Thinking in groups help them understand multiplication better. So if your child knows the answer to 3 x 4 is 12, but cannot remember the answer to 4 x 4, they will just need to add 4 to 12 to get the answer.ĭuring exams, your child will still be able to find out the answer even if they have forgotten some of their times tables. Students usually learn the 3 times tables this way: Let's take the 3 times tables, for example. When you think of it this way, learning the Times Tables makes sense.
(The number must all be the same before we can use it to multiply.) Multiplying means repeated addition of a number. 5 + 5 + 5 has the same meaning as 3 x 5 (3 groups of 5).or we can multiply the number of groups by the number of flowers in one group (3 groups x 5 flowers).add the flowers within the groups (5 + 5 + 5).
Essentially, to multiply numbers is to add groups of a number.įor example, if we have three groups of five flowers and we need to find the total number of flowers, we can either:
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