How should we teach the advanced Number Facts?
See the previous episode of the podcast for the first five strategies for teaching multiplication number facts. This episode deals with the more difficult facts, up to 12x12. If the recommended sequence is followed, as students progress through the facts, they have fewer and fewer to learn, since many will have been covered in previous sets. For example, when learning the 6x number facts in this system, students have already learned these facts, and so only have to revise them:
- 2x6
- 10x6
- 5x6
- 3x6
- 4x6
- 0x6
- 11x6
- 6x6
The recommended strategies in this and the previous podcast episodes will assist the busy teacher to systematically teach multiplication number facts in a way that makes sense to students, by helping them to concentrate on characteristics of the numbers they are learning about.
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