepts of maths to our children They are I cm to 10 cm wooden blocks, each being a different colour. They are so good at taking the mystery out if maths. For instance line up 5 10 cm blocks = 50 cm. Then see how many 5 cm of blocks it takes to be the same legth = 10. You can do adding, subtracting, multiplication etc. we passed them on to the GC who had fun with them.

This is an old thread but anyway I never learned my times tables and now working out things like 7x8 in my head takes me ages!

You can explain /point out to children that many of the times tables are magic.

4 x 12 = 48
12 x 4 = 48.
2x 24 = 48
It's blindingly obvious to people who know all their tables and confidently manage numbers... but for those who don't, often very surprising andenlightening.

You can play games at home to illustrate this, using a bowl of dried beans or pegs or beads

"Lets make 4 piles of 6 beans. How many altogether?
Now show me 6 x 4.
Now lest make them into 2 x 12.

12 x 2.. 3 x 8

Everyday life is full of ways to play with number. Set the table for dinner. How many people are coming to dinner? How many knives/forks.spoons/mats/glasses etc.

In the car, you can play countless games with the numberplate of the car in front (multiply the first two numbers), "add the first two numbers". etc

From a very early age I thoroughly recommend playing dominoes, and dice board games like snakes and ladders, snap with an ordinary card pack, so that even small children acquire a grasp of counting and matching, number recognition etc.

I was going to say that Magenta, it ll never let me on old threads always says they ve ‘moooved’ I don’t understand how people find them

This thread is over eight and a half years old. Presumably Ginny42's DGS has mastered his times tables by now. He is probably in his teens.

I learnt times tables 70-odd years ago and have never forgotten them in all this time. But these ingenious ways of understanding numbers were never a feature in those years. I loved languages and understood them as patterns whereas I never found the patterns of maths. I passed Lower Maths easily without loving the subject. It was a matter of learning and applying the formulae without any depth of understanding.Is it too late now?

zarabolen

Pay someone to do your assignment sounds like cheating to me. Are you really recommending that?

For the 9 times table you can take one from the number of times and add the number that adds up to 9.
eg. 7x9 So take one away from 7 which makes 6 and you need 3 to make make 9 so answer is 63.
5x9 (take 1 away from 5) that leaves 4 and 5 is needed to make 9 so answer is 45.

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My younger son never did learn his multiplication table Said he didn’t need to. He has a maths degree from Imperial College

butterandjam

Look for commercial games you can play with them

www.mysmallworld.co.uk/products/multiplication-cogs-wheels-game

I think he might have got the hang of it by now. He’s had 8years to practice

Look for commercial games you can play with them

www.mysmallworld.co.uk/products/multiplication-cogs-wheels-game

I’ve reported this thread, because of all the repeated spamming.
The hints on remembering tables are always useful, but the only way of doing better in random question tests is to practise random questions.
We had a book full of strips of questions, starting with a mix of one table, then moving on to a mix of different tables. The aim was for the child to improve on its own score, not to be compared with others.
Lots of apps test random tables too-Table Mountain for example, but the app needs to
focus on the answers, not the game.

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