How to learn multiplication table with a child

The multiplication table is held in school by second-class pupils, who are 8-9 years old. And in the summer before the school, many parents are concerned about how to learn the multiplication table with their child.

I must say that most of the children at this age can easily remember it by the usual method of "cramming." However, there are quite a few guys who do not have mechanical memory, and because of this they have problems with studying the multiplication table.

Nevertheless, if the mechanical is not sufficiently developed, then the emotional and imaginative memory should be better. Hence, the process of memorizing should be built on this basis. From my own experience I can give several tips on how to learn the multiplication table quickly and playfully.

1. Associations. What does it mean? For each digit, you should choose a stable association, that is, choose the appropriate image. For example, the figure "2" is like a swan. To do this, the child must choose the associative image himself, then it will really be easy for him to remember. Then you give the child a simple example of multiplication, and you can still work and come up with a story or story yourself. It may seem uncomfortable and uninteresting for you, but children with their developed emotional and imaginative thinking not only easily remember the created images, but also reproduce them quickly.

2. In the game. The child is difficult to "cram", he quickly gets tired, and you suffer, not knowing how to learn the multiplication table? Try then to study it in the game. For this purpose it is necessary to draw cards with examples and answers. Then from the total number of cards, select ten pieces in which there is a multiplication by one number, for example, by 4. Putting them all before the child, help him find what unites all these examples and answers.

3. Resting, doing. I will share with you how to learn the multiplication table in another fun way. Right during a walk with the child, while relaxing or sunbathing on the beach, think up to him the tasks and examples in which multiplication is used. Especially good if you tie them to life situations. Children really like it when they are given tasks. For example, how many cakes were eaten by his three friends with a list of names, if everyone ate one cup of cake. Gradually complicate your problems. There are a lot of options, just connect all the fantasy. And in the future the child will ask you to solve several such questions with him, when you are walking somewhere, and there is nothing to do especially. Just do not forget to praise the child, and even better, if you reward him with a prize, a candy, a chocolate medal or a walk on the sea on a banana, riding a swing, an attraction.

4. Psychologists and educators give their advice on how easy it is to learn the multiplication table-to do this from the end. Thus, it is easier and more qualitative to learn the multiplication table first by 9, then by 8, then by 7, and at the end by 6. Well, when you pass half the table, then your child will have nothing to learn further. It is important to ask the child to retell each column not only from the bottom up and from the top down as a rhyme, but also scatter, and also rearranging the factors in places.

5. It is interesting for children to use the simulators to study the multiplication table, which can be found and opened on the Internet. There you can study independently, and the child will be assessed by a computer.

It is common knowledge that children learn with pleasure in the game. Today's development kids are better than their parents. And if the child is healthy, then it will not be difficult for him to learn the multiplication table. But it's one thing to learn it, and quite another to learn half-jokingly, using a game or even a song: "Two times two is four." And if you can, then try to come up with a continuation of this text.