Comments on: Learning x9 Facts

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:06:19 +0000

I love the projects you and Sprite do to learn! I will definitely be gleaning many of our activities from you as our kids grow older!
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By: Belinda

Belinda — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:05:12 +0000

I think the finger trick is great. It helped me as a child and is helping my daughter now too. Eventually you can “see” your hands in your mind and so automatically take the number before for the 10 and know how many fingers would be left up on the right.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:34:46 +0000

My boys are still skip counting in their heads from the Skip
Count Kids Bible Heroes CD. We need to work on the flash cards more so the answers will be more automatic!
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By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:58:59 +0000

Just my 2 cents – I taught Alex the “fingers trick” several years ago -and am now frustratingly trying to break this habit. She relied so much on her fingers that I don’t think she would have caught on if she’d made a mistake. And, I just didn’t feel she understood what she was doing.

She also learned a bunch of skip couting songs last year and I’m trying to ‘unteach those’, too, and instead teach her to just memorize the facts. I won’t the answers to just ‘pop’ out of her! And, we’re working on it.
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By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:33:02 +0000

Thank you, Jimmie, for another wonderful and useful idea! We’ll be using this one, too!
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By: Kris @ Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers

Kris @ Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:07:14 +0000

Okay, confession time, *I* have never noticed that particular pattern before…or, maybe I have, but I’ve just completely forgotten that I ever noticed it. That’s entirely possible. At any rate, I love this idea, too, and can see it helping my kiddos. We’re going to borrow this one and the idea for the 8’s.

I have heard and shown the kids the finger trick for the 9’s that Makita mentioned. Megan really likes that one.
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By: Makita

Makita — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:37:44 +0000

The one with the fingers…
Hold out your hands showing 10 fingers.
If you multiply 9 x 5 for example, put down the fifth finger (your left thumb). The fingers still extended on the left of your thumb are 4. The fingers to the right of your thumb are 5. 9 x 5 = 45.

9 x 7. Put down your right index/pointer finger. On the left you have 6. On the right you have 3. 9 x 7 = 63.

Works for all the 9s.

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By: Melissa Telling

Melissa Telling — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:45 +0000

Another 9 trick is that the first number of the answer is one less than the number you are multiplying 9 by, and he two digits of the answer added together will eqaul 9. So, 4 X 9 = 36 (three is one less than four and three plus six (36) equals nine.

There is also a trick you can do with your fingers, but I can’t ever remember that one.
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By: Cristal

Cristal — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:48:15 +0000

I love these idea’s you are giving about learning times tables. My 10 yr old has barely started knowing these (we are still working on knowing our + and – ) thanks so much!
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