My daughter hated math. If she could find a way to get out of working on it she would. Once we talked to her and figured out the problem was that she couldn’t understand multiplication tables, she felt better. So then we had to figure out what we needed to do to help her overcome the difficulties of multiplication and how to help her understand it.
We created her a multiplication table for her to work on and study and then we would quiz her anytime during the day. She never knew when she would get asked, just that is she got it write she got a gold star. Now you may wonder what good a gold star is for someone learning multiplication, but every time she got 20 stars she was able to have something she wanted. It could be she got to choose dinner or everyone had to play a game with her, something like that.
After 2 weeks of solid studying and testing she was able to go to school and aced the test that she got. Even today you can ask her a multiplication problem and she can figure it out in seconds. Repetition is key to helping children learn certain things, like how to pronounce letters and letter combinations. This is just another example of teaching by repetition and it is something that she will keep forever.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
