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Im hoping that someone here maybe able to give some guidance and suggestions. My 10yr old neice seems to be having a very hard time grasping the concept of multiplication tables.
She is a very bright pupil, scoring well over 80%+ in all recent assessments (She got 78percentile in maths) and has no problems whatsoever with addition, subtraction, etc but she cannot grasp the actual concept / theory of multplication at all. Her parents have spoken to the teacher, who has encouraged her refer to the times tables written in the back of the book to keep up (?!) (It is a small rural school with limited number of teachers and resources, the class teacher seems to 'enjoy' maths and they can often do maths for 2 HOURS in the school day).
It is at the stage where she is very upset and frustrated and is dreading going into maths lessons.
Can anyone recommend any additional books / activities / approaches we can try to help her with this? She already does additional maths work from a second book with her parents in the evening to try and help but she still cannot grasp the conecpt.
All help and links appreciated, thanks.
Im hoping that someone here maybe able to give some guidance and suggestions. My 10yr old neice seems to be having a very hard time grasping the concept of multiplication tables.
She is a very bright pupil, scoring well over 80%+ in all recent assessments (She got 78percentile in maths) and has no problems whatsoever with addition, subtraction, etc but she cannot grasp the actual concept / theory of multplication at all. Her parents have spoken to the teacher, who has encouraged her refer to the times tables written in the back of the book to keep up (?!) (It is a small rural school with limited number of teachers and resources, the class teacher seems to 'enjoy' maths and they can often do maths for 2 HOURS in the school day).
It is at the stage where she is very upset and frustrated and is dreading going into maths lessons.
Can anyone recommend any additional books / activities / approaches we can try to help her with this? She already does additional maths work from a second book with her parents in the evening to try and help but she still cannot grasp the conecpt.
All help and links appreciated, thanks.
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