Strategies in elementary math designed to help students who learn in different ways, i.e., multiple intelligences.
Work sheets and lecturing are rarely the answer to helping all elementary students learn and understand math.
Students are not all pressed from the same mold and using multiple intelligence strategies is a great way to help all students by teaching to their individual learning styles.
Strategies for Helping Elementary Students Learn the Multiplication Table
Active (Kinesthetic) - students use newspapers and/or magazines to find multiples of a number, for example 8. Next they cut out these multiples to use as the product for a multiplication problem they create. They paste these numbers on a piece of paper so that the number is the answer to a problem comprised of numbers or a word problem.
Abstract (Logical) -students use graph paper to align multiplication problems with multiples of 9. They create several number or word problems in which the the multiples are 9, 18, 27, 36, etc. Then they explain how they used patterns to find each product in writing.
Writing (Musical) - students create a jingle or short song explaining how 5’s are added on to multiples of 5.
Creating Patterns (Naturalistic) - students identify and explain multiples of a number they see around the classroom, for example 4.
Writing (Verbal -Linguistic) - students write a short story embedding the multiples of a number, for example 7.
Drawing (Visual-Spatial) - students create a drawing which contains objects arranged in multiples of a number, for example 3.
These strategies are only one example of how using the way students learn the best in helping them learn and understand math.
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