Questions are the answer to multiplication tables

Location, location, location!

No I’m not talking property, I’m talking learning multiplication tables and how questions linked to location is the way for your children to learn their times tables.

What questions should you ask?

To test our children when learning multiplication tables we ask questions all beginning with the word ‘WHAT’. 

For example:

What is 6 x 8?

What is 9 x 6?

It seems obvious that asking ‘WHAT’ this is the right thing to ask.  

It is ‘a’ right thing to ask, however, there is another question, a very powerful question that can be asked that will aid and massively increase children’s ability in remembering their multiplication tables.

If you want to be the best in life then the thing to do is to learn from those who are the best at something. We do not need to reinvent the wheel all we need to do is find and copy outstanding people, role models, and learn from what they do.

So if you want to remember something why not use as your role model the very best people that there at remembering. Who are these people? You’ve probably seen these people on TV, they are the memory champions, such as Dominic O’Brian, those who can seemingly effortlessly remember dates, places, people, countless facts, massive lists of objects.

How do they do it and can we learn from them and apply that knowledge to help our children with their tables? You bet we can and in a very easy way that will make a huge difference!

Location is the answer!

The way these champions remember is to link the facts, objects etc to a location, to a place. They imagine the fact or object to be at a particular location and if they have got to remember a sequence they turn that sequence into a sequence of places or a journey. 

These experts then remember the locations or journey and this enables them to recall all those facts and astound us all.

When learning tables in The Learning Well™ and Times Table Maths.com, we do not rote learn as most people do because multiplication tables are not learned well this way. If you ask a child a multiplication table, very often the response is to go through all the multiplication tables from the beginning until they get to the one being asked. Have you seen this? We have on countless occasions. What is needed is an instant recall method.

We use the idea of locations and places to help children remember in an instant, in a split second.  

So we use printable math sheets that we call memory sheets and place them in various locations. Children then remember the location and their multiplication tables easily and with instant recall. 

So, coming back to this idea of questions, we said that ‘what’ was ‘a’ right question and now there is another question, a very powerful question to ask, and that is ‘WHERE’?

Finally

For your children to learn their tables questions are definitely the answer to multiplication tables, but not just WHAT, also the very powerful question; WHERE?

Children using this method have achieved outstanding results with minimum effort.