Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me, says Adrian Chiles
Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me, says Adrian Chiles
Huh, nines are the hardest to grasp?
That sounds… very wrong.
I mean, it’s definitely 7s, right? Like no contest, hands down, it’s 7s for everybody isn’t it?
I never learned my times tables past x5. I have to math it out every time.
Yeah, that’s fair. I mean I always liked math for the most part, but learning times tables was definitely an annoying phase. But for me, finding those patterns was always going to be preferable to rote memorization, and 9s had a nice easy pattern. All the even numbers have some useful patterns too, and I still think about those patterns when I help my kids with homework, but none are of them are as simple and useful as the 9s pattern.
I mean, after doing the math for each time table over and over again, you do eventually just remember it.
7, 14, …21? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh