Get the Facts! Multiplication Strategies

Multiplication strategies for efficient fact memorization

Many students struggle to master multiplication facts. Memorization is often difficult for kids who have dyslexia. Teachers and parents spend a lot of time on them — starting late second grade, working hard in third, and still focusing on them in 4th. After that, if not sooner, people just give up, and hand the child a chart of facts. But there’s no better way to kill a child’s future in mathematics than giving up on fast fact recall. Think about it. How can you easily handle multiplying, dividing, and reducing fractions; calculating area; understanding percents; averaging figures; and on and on. If you can’t quickly come up with the needed multiplication fact, it all bogs down.

It doesn’t have to be so hard! Help your kids start this new year with confident mastery of facts. There are so many cool strategies in my Get the Facts! book that can help get them off to a fast start, without tedious, tearful attempts at memorizing. Strategies build their confidence to continue with the small number of remaining combinations. Don’t give up, get ready. Do it with strategies that work and always lead to the correct answer. Get the Facts is great for 3rd graders, but perfect for 8th too. If your student hasn’t learned the facts, try these strategies!

65 page book includes strategy explanations followed by reproducible practice sheets

Learning is easier and faster when a strategy helps a student get the right answer every time without guessing. Guessing creates multiple weak alternate brain pathways rather than one strong, correct response. With practice applying the strategy, fact automaticity develops.

Sample pages are visible here. One is a practice sheet for the 9's strategy, used after the concept is taught. The other is one of the introductory sheets for the even sixes strategy. Your students will be excited to discover how easy they are to do, once you teach them the "tricks." Suddenly, they can easily complete a practice sheet that looks hard, but turns out to be easy.

"It's a straight-forward approach that gave my students a sense of mastery."
— Jen M., third grade teacher