My personal opinion on this is that you might be simplifying it too much. It is exceptionally easy to create a "flash card" system for learning multiplication tables, but I know for sure that that didn't work for me and it doesn't really teach multiplication. What worked for me was thinking about repeated addition (at least to start off, then I memorized by use). I think most people would say that the best way for children to learn single digit multiplication *is* memorization, and that may well be true, but I think it is important that we don't overlook some better way of doing it.
And these discussions need not slow down work. I am all for a "flash card" set of multiplication tables. I just think it is also important to show that 3*2 = 3+3 = 2+2+2 so the student can appreciate how addition and multiplication connect. Jason On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > Hi, >> >> What is the organization of this team? Is there a leader or leaders? >> > > Karlie and I seem to be the leaders. > > Is there anyone on the team who is looking into the research on pedagogy >> and about what work and what doesn't for Math instruction? >> > > The only hesitation I have here is if we allow long pedagogical discussions > to slow down work. > > The goals here are deliberately simple: > > * Identify a set of learning objectives, as defined by existing curriculum > guidelines. We've chosen Massachusetts 4th grade math: > http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths > > * Create activities that can tackle each of these objectives individually, > in a modular way. > > * One by one, create a set of activities that ultimately address every > learning objective in the 4th grade math framework. > > Any research that can help inform this very particular goal is welcome. > > --g > > -- > Got an XO that you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer! > [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]] > _______________________________________________ > FourthGradeMath mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath > >
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