The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine has posted an online review of Five Times Five Is Not Ten. Reviewer Courtney Larson uses the workbook with her own children, and some of her comments are posted below in red.
“After a new strategy is taught, there is plenty of practice. What I like most about this practice is that it incorporates previously taught facts, and then it mixes the multiplication facts with addition and subtraction facts so that the child really has to pay attention and apply what he’s learned.
I have been using this book with my 9 and 7-year-old sons. They both understand multiplication but have had trouble remembering the facts without counting or a lot of thought. We are only about a third of the way through the book, and I have already seen a lot of improvement with my sons’ multiplication fact recall. It only takes minutes a day, and the payoff at our house has been huge. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a child who is struggling to remember multiplication facts.”
Read the complete review at The Old Homeschool’s review site. http://bit.ly/9GK9vx
As I have mentioned numerous times before, before using any of the memorization strategies, please be sure that the students can demonstrate what the math facts mean. Children need to understand numbers, and the value of tens and ones. Many of my earlier blog posts give lots of teaching tips for math. Try out sample worksheets from both this book and Two Plus Two Is Not Five. The website has tips, sample pages, and more. www.TwoPlusTwoIsNotFive.com.
These workbooks are different from other practice books because they give children tips and tricks to learn the math facts and offer a lot of written practice as well.
