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Who knows their TIMES TABLES ?

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RTKangaMummy · 23/01/2005 19:42

I didn't learn them at school.

My mum told me it was because of the fashion of not teaching them when I was in primary

I still don't know them without thinking

esp.

6x
7x
8x
9x

I can work them out obviously but not with instant answer

I did A level maths so it didn't harm me.

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MunchedTooManyMarsLady · 23/01/2005 20:10

just being cheeky Yorkie.

Donbean · 23/01/2005 20:12

Its like dyslexia but with numbers. Nightmare thing to have. Only discovered that i had it about 3 years ago, always knew that there was something not right but just thought i was thick.
I struggle and am definitely not that thick!

Donbean · 23/01/2005 20:13

hoorah!

oxocube · 23/01/2005 20:17

Thanks, Donbean. I thought that may be what it was but have never heard of it before. Is it as common as dyslexia?

tillykins · 23/01/2005 20:19

But but but -

9 x anything is much easier if you do 10 x then take away eg 9 x 8 = 80 - 8 = 72

Then you don't need 9x anything

Hausfrau · 23/01/2005 20:23

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Donbean · 23/01/2005 20:23

Im not sure how common it is to be honest. I havent met any body else that has it but ive googled it and its been mentioned on here a few times as some MN's children have been diagnosed with it.So presumably it is well known.
Im not sure what is available to help these children to be able to do maths, certainly it wasnt even heard of when i was a child and so i was always in the "thickies" set and pretty much ignored. Im sure that things must be better for children nowadays.

Donbean · 23/01/2005 20:25

You can imagine how im struggling with chip and pin at the mo!
Its bad enough remembering my pin number and ive had the same one for about 10 years!

PicadillyCircus · 23/01/2005 20:26

I'm 29 and know all of mine . Both of my parents are maths teachers and tables are something I can't remember not knowing.

Hausfrau · 23/01/2005 20:27

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Donbean · 23/01/2005 20:31

Ive learned my chip and pin now,although they have had to send me 3 reminders but this made me forget my pin number for my other cash card.
It comes to me suddenly then is gone again, i try to remember the sequence on the keypad rather than the numbers but still panik when i get to the cash machine! LOOOOOOSER

Gem13 · 23/01/2005 20:31

We had to learn them off by heart at my primary for a packet of chewits!

I am a few years younger than RTKangaMummy but it was a hothousing primary (before we knew about such things).

Am very confused about all things metric and imperial though. Know my centimtres and miles and know how much my babies were but that is it.

jampots · 23/01/2005 20:39

i know all my times tables

SueW · 23/01/2005 20:51

By age 10 I knew them all the way to 17x table (learnt the standard ones as required then used to lie in bed working out the others).

Hated A level maths. Love numbers (an still rmemeber school friends' phone numbers 20+years after needing them); love pictures for learning (but not art); hate letters (literature, history, mathematical formulae) but love languages.

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RTKangaMummy · 23/01/2005 20:52

I can remember phone numbers really easily

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Yorkiegirl · 23/01/2005 20:53

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happymerryberries · 23/01/2005 21:01

For those of you who love numbers a bit of brain gym then....

What is the pattern to these numbers?

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221.

JanH · 23/01/2005 21:28

Re times tables, usefulness of:

DD2 is working in a care home and the other day they played bingo with the more compos mentis residents. The girl reading out the numbers would say eg "six, seven, sixty-seven".

After a couple of these, one of the non-compos-mentis ones, who wasn't playing, started piping up (from inside her chair with its back turned) "six sevens is forty-two, not sixty-seven!" or "three sixes is eighteen, not thirty-six!"

They all thought this was hilarious of course - a bit like having the invisible man in the room - but it just shows how well times tables can sink in!

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RTKangaMummy · 23/01/2005 21:33

WOW jan brill

HMB have tried but withmumsnetting and TV watching and channel hopping

I cant do it

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lunavix · 23/01/2005 21:34

YG - Yes that's how I know my 9 times table!

I could probably do the rest.. if I thought about it.. it was that long multiplication and long division thing that lost me at school

galaxy · 23/01/2005 21:38

Not Tamara Beckwith that's for sure. She got 7 X 8 wrong on the Channel 5 programme tonight.

PicadillyCircus · 23/01/2005 21:41

Been having a think about the numbers, hmb....and if you add up all the digits for each one then you get

1, 2, 3, 5, 8 so the next would be 13, as each one is got by adding up the two before it, but don't know it it matters how it would be in 1s and 2s, if that makes sense.

But that probably isn't what it is anyway

Linnet · 23/01/2005 21:46

I'm not very good with times tables. 6,7,8 and 9 are very dodgy I can work out the answer but it's not always an instant answer.

dd1 is about to start learning times tables at school and I've bought her a wall chart to put on her bedroom wall in the hopes that it will help her and me.

I'm hopeless at dividing, long division and long multiplication. and I can barely remember fractions, I worry about my dd1 as she's having trouble with maths as it is and I just feel it's going to be so much worse when she gets to these stages and I'm going to be as clueless as her if she needs help.

WigWamBam · 23/01/2005 21:47

hmb: does it go
1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, 312211, 13112221 ...

1 has "one 1" in it, therefore 11.
11 has "two 1's" in it, therefore 21.
21 has "one 2 and one 1" in it and therefore 1211 etc etc etc.

nutcracker · 23/01/2005 21:48

Sorry to butt in but Wigwam did you get the clothes ???