This is something I’ve noticed with my own girls too, and it’s the reason why I’m making an effort to make times table practice more fun for them. The picture of the fun experience on my mind’s table is far easier to find than just facts alone. I’m far more likely to remember things if they’re attached to fun experiences. When you go looking for those times tables you put diligently on the table 30 years ago you have to sift through a mountain of rubbish to find them. Other things get squashed, damaged, lost and mixed up and you end up feeling confused most of the time. With the table being so crowded things start falling over the edge never to be found again. Soon the table is so chock full of stuff you can’t find anything on it, yet you still keep piling more and more things on your table. As we grow and learn we put stuff the table (knowledge, facts, random thoughts and life experiences). I’ll give you the fitting analogy that the mind itself is like a table. When I was in primary school we were made to recite the times tables like a class full of parrots – as you can imagine it was as boring as anything! Twenty years on (or is it thirty now?) I don’t remember them very well at all. Multiplication tables are one of those essential things that all kids are expected to learn by heart. These times table spinners have been designed to help kids practice, reinforce and learn their multiplication tables with a fun STEM twist.
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