In grade school did you learn the multiplication table through 10 or through 12?
I once had a student from Senegal who said his school made them learn through 15... I was a little jealous.
(I only learned through 10, but have picked up most of 11 and 12 slowly over time...I resent that I'll never know those as easily as the single digits. I wish I'd been forced to learn all the way to 20 tbh.)
@futurebird not as useful as tools tho. what galls me is that schools scare kids with this huge chart of 144 things they gotta either memorize or look up.
there's lots of patterns in multiplication and so there are only about 30 really hard ones you gotta memorize.
y even put 1s and 10s on there? pattern to 5s, 2s 4s and 8s is just lots of doubling. 9s thers a pattern...
11s and 12s just there to scare kids.
school sucks.
It was the ‘4’s’ that really got me. Now I just double them and add, what ever it takes to get the multiplier right. I am almost 76, math trauma is long-lasting!
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