Memorization

[dcjlkplus3]

This year memory work is going so much better for us. I read all of their poems onto my mp3 player (it has a microphone), then I can put it onto the computer and label it correctly. This is working so well, I have been doing this with their bible verses and history "stuff" as well as grammar rules and for my oldest it just occurred to me to add a couple of latin verb lists (sum, est, es, etc.).

 

I was reading the thread about memorizing math facts. Do you think learning math facts orally like that would help a child to learn them, or is that something better seen than heard? What do you think?

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[Ray]

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I was reading the thread about memorizing math facts. Do you think learning math facts orally like that would help a child to learn them, or is that something better seen than heard? What do you think?"

 

Absolutely, one of things we used was something called KUKUhttp://japanese.about.com/b/2010/08/25/kuku-memorizing-multiplication-tables.htm

 

 

 

it is effective because it reduces the impact on working memory by trimming down the wording to bare minimums.

Example; “nine times nine equals eighty-oneâ€, doing it Japanese style becomes; “nine,nine,eighty-oneâ€. Well as close as you can get using English.

 

 

 

Good idea with the MP files optical is the next floppy.

[tarana]

Asian way of leraning Multiplication tables worked best for my girls too. They had their tables (1-11) memorised when were 7 yrs old.

Skip counting was a total failure!

 

We usesd

Nine Ones is Nine

Nine Twos is Eighteen

Nine Threes is Twenty-Seven

 

We used a sing-song voice & used a rhythm.