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I use the same technique as TrainedMonkey and it has worked really well for me. I actually have a great dislike for the rote memorization of multiplication tab

by dyadic 12y ago

I use the same technique as TrainedMonkey and it has worked really well for me. I actually have a great dislike for the rote memorization of multiplication tables. During school I had everything up to 12 * 12 burned into my brain, but it was as words rather than numbers and wholly sequential. So, when asked 7 * 8 I would have to run through the whole thing up to that point in my mind - "seven times one is one, seven times two is fourteen, ..., seven times eight is fiftysix" - before I reached the answer and could speak "fiftysix" to show I knew it.

tcoppi 12y ago
I computed my multiplication tables this exact same way as the great-grandparent during grade and high school. I memorized the tables, but I had this same problem of having to sequentially run through them to compute anything. Eventually in college taking tons of math courses finally ingrained it in my head, but to this day I feel like I must have missed something when everyone else was doing their multiplication tables.