Teach Your Children Tables

Teach Your Children Tables is the ultimate guide to improving your child's mathematical abilities. Written by a renowned education expert, this book provides a proven approach to teaching that will help you enable your child to master multiplication tables in less than half an hour, and solve problems like 96 x 97 faster than they could tap it into a calculator! This updated third edition includes new chapters on factors and playing with square numbers, plus tips for learning tables up to fifteen and beyond.

Children will learn that numbers can be fun while they improve their thinking skills, boost their confidence and self-esteem, learn problem-solving strategies, and set themselves up for lasting educational success.

People who excel at maths are not necessarily more intelligent; they just use better strategies than the rest of us. This book gives you the perspective and the strategies you need to improve your child's understanding of maths, and introduce them to techniques that will help them achieve better test results, whether it's the weekly quiz, NAPLAN, or scholarship or entrance exams.

Imagine helping your child:

• Perform lightning-quick calculations
• Discover easy methods of multiplication
• Learn the basic principles of mathematics
• Have fun playing with numbers

Excellent maths skills present a serious advantage, throughout school and beyond. Children who are good at maths get better grades, higher test scores, and are accepted into better schools. Maths-minded adults are more in demand professionally, in fields that pay better and provide more room for upward mobility. If you could give your child this kind of gift, why wouldn't you? Now you can—Teach Your Children Tables shows you how, and makes it feel like fun.

Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

Part I: Learning the method 1

1 Teach your child tables 3

2 Multiplication — getting started 9

3 Using a reference number 17

4 Multiplying numbers above and below the reference number 27

5 Checking your answers 35

6 Multiplication — more about the methods 45

7 A fun mathematical short cut — multiplying by 11 65

8 Factors 75

9 Multiplying using two reference numbers 81

10 Using two reference numbers with factors 97

11 Learning beyond the tables 105

12 Playing with squares 115

13 Direct multiplication 131

Part II: Having fun with numbers 143

14 Solving problems and puzzles 145

15 Alphametics — fun with numbers 161

16 Encyclopaedia salesman puzzle 169

Part III: Solutions and practice sheets 173

Appendix A: Solutions to puzzles in chapter 14 175

Appendix B: Solutions to alphametic problems in chapter 15 187

Appendix C: Solution to encyclopaedia salesman puzzle 201

Appendix D: Practice sheets 205

Appendix E: Why the method works 213

Conclusion 215

BILL HANDLEY is recognised as an authority on teaching and study techniques in Australia and overseas. His methods of teaching maths and learning and thinking strategies have achieved astonishing results in schools worldwide.

Help your child to:

• master tables up to 15 and beyond
• boost their confidence
• perform lightning-fast calculations
• crack problem-solving
• learn like a genius.

What if you could make it possible for your children to master times tables in half an hour? What if your children could spot their errors on tests and easily make corrections?

Maths-minded children become in-demand professionals, but many children lose interest and confidence in their abilities from an early age. This book will teach and motivate your child to excel at mathematics.

Author Bill Handley's proven approach to teaching multiplication tables shows you how to improve your child's maths abilities, thinking skills and problem-solving strategies while teaching genius tricks that make maths fun.

Be the catalyst for your child's success as you help them to:

• perform lightning-quick calculations
• discover easy tricks for multiplication
• explore the basic principles of maths
• have fun playing with numbers
• build confidence and self-esteem.

With a proven approach that feels like fun, this third edition of Teach Your Children Tables helps you give your child a priceless gift that lasts a lifetime.