With elementary math, we hear how children shouldn’t be “forced” to memorize their math facts, but truthfully, that’s a lot of what early math is really about.
Multiplication is simplified addition and it’s meant to be memorized, it’s just all in how you go about doing it and memorization is best learned when things are fun and easy.
A lot of times children get stuck at multiplication, simply because they don’t memorize the facts. In order to do division, or any further math, children need to learn and memorize multiplication facts.
I learned my multiplication facts, not in school, (which I unwillingly attended), but instead with my mother in the garden. She would go through them with me orally while I followed her around in the garden. With my own children and home education, we have done them in similar ways as well as on paper. Once they understand the concept of multiplication they simply need to memorize the facts, and it’s best done in a fun, engaging way.
Help reinforce multiplication facts by having your children copy them and write them out. With this PDF, 0’s and 1’s are excluded, the pages only go through facts 2-12. This is a printable book to download for your children.