Learning Times Tables

It is so much better NOT to memorize them but to have her understand them in a concrete way. At my son's Montessori, they used a concept of chains and squares to learn multiplication - which when they truly see what it is - is something children can do at 4-6 years of age. There are specific Montessori materials for learning this concept but this website seems to have printables and demonstrate the concepts. When she can see, feel and manipulate numbers, she will know them. My son did Montessori through kindergarten. The kindergartners were pretty much all multiplying, understood cubes of numbers up to 10 (which cubed is 1000) and could do long division in small groups. He is so so so far ahead of his classmates in a top rated public school because he 'sees' the numbers.

http://blog.montessoriprintshop.com/2012/02/24/skip-count...

Maybe go at it from the addition angle. Make sure she knows 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, etc and show her with a picture or objects like Legos or something that 2+ 2 is the same as 2 x2 or 2 groups of 2 things each and so on. And then memorize, memorize, memorize but at least she will know what she is doing and why.

To add to Andra's answer just Google schoolhouse rock multiplication. We've used these tons of times and they ARE fun!

If you've got a video store close by, see if they have a copy of Schoolhouse Rock. There is a song on it about the multiplication table. I still hear it anytime I have to multiply and I learned it more than 30 years ago. Lots of other great learning songs too.

My daugther did that. I found multipication.com to be a great resource. They give the kids tests that help them to remember.

not really a question of "learning" them so much as memorizing them. I had a teacher in I think it was 4th grade who made it fun. she would give us the sheet with the table we were learning in your case it is 2's. so you do the whole 2x1 is 2, 2x2 is 4 etc. just have her recite them. do them on paper a little later when she has it in her head about the reciting them. our teacher would have us come up and do it with a timer after we had memorized them. she then introduced the actual numbers on paper and with obects. if it is in her memory to see the problems on paper she will do fine

When my kids started times tables, I took a dry-erase marker to the square tiles in the bathroom. I made an entire times tables right in front of the toilet. Every time they went into the bathroom they were faced with it. It also helped dive home the concept of area.

There are a ton of games online to help kids. My son has been using multiplication.com. You can choose to learn the 2's by themselves or it tests you on groups or all of them. There are also other websites that have games to help you learn. This is the only thing that has helped my son. Good luck.

I first taught my sons how to "skip count", 2-4-6-8-etc.; 3-6-9-12-etc. Then I would have them write out the numbers (skip counted). Once they mastered skip counting, I then introduced the multiplying. I would have them write 1-10 and beside those numbers the skip counted numbers (1-2, 2-4, 3-6, etc.) and we would talk out loud the multiplying; 2x1=2; 2x2=4 etc. Doing it out of order and playing games helps to reinforce the concept.