How To Teach Multiplication Tables

We all know that learning multiplication is an essential part of our child’s elementary education. Kids who have mastered multiplication gain a solid foundation in mathematics that will help them throughout middle school, high school and beyond. The following are few tips on how to teach multiplication tables to kids. Just like learning to walk before you can run, learning multiplication and memorizing the times tables are building blocks for other math topics taught in school – higher learning such as division, long multiplication, fractions and algebra. Kids who have not mastered their tables will very often fall behind in math (and other subjects that use math) and begin to loose confidence.   Knowing that multiplication facts is helpful not only in academics; we frequently use multiplication in our daily lives. Now let us how to teach multiplication tables to kids. First let the kids study a basic multiplication facts table. Draw their attention to the number patterns. Show kids how they can build a multiplication table using a 3×3 square. To build multiplication tables for odd numbers, write in the numbers 1 to 9 in the squares as shown below.         To build multiplication tables for even numbers, fill the boxes in multiples of  two as shown:       Finally guide kids to build a table of basic multiplication facts on a 9×9 square sheet of paper.   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 9 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81   Remember, time spent exploring math with kids will help the kid excel in other areas such as science, geography, music, art and problem solving. That is why it is important to know how to teach multiplication tables to kids.