2. Carry flash cards on your person and go over them while waiting at the
bus stop, dentist's office, ticket line. Throw each away, with ceremony,
once it is mastered.
3. Cooperate with someone else who needs to learn them and have
reciprocal quiz sessions. Give each other presents when each is mastered.
4. Do lots and lots and lots of practice. Don't stop practicing even when
they are mastered.
5. Don't expect it to be easy. If it were, you'd know them already.
John M. Flanigan <johnf@hawaii.edu> The equation is the final arbiter.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics --Werner Heisenberg
Kapi'olani Community College The scoreboard is the final arbiter.
4303 Diamond Head Road --Bill Walton
Honolulu HI 96816 History is the final arbiter.
(808) 734-9371 --Edward Gibbon
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Laura Bracken wrote:
> We've spent a lot of time talking about development of number sense in our
> students, an essential focus. Turning the other way, I have some students
> who need concrete suggestions for improving their ability to memorize and
> retrieve information e.g. the multiplication tables. They understand the
> concept of multiplication but just can't remember the facts. Usually I
> figure that a student who hasn't learned the tables by the time they are 20
> is probably not going to do so. I encourage them to use the compensating
> strategies they have developed such as finger counting and counting up by
> intervals. They simply seem to have a deficit in their ability to retrieve
> isolated information such as 8 times 7 is 56 directly from long-term
> memory. Occasionally, however, I have a student who never had the chance to
> learn them (moving or something traumatic or wasn't developmentally ready
> at the time) and really wants to learn the math facts now.
>
> Other than flashcards, does anybody have any ideas?
>
> --Laura
>
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