Using pictures to remember the times tables has become a popular method of
teaching the times tables. Instead of remembering the numbers, a student remembers a
picture that reminds them of the multiplication fact.
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What is GOOD
about using pictures to teach the times tables?
Teachers are having a high degree of success with the picture method.
Research tends to support this form teaching the times tables is widely used in
education. |
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What is BAD about
using pictures to teach the times tables?
This method works better when combined with other strategies. Unless you are
a creative artist you need to purchase this system. |
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What do we suggest?
Pictures combined with music or rhyming is very effective.
Memorize in Minutes: The Times Tables,
uses this method.
Teachers have found it
VERY
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Research has shown that pictures are easier to remember than numbers.
The problem comes with associating numbers with a pictures. There are a few
products that have done this.
Some ideas that help teaching the multiplication facts with
pictures:
- Have students make pictures out of the numbers one through nine. Using a certain
multiplication fact, they draw a picture with the answer as part of the picture.
Product Comparison - There are a few
excellent commercial products available that use pictures to teach the times tables.
See how teachers rate them.If you are interested in using
pictures to teach the times tables, you might want to look at
Memorize in Minute: The Times Tables.
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