I recently discovered a new educational tool for multiplication and am excited to tell you all about it. I love how it was set up to teach memorization of the multiplication table through the different learning styles.
After spending a little while exploring the program /www.multiplication.com myself, I called my 7-year old daughter over to give it a test run. She spent about 30 minutes interacting with the program.
The program begins by picking a set from the multiplication table that you would like to learn. My daughter chose 2×6, 3×5 and 4×3. Each number was assigned a picture, two, for example, was a shoe and six was chicks. Then a silly story was played about a shoe and a chick being an elf. Through the story, visualizations and hands-on activity my daughter soon memorized the concept that 2×6=12.
I believe that understanding principles of math, how things work together, is more important than straight memorization. So I was delighted when I discovered this program includes a demonstration of how we reach our solutions than games to re-enforce the solutions she had memorized.
The program offers a few of the lessons for free and also worksheets, color pages and activities you can do off the computer to cement in the concepts.
We have decided to keep this in our curriculum for our multiplication section and though we are currently going to use the free version on a trial basis, I hope we will advance to the premium membership soon.
Let me know if you enjoyed this review. I would love to know what you would like to hear about! Comment below and I will see what I can do.
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