If You Don’t Memorize Your Multiplication Table, Try This Trick

by Cecile Cinco

Many kids do get a hard time memorizing the multiplication table. Sometimes they reach adulthood and it’s still a problem. Now that calculators are everywhere, who wants to compute on paper or even mentally?

The calculator may give you easy access to math problems but it makes one’s brains inferior in some way. You make your fingers practice instead of your thinking.

I’m not a Math enthusiast. I hated Math but I know it is VERY important so I have to live with it. Good thing, I found a trick that, though it is a simpler way to get an answer, I still get my brains to work.

Imagine below are your left and right hands with 5 fingers each and each finger level corresponds to a number.

If you make your left finger touch your right finger (i.e., 7 touching 8, which means 7 x 8), you count all the fingers downward, in this case 5. That’s automatically 50. What remains above are 3 fingers on your left and 2 on your right. That’s 3 x 2 = 6. 50 + 6 = 56.

In case of 6 x 6, you have 2 fingers downwards (20). 4 on the left x 4 on the right = 16. 20 + 16 = 36.

This is especially helpful for numbers 7 to 9, which is the most afflicting numbers in the multiplication table.

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