Wednesday, 25 May 2011, Day 183/365.
JJ’s teacher told us a good way of teaching a kid their times tables.
It involves creating them on the computer, or you could do it by hand, and cutting them out so they’re all individual like in the image above.
Then you put them all in a jar and pull them out one by one and ask the question, eg 10 times 1. If your child doesn’t answer straight away it goes back in the same jar.
If they do answer straight away it goes in another jar.
I guess the idea is repetition so that it eventually sinks in.
For me, it’s remembering to do it with all the other stuff I have to do as a single parent.
Now, for a way to get a kid to learn how to spell!