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It is always nice to see new followers on my site. Please pass on this site to parents of children in primary schools so more people can benefit from what I have learnt from others over the years.

I have today - 26.3.2020, seen a comment from a friend and he confirms using this in his coding of jobs submitted. The following is what I wrote in July 2012 I have not received any comment or e-mail from anyone. Does it mean that what I have written is clear enough for everyone? I am not sure and therefore I’ll give another example. I hope someone will start commenting so that I can move forward. Let me give another example: 

This article is for parents with children finding difficulty with their time's table. Many parents, from a number of Yahoo Groups I belong to, have asked me if I know of a simple way to teach Multiplication tables. I have in the year 2010 written to many parents telling them what I had learnt from my dyslexic students on multiplication from the 6 time table onwards. This is just a crutch for the time being and should be discarded once the student has learnt his multiplication tables. In fact, after a few months of using this method multiplication will have been memorized.

Mathematics I do not know who to attribute all the various methods of doing mathematics which I am going to write on from today.   One of the earliest books to be written about these methods was written by Jakow Trachtenberg. He was a Russian who was born in 1888 and died in 1953.Subsequently many others have changed a little here and there and called it their own. All I can say is that I learnt all these as I was growing up and none of it is my own and now I share them with you.

"Leaders aren't born they are made.   And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.  And that's the price  we have to pay to achieve that goal,       or any goal."                          -   Vince Lombardi Multiplying by 5 is real easy because the result either ends in '5' or '0', so you know  you have  gone wrong if you get a number that doesn't end in '5' or '0'.

Multiplication is a difficult concept for any child to learn. It will be easier for a child to learn if he understands the concept. I have found the following idea to be helpful. When you start multiplication get hold of 10 pairs of socks. Place them in front of the child. Explain what a pair means. A pair = 2.