Ann has taken the thinking-teachers' approach to helping children become masters of their multiplication tables and starts by giving them a vocabulary with which they can describe the strategies that they might use to work out an unknown fact.
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In the second book, Ann shows how to use tallies to work out one of those troublesome multiplication facts:
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With games and ‘beat the calculator’ activities, these books are full of bright new ideas for helping children over the multiplication tables hurdle. For more information, visit www.pascalpress.com.au/back-to-basics/
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