Math Comprehension
Using Memory Enhancing Strategies to Enhance
Multiplication Facts
Strategy: Memory-Enhancing Strategies
Appropriate Grade Level: 3rd grade and above
Procedures/Steps:
All multiplication facts fit into families, so the first step would be to teach a
specific strategy for each family. Have posters made with each number
families strategy on it so the student can master it. Every strategy that goes
along with each number family also has a picture that goes along with it, so
that they student can see the picture to figure out the answer, or read the
steps written on the poster. Also once the students have mastered the
strategies for each number family, make sure they know that when they
come to a fact they don’t know, to go through each family and see what
strategy works.
Comments and/or tips:
Student progress charts are a tool that can be used to motivate students to
want to do better throughout the semester if they can monitor their own
progress.
Source:
Using Memory Enhancing Strategies to Learn Multiplication Facts
(2000). Teaching Exceptional Children, 32, 78-82
Math Comprehension