Multiplication .

22lj

Worlds dumbest question. Drawing a picture of 2 times 8 do you draw 2 eight times? One time I saw it the opposite and was totally confused.

tamarar5

I would think that if you are writing the equation as 2 a total of eight times (2 x 8) you would make eight groups of two.

But essentially they are the same thing, right? 2 x 8 still equals 16, just like 8 x 2=16.

wifeofadam

I think this is MUD.  This first for our board.

With how many people on TB that are very vocal in their opposition to HSing, I'm surprised we haven't had more!

Littlejen22

I could not remember my login on my home computer and used one that I created a long time ago but I was the one that posted it so I promise it is not MUD. And sadly enough I actually have a BS in Elementary Education. My son is in public school first grade and needless to say the math is ridiculously easy for him and he wants to learn multiplication. When I was a kid we did tons of rote memorization. Since my brain wants to teach the two times tables and then the three times tables, etc. I want to count by the number we are working on and show 2x8 as 2 eight times and I have a feeling that is not how it is learned anymore. And I know it means the same thing in the end but I wanted to teach it the way that books would teach it now and I figured you homeschooling ladies are more on top of this than I am.

wifeofadam

Littlejen22 said:

I could not remember my login on my home computer and used one that I created a long time ago but I was the one that posted it so I promise it is not MUD. And sadly enough I actually have a BS in Elementary Education. My son is in public school first grade and needless to say the math is ridiculously easy for him and he wants to learn multiplication. When I was a kid we did tons of rote memorization. Since my brain wants to teach the two times tables and then the three times tables, etc. I want to count by the number we are working on and show 2x8 as 2 eight times and I have a feeling that is not how it is learned anymore. And I know it means the same thing in the end but I wanted to teach it the way that books would teach it now and I figured you homeschooling ladies are more on top of this than I am.

I apologize.  I saw that it was someone's first post and I thought it was MUD.

Littlejen22

No problem, I totally understand and would have said the same.