[stylist] rote multiplication!

[Barbara Hammel]

Here I thought that was just a multiplication cheat sheet.  They're fun to 
make but useless mostly, unless of course you never learn your times tables.
Barbara

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From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:19 PM
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] rote multiplication!

> You make a chart, and to find the result of the multiplication, follow one
> number from the top down and the other from the left forward till they 
> meet.
> It's just memorization, I suppose.   You have to memorize the chart.   I'm 
> not
> sure how much understanding that promotes.
> Lori
>
> In a message dated 1/5/09 8:09:51 PM, fowlers at syix.com writes:
>
>
>> Educators and their silly classifications! Yes, the big public schools
>> micromanage people, its one of the major problems with education today.
>> People are categorized, not looked at again, and the needs of the 
>> individual
>> are rarely met. I guess I was just saying that the size of the school is 
>> an
>> important factor.
>> I don't even know what rote multiplication is!
>>
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