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Times Tables are the most basic building blocks of maths and we all have to know them. When your children start school, it will be the first things taught to them. How well your children learn the times tables has a very direct effect on how they progress in maths and other subjects at school.

Your children’s confidence can be boosted massively by learning the multiplication tables properly and accurately.

The majority of children do not learn their multiplication times tables properly and as a consequence, many lose confidence in maths. This lack of confidence can spread to other subjects. Children may just end up losing interest in maths, and no longer make an effort becoming unreceptive in other subjects too, and all because they have not been taught in a way that makes times tables easy to remember.

The question is why do some children learn multiplication tables properly and easily remember them, why others do not.

At school, the system teaches multiplication times tables in a traditional rote manner, and this is a long and time consuming method. Children, on the other had, think and behave in a different way. They have a vivid and colourful imagination, are a bundleful of energy, and find it difficult to focus on one top for too long, which in turn can be very disruptive for rote learning .

If a simple, easy to use method is used, that also mirrors the way a child works, this may be the way forward.

Rote learning is a very linear method for teaching multiplication times tables. The problem with it is that the answers are also retrieved by your child from their memory in a linear fashion This method is time consuming and it takes effort to get to the correct answer.

If getting to the answer becomes, or seems to be, too much effort, your children will simply give up and not do it anymore. At this point, it becomes harder and harder to effectively learn the times tables and the confidence in the ability to learn them is lost.

Schools have no choice but to follow a set cirriculum, and a very traditional method of teaching times tables is used, their lessons are not designed to try anything different.

We know that concentration over a period of time is not easy for children and school lessons are not designed around this. This can often lead to concentration problems.

Some parents understandably become frustrated at their children not being able to remember the simplest of tables. This often results in negative comments which can be discouraging for children, and they end up feeling bad at maths, and this reduces their confidence

Belief and confidence needs to be built from the beginning. This can easily be done with multiplication times tables and as they are learned early on they are therefore an ideal place to start building confidence in maths. Maths is a very simple subject in terms of answers – they are either right or wrong, making it very easy for children, and the more correct answers they get, the greater their level of self confidence – a very good motivator for confidence building.

Your children should be able to recall their times tables instantly – without working out the answer in their head – especially if they use a new method to learn and recall them instantly and correctly – you will see a positive tranformation in confidence and the belief that they are now good at maths. Confident children are happy children. Happy children enjoy learning far more.

A strong and positive attitudes is created, along with good habits not only in maths, but also in other subjects. The importance of this cannot be under estimated – create confidence and motivation starting with the times tables.

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