Math Student Help

I have an 11-year-old son who can’t seem to learn his multiplication tables. He is struggling in math. He is a smart kid and this is very frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas or tricks to help him? Thank you!

In most cases, 2x, 5x,and 10x are picked up easily enough so hopefully you don’t need to work too much on those.

As for the rest, it’s some boring drilling and a few tricks to spice things up a bit!

Try here:

http://www.multiplication.com/teach.htm

They have the basic methodology, the "take away the fear" philosophy and a bag of tricks to be used as needed.

Whatever you do, try to make sure your son doesn’t get paranoid about the tables. More kids fail math through brain paralysis based on fear than through any other reason. Find the things he knows and re-test them regularly so he gets lots of positive reinforcement all the time he’s doing the new and unfamiliar stuff. Celebrate EVERY small improvement and put the failures down to "Irrelevant brain farts" or something to make him discount them with a laugh. Motivate, reinforce and celebrate your way through this.

If it gets desperately bad and he really can’t manage the tables, take comfort in the fact that some really brilliant mathematicians didn’t ever master them either. Maths is about finding patterns, not about counting in straight lines.

But save the "It doesn’t matter" line for the VERY last resort.

what are good strategies to learning multiplication tables?

tell me how you learned plz and thanks for your time. OO and plz no flash cards option..

Get two 12-sided dice (buy on ebay) and roll them and multiply the two numbers. When you get really good, challenge a friend to play you and see if you can beat them.

I need 3 reasons why students should have to memorize multiplication facts. Can you help me out? All I need are 3 reasons and I’ll back it up and find evidence myself.

Three reasons why kids should memorize multiplication facts:
1. As they progress to more advanced math, they will need the basic knowledge of multiplication, which is simply repeated addition.
2. It will make computing numbers easier, because instead of adding over and over you could just multiply.
3. Memorizing multiplication earlier is better than being in a calculus class in high school and trying to memorize them then.

This question was on my test and I wanted to know if I got it right. The question was: True or false, an opening or closing parenthesis can be used to indicate multiplication. I guessed and put down false. Which is it, and if it is false, why? Thank you!

true

you can put a variable next to a number to indicate multiplication, such as 5a
it is the same thing as that, except you are using a number instead of a variable

say 5(5) was the multiplication problem
it could be written as 5 x 5 or 5(5).. same thing, it doesnt make a difference,

I am an adult and i was a very slow learner in school and i never got to learn division and only learned a little bit of multiplication. dose anyone have any sites i can go to to learn them online i am a student to become a medical assistant and i want to learn it. please help.

If you did not get this in grade school, you will probably not understand it from an online source. I suggest that you go to the nearest community college that has remedial mathematics courses.

I’d say multiplication, because I can multiply most numbers mentally instead of using scrap paper.

I can multiply in my head but I need paper and pencil to divide.

What are some patterns in the multiplication table? Please list a few..I already have 4 or 5 but need to see if i’m missing anything.

Thank you!!

Tens always have a zero at the end.
Elevens initially repeat the number being multiplied by.

I am doing division and multiplication homework. Its asking what a commutative property is…And i dont know what it is. PLEASE HELP ME OUT HERE PEOPLE!!!

commutative property is where:

a + b = b + a

or

ab = ba.

this does NOT work in division.

hope this helps!

Complete the statement using the given property.
9+(5×7) = Commutative property of multiplicaton
a) 9x(5+7)
b) 9+(7×5)
c) (9+5) x (9+7)
d) (5×7) =+9
Thank you all.

b.
the way my teacher made me remember which way commutative prop of multiplication was that think of ‘commuting’ and that if you can ‘travel on way on a multiplication problem (5×7) then you ‘commute’ back the other way just the same (7×5). The 9 is just there to throw you off haha

This is my rule to find the nth term rule for sequences like:
1,2,4,8,16,32,64
10,15, 22.5, 33.75, 50.63
1,4,16,64

First term x ((the method to get from one term to another) ^ (position-1))
The rule works but how is it simplified?
Does the rule work for all multiplication sequences??
Thanks

These are called ‘Geometric Series’ or ‘Geometric Sequences’

the formula is usually written

Tn = ar^(n-1)

where Tn is the VALUE of the Nth term
a = first term
r = the common ratio (the number you are multiplying by)
n = the position in the series

The rule can’t really be simplified past this, and yes, it does work for all Geometric Series.