subject: Times tables are easier for children to learn on the go than when sitting still [print this page] Hold on a moment. Children need to move in order to learn the times tables? I can hear you say football, basket ball, netball, cycling, drama, school plays, yes I understand movement is involved with learning all these, but surely not times tables.
It sounds extraordinary but the best way to learn times tables involves moving about. Children naturally want to move.
When you think about children learning the times tables do you think of children moving about? Most likely not, I'll bet that when you learned them you were sitting down, wouldn't you rather have been able to move.
Being immobile is therefore not the greatest way for children to learn times tables particularly when there is another way to learn.
Moving produces feelings and emotions in people and this is particularly the case for children.
In children's case, it makes them happy and if children are happy they are much more likely to be motivated to work harder and for longer.
If you could find a way of bringing movement into learning times tables, this will improve your children's motivation.
So, in what way can you bring movement to learning times tables?
In fact, there is a way and I want to explain how to do this.
The first thing to do is abandon the rote learning that so many children are forced to use when learning times tables.
Here is an example with the three times table: 1x3 is 3, 2x3 is 6, 3x3 is 9, right up to 12x3 is 36.
When learning times tables children don't want something boring like rote learning they need something that is fun and entertaining and that makes them very easy to remember. The pointer to all this is doing what the World Memory Champions do to help them remember.
Memory Champions link what they want to remember to locations in their imaginations.
Times tables are easy for children to learn when they do this using real images and real locations.
In this case, the images can be created for the numbers themselves. These images can be placed in various locations within the home.
More difficult times tables can be put in more unusual places within the home.
What if you put the images on a toilet, I'll bet your children will laugh at this and remember the difficult table.
This is where movement comes in to make learning times tables fun. You get your children to move around the home looking at the locations and the drawings of the tables. This makes learning simple and fun.
You will recall that movement and motion creates emotion and in children a lot of happiness and therefore the motivation to learn. Movement and happiness and motivation are now linked to instant learning of times tables.
Other areas of maths can be learned in a similar way.
Times tables are easier for children to learn on the go than when sitting still
By: Tony Lazar
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