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LESSON I. Ignore new math and world math and all the other idiocies which
have been presented to you since 1950 and LEARN YOUR MULTIPLICATION TABLE.
If you don't know your multiplication table how in the world do you expect
to do division? Moving colored counters? Getting credit for attempting to
do a problem? Getting a pat on the back for trying, even though your
answer is so far off base you could have single-handedly crashed the
space shuttle?
LEARN YOUR TERMINOLOGY so that you can understand any
textbooks, instructions or discussions that might help you learn math
more easily.
LEARN YOUR MULTIPLICATION TABLE at least to 12 X 12 (10 X 10 is not adequate - no matter what your well-intentioned teacher tells you).
Learn the table up through 25 X 25 if you possibly can - it will help you throughout the rest of your life!
LEARNING THE TABLE: do NOT say "3 times 1 is 3; 3 times 2 is 6; etc." If
you do this you are distracting yourself from the learning process itself
and the relationships between numbers, which you will find invaluable.
RATHER SAY: "3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36", over and over until you
have established a "sound pattern" or "family of numbers" - the "threes".
In this manner, when you hear "23" or "31" you reject them instantly,
knowing that they do not belong to this "family".
Further, when you
are doing "7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84", it should jar you awake to hear the "21" and realize
that "21" belongs to the "threes" as well as the "sevens" THEREFORE 3 X 7 = 21 and 7 X 3 = 21. Start
now, analysing numbers and their relationships to one another: I'm sure you noticed in the
above example that 21, 42, 63 and 84 are all products of 3 and 7 and some other number since
they are obviously all multiples of 21!
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