TAMING the MULTIPICATION MONSTER!
Workbook & Videos
TAMING the MULTIPLICATION MONSTER! WORKBOOK (Here's the Amazon link!)
- This workbook offers a unique way to help children learn their multiplication facts.
- It stresses understanding multiplication and learning a few patterns; not memorizing.
- This has the added benefit of building number sense, and that's something just memorizing multiplication facts definitely can't do.
- Approaching learning multiplication facts this way also helps lay the foundation for better understanding division and the math to come!
One Amazon reviewer (cass) wrote that after months of watching her child try unsuccessfully to master multiplication facts, "...This book finally had him getting them down."
TAMING the MULTIPLICATION MONSTER! YouTube VIDEOS:
- Let's Understand Multiplication (VIDEO #1)
- Order Doesn't Matter! (and why that matters!) (VIDEO #2 ... understanding this cuts the multiplication facts a student needs to learn almost in half.)
- "x 9" Multiplication Facts SECRET CODE! (VIDEO #3 ... there really is a secret code!)
- Stay tuned ... YouTube Videos of the other chapters are under construction)
COUNTING Starter Kit-Videos
(Beginning Counting Skills, Subitizing, Cardinal Principle ...)
- Teaching Counting: What Grownups Need to Know! (Lots of Children Have No Idea Why They're Counting ...That's a Problem ... Let's Fix That!)
- Teach Counting "Right!" (Psst...let's teach the Cardinal Principle)
- Learn a Key, But Overlooked, Skill (Subitizing) Needed to Understand Counting-Part 1
- Learn a Key, But Overlooked, Skill (Subitizing) Needed to Understand Counting-Part 2
- Start a Child Learning Math Here! (Psst ... Don't Start to Count Right Away)
- Just click on the link in the title of each video. They are designed to help grownups get little kids get off to a strong start in math. They complement the Very Early MATH: SET 1 & 2 books.
- Suggestion ... start either with the Teach COUNTING "Right!" video or start with the Start a Child Learning Math Here! video. Why? Because most grownups have never heard of the early math skill (subitizing) discussed in the other videos. But... if you start with these other videos, I'll hopefully convince you why this overlooked early math skill is so important.
COUNTING Starter Kit-Books
(Beginning Counting, Subitizing, Cardinal Principle ...)
VERY EARLY MATH: SET 1 - Numbers tell us "How Many" (Paperback & e-book)
- Like early phonics book sets, this series addresses the most foundational very-early-math concepts.
- Spoiler alert ... something called "subitizing" (recognizing "how many" without counting) may be even more foundational to early math than counting.
- Subitizing is the focus of SET 1.
VERY EARLY MATH: SET 2 - COUNTING! How To Do It & What It Tells Us (Paperback & e-book)
- It turns out that children don't automatically understand why we count.
- They have to learn that the reason we count is to answer the question, "How many of something are in a group?" as well as that, when we count a group, the number given to the last item counted tells us the group's size (i.e., the Cardinal Principle).
- Building on SET 1, SET 2 gives you tools to help a child understand: 1. Why we count; 2. How to count; 3. How counting tells a group's size.
- Psst...if a child doesn't understand this, a child won't be able to understand math.
EARLY MATH - Books & Video
(i.e., Counting & Adding Up To 10)
The three early math books below address key early math skills.
Each book's story, illustration, rhymes, and activities help children have fun as they learn these key early-math building blocks:
- Add-To-10 Addition Facts
- Add-Up-To-9 Addition Facts
- Early Counting
- Ten Friends Save the Day! VIDEO read aloud.
Examples From Each Type of Book
VERY-EARLY MATH: SET 1 - Numbers tell us "How Many"
TEN FRIENDS Save the DAY: Add to Ten
TAMING THE MULTIPLICATION MONSTER:
Learn Multiplication Facts By Understanding, Not Memorizing!
Click the BOOKS link above for more details on each book.
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