Times Tables Make Sense
Times Tables like you’ve never seen before! I’ve written a graphic novel series with a new system for teaching the times tables.
The new system would be a good one for adult students–it teaches for understanding, the exercises match the method, and it allows for the fact that our students often are not good at rote memory work and timed tests.
A kids’ book for adult students?
So how could you use this method with adult students, even though the book is written for 7-9 year olds?
Download Book 1 FREE from December 1 to December 5, 2022. Check it out here.
The ideal situation might be to work with a group of parents and guardians, and offer a mini course in helping their kids with the times tables, and carry on as I suggest below. Most instructors, however, won’t have that ideal situation. Still, many adult students have children in their lives who might be learning the times tables, or struggling with other math because they aren’t fluent or confident in their ability to remember the tables. Adults might be willing to learn a new method to help those kids.
Here’s another story about sharing power with adult literacy students, to go with the one I posted last week called 
Adult literacy and GED students have enormous respect for text–too much respect, I think.
Kat posted this question on my blog the other day, and went on to say, “I’m teaching my first teenage reading student now, and forcing ‘See Spot Run’ down his throat is not sitting well with me.”
As August slips by, I’m reminded of activities that start the new year, which I put under the heading of “How to manage your teacher,” an essential skill for every student, at whatever level.
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