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Memorize in Minutes : The Times Tables |  | Author: Alan B Walker
Publisher: Krimsten Pub
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 28175
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0965176967
EAN: 9780965176965
ASIN: 0965176967
Publication Date: July 15, 2000
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Product Description
Use pictures, stories, and activities to teach all students the times tables. Everything is included: step-by-step lesson plans, flash card masters, tests, quizzes, charts, and activites. This book presents each multiplication fact in a way this is fun for the teacher and student.
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 This book is great!! September 23, 2009
Mom Of Many Munchkins (Central WI, USA)
I really like this approach to learning the multiplication facts. The first few lessons teach your child what multiplication really is (repeated addition) instead of starting out memorizing stories immediately. They also show you the chart with the times tables on it. Shaded out are the 0 facts and the 1's (those are easy), also the repeats (if you know 2 X 3 then you know 3 X 2). After that's done there are only 36 facts to memorize. It's still a lot, but on a chart with 100 it helps you to see that this is doable. The book teaches you those 36 facts.
What I really like is that the numbers stay the same; all the 2's are shoes, 3 is a tree, 4 is a door, 5 is a hive, 6 = chick, 7 = surfin', 8 = skate and 9 is a sign. Once you can remember these 8 numbers/pictures there's no guessing what the number is for that story (unlike Times Tables the Fun Way where the number pictures do not stay the same but change). Of course, the numbers in the answer are not the same.....if the answer is 9 it doesn't mean the 9 in the answer will be a sign. Each picture also has the number inside it (the shoe has a 2 inside of it, there's a 3 up in the leaves of the tree, etc).
This book has pages of everything you need in the back of the book. Some things, like the flash cards, you could just cut right out of the book. The larger cards you can also, but you might want to also make copies so that your child can color one. Every lesson is spelled out with exactly what you need and even tells you what to say.
The first story is for 2 x 2. The story is: "A young boy received a pair of new shoes and they were just what he wanted. When he put them on, he found they were too big. Even though they didn't fit, he decided to wear them to school the next day. Sometimes, as he would walk along, he would step right out of them. He would look down at his feet and be in his socks. The shoes would be sitting on the floor. As you can imagine, this was very embarrassing for the boy. 2 X 2 = 4; Shoe X Shoe = Floor". After reading the story the child can color the picture (obviously it's 2 shoes on the floor). The child is also told to close their eyes and picture the 2 shoes sitting on the floor. It also explains to your child that the 2's rhyme with shoes and the 4 rhymes with floor and they can close their eyes and picture this. They can even act out the story.
Here's another example further along in the book: 8 X 8. "Two skaters went to a skating rink. They put on their skates and started skating. After only a few seconds, they stopped moving. They didn't know what was wrong. They looked down at the floor and were shocked. The floor was covered with sticky, gooey gum. Their skates were stuck to the sticky floor. 8 X 8 = 64; Skate X Skate = Sticky Floor".
Even the product of the numbers multiplied has a consistency to it that you won't find in Times Tables the Fun Way. What I mean by this, as an example, is that the answers in the 60's are all sticky.......63 is sticky bee, 64 is sticky floor. If another multiplication sentence has the answer 63...it will be sticky bee again. The 30's are dirty.......36 is dirty chicks, 35 is dirty dive, etc. I can see that my kids could really learn from these stories and pictures (and me too). If they see on paper 8 X 8 they'll probably remember the two skates and think....."oh yeah, sticky floor.....64". In the back of the book (its over 200 pages) are large cards to color, smaller flash cards, quizzes and picture quizzes where they draw the pictures. I'm more than happy with this book and highly recommend it.
My daughter asks to learn new times facts almost nightly May 29, 2009
L. M. Kersey (Knoxville, TN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter just finished second grade and will be officially learning her multiplication tables next year. We are barely a week out of school, and though I bought this book to work through with her over the summer, we have covered A LOT of ground in it--and we've only been out of school for four days! She loves it. It REALLY works for her.
Times Tables April 29, 2009
nattiemae (Lindale, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great product. Worked great to help my son with his times tables. Bought a copy to use as a teacher also and got one for my son's teacher too. My mom found it and the ryhmes were helpful. Made learning fun for my son.
A Huge Help! February 21, 2009
J. SCHOFIELD
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is awesome! My daughter is in the third grade and hates flash cards! She is a very imaginative out of the box thinker. This book made her excited to learn her multiplication tables. After we used it the first night she wanted to play the "buzz" game with her friends at school. They loved it and asked her to bring it into school. When she did the teacher loved it and is going to order one for herself. I was amazed at how quickly she was able to remember the images which allowed her to remember the problem. It made me gitty with excitement to see the pride on her face when she could recite her 9's like she's known them her whole life! It is worth the money! This book does have flash cards in the back, but one side is numbers and the other side is the picture associated with it. The stories that go along with the image are key. You need to read each of the stories in order to assist with making the connection to the image. My daughter "loves this book"!
 Did not pass the kid test! September 25, 2008
Cheryl (West TX, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a son who struggles with memorizing facts, so I bought this book despite its high price tag. The pages are very sturdy, and the black and white illustrations are fairly simple, which is good. I think the rhymes are great, but both my younger sons (3rd and 4th grades) gave the book a big "thumbs down". They thought it was too silly and babyish. Being a patient mom, I plan on toting it out again in a few months, but their initial reaction is disappointing... we'll see how it goes in round 2. I think I will choose just a couple strategic pages to put up near our kitchen table and see how that goes.
That being said, I will keep this book in my professional library because there ARE children who will love it and learn from this method. I know that I will be able to successfully use this book in the classroom. I really was surprised that my fourth grader, a visual learner and generally silly-humored boy, did not care for the book- I guess I had him pegged incorrectly.
I gave it three stars because of the negative reactions of my own children and because of the high price tag ($29 on Amazon). However, I think this can be a useful tool for the right child.
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