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My daughter is musically motivated so I go through the tables with her on the way to school. If she completes the table without errors we turn on the music. Otherwise she must repeat them from the begining if an error occurs. We have fun with this (especially me). It gives us a chance for a refresher in the early morning and enjoy the bonding of the game itself.

I find with my 6th grade students oral practice works best. It's now called skip-counting because it isn't politically correct to "memorize" lol,,, Have them say the mulitiples: 2,4,6,8, etc with all the numbers until they can do it through 10 or 15 or whatever they need in your state. Then go back and say 2 times 1 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4, 2 times 3 is 6, that way they make a connection to the meaning of what they are doing. Manipulatives work for a lot of children too and you can use Leggos or whatever you have a lot of. You start by grouping them, take 2 items set them to the side and say 2 times 1 set is two, take two more and set them next to but INTO the first two so you have two sets of two and say two times two is four. Each time you add a set of 2 or 3 or whatever number you are working on it is a visual solidification in the childs mind as to what the multiplication means.

##   ##  = 2x2   ##   ##   ## = 2 x 3  ##   ##   ##   ## = 2 x 4  Groups of two being multiplied. 2 groups two times equals 4, 3 groups of 2 equals 2x3,, 4 groups of 2 means 2x4, Hope it helps.