The Multiplication Table

The Multiplication Table


A child’s way to learn it


This is a workbook to teach your childhow to associate numbers at the earliest age possible. Your child has to learn the multiplication table. And it’s a boring exercise in learning by rote; saying the numbers over and over, 8 x 8 etc., and it takes time.


Your child can forget about counting on fingers! Show each page in the book starting with the lowest two numbers (1 x 1=?) and work upwards. It’s better to start with the lowest numbers. Under the two numbers, the clue to the answer is shown with the correct number. Your child first reads the question out loud, “1 x 1 =?” then reads the clue, then gives the answer. Correlating the clue to the answer will reinforce it in your child’s memory. Remember what you had to go through to learn the multiplication table?


I know because I’m a tutor for remedial students who worked in the board of education system in New York City with 8 and 9 year olds; also in a small elementary school in Seneca, SC with 3rd graders helping them learn math, reading, and comprehension. I’ve seen their frustration and their lack of concentration

at their age.


I created a mnemonic device which associates each set of numbers with the answer. For example: 6 x 8 =? The clue: What is ½ of 8? The answer = 4; put it in front of the 8 and the answer = 48.


I’ve done this with the whole table of 144 multiplication questions, supplying the

and the answer. Then I tested it out with children with whom I worked in class with

were learning the table by rote, and they learned the whole table in ½ the time and

greater accuracy than any other students. My system works!


Association is the way all of us learn to remember faces, names, numbers – anything, and that applies to the multiplication table.


If you say multiply 5 x 3, you are saying that a set of 5 things added together 3 times (5+5+5) or a set of 3 things added together 5 times (3+3+3+3+3). By convention, the first number (multiplicand) is the size of the set and the second number (multiplier) is the times the set is repeated. So, 5X3 means 5 things are

added together 3 times (5+5+5). Now that you know the reasoning to the madness of learning the table, make it easy for your child and buy the book now.