Printable multiplication worksheets

Printable multiplication worksheets are great help to enhance their learning and they are mostly downloaded free on school worksheet section. Once your child learns to count forwards and backwards (i.e., adding and subtracting, respectively), it's time to introduce him or her to multiplication. Multiplication is just another way to count. But, it makes counting easier and quicker.

There are many approaches to understanding printable multiplication worksheets. Perhaps the easiest way to start is by grouping items. Things you have around the house are great for this purpose (e.g., money, pens, game pieces, shoes, apples). Use shoes, for example, to show your child how to count by twos. You can use a deck of cards to show counting by fours (each value set). Chair and table legs can also be used to count by fours. Fingers and toes are great tools for learning how to count by fives. You can use pizza slices to show groupings of sixes or eights or your silverware/flatware to show groupings of eight. Money is an excellent tool for grouping by tens. As you do this, point out to your child that two times four is the same as four times two (commutative property).

Once you have shown your child these "natural" groupings, it's time to learn the multiplication table. Even in these days with calculators at the ready, nothing beats good mental math (i.e., knowing one's multiplication table).

You'll find an online printable multiplication chart or table posted at School worksheet section. Print this out so you can use it as a learning tool and to keep track of what your child has mastered.

You can also use multiplication flash cards to foster memorization. The key is to start with printable multiplication worksheets since this reinforces the counting linkage. Start with the ones and zeroes and then move to the twos. Once these are mastered, jump to the fours. You can use this to show your child skip counting (i.e., not counting by twos but counting by every other two). You can show how this makes groups of groups. Finally go to the 8 times table (i.e., skip counting the twos table by every fourth value or the fours times table by every second value).Next, go to the fives and tens tables using the same approach. Finally do the threes, sixes, and nines as a set of multiples.

At this stage, you should be able to go back to your child and showcase the commutative concept again. In the process, you will discover that the only multiplication value not yet learned within the ten by ten multiplication table is seven by seven.Suddenly the "I can't learn the seven times table; it's too hard" vanishes.

Your child can also practice what he or she has learned at web sites such as Multiplication Game. The game (free component available) provides for needed drill and practice.

School worksheet section offers free printable multiplication worksheets. You can design the sheet to key on certain parts of the multiplication table and control the number of problems you generate.

There are other ways to understand the multiplication table (e.g., rule of nine, multiply by ten minus one), but the goal is to get the table memorized with linkages to the real world. Your child will NOT become a good multiplier just by learning the mechanics. Once multiplication is mastered, it's a lot easier to start tackling more abstract concepts with your child.

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