Mathematics: either you love it or you hate it. The relationship we have with them as children will greatly influence the relationship we have with mathematics. From home parents can use some tricks to teach children math In day to day. This way they will become familiar with them while playing and learn without realizing it.
Through play you also learn
We have already seen it in many articles, children learn mainly through play. It is a playful and fun way to learn. We can use games so that children learn mathematics in an enjoyable way.
There are children who have a harder time and others who take it great. Above all, multiplication tables are more difficult for them because it is a matter of memory. But there are some tricks that can help you and us too.
Tricks to teach children math
- Encourage them to have a taste for mathematics. If they only make you memorize it is usually boring and does not have anything motivating. But if they explain them to you well and show you the usefulness they have, you start to see the fun. Knowing mathematics can save us a lot of time in life if we know how to apply it well.
- Play games that have numbers. Choose games that have numbers or if you don't have them, make them up. Use your imagination to spark yours. Make the numbers present in his games so that he sees it as something fun.
- Use any physical element. Use items such as beads, blocks, or cards allows neural connections to be strengthened and easier to remember.
- Let them pay.Children like to pay. Encourage them to calculate how much they have to pay back knowing what they have to pay and when they pay. This is how they exercise memory.
Multiplication tables
Show him first the simplest tables that are that of 0 (every number multiplied by 0 is 0), the table of 1 (every number multiplied by 1 gives the same number) and the 10 table (every number multiplied with 10 must be added a 0 at the end). For the other boards you can use the songs (which is how most of us learned them) to learn them or use these tricks.
- 2 times table: you just have to look at the number that multiplies by 2 and add that same number to itself. Example: 2 × 4 = 8 (4 + 4 = 8), 2 × 7 = 14 (7 + 7 = 14).
- 3 times table: We write the numbers from 1 to 9 in three columns from bottom to top. We have 3 rows left, the first we will put a 0, the second a 1 and the third a 2. We put that number in front of the numbers in each row and rape! We already have the results of the table of 3, seen from top to bottom from left to right.
- 4 times table: Draw a 5-pointed star and list each vertex and the space between them from 0 to 9. Following the path from 0, they will give us the results of the 4 table from 4 × 0 = 0.
- 5 times table: we look at the even numbers that are multiplied by 5, we calculate half of that number and add 0 to it. Very easy! For odd numbers, the same number minus 1 is subtracted, and then a 5 is added.
- 6 times table: we also look at the even numbers, that will be the second number of the result and the first will be its half. For odd numbers we add 6 to the previous result.
- 7 times table: we write in 3 rows the numbers from 1 to 9 starting from top to bottom. Then we put the numbers from 0 to 6 from right to left from top to bottom, repeating 2 and 4.
- 8 times table: from 8 × 2 put the numbers from 1 to 8 in the results, repeating 4. And now to complete the second number we do the same but going up from 8 × 9 and starting with 2 and from 2 to 2 (2,4,6,8,0,2,4,6 , XNUMX).
- 9 times table: for this table we can use your handss. Our fingers will be numbers from 1 to 10, which go from left to right. If it is 9 × 1 we lower the first number and we see that we have 9 fingers left, the result is 9. If it is 9 × 2 we lower the second number and we count the fingers that we have on the right that are 8 and the one on the left is 1 .
Because remember ... with these tricks we can make children do not have a mania for mathematics.