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The Best Of Times

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NEW YORK TIMES bestselling creator Greg Tang takes on the times tables, teaching kids innovative how one can multiply numbers and derive answers WITHOUT memorization.

Four is very fast to do when you multiply by 2.
Here’s a little good advice —
please just all the time double twice!

BEST OF TIMES gives kids an intuitive understanding of multiplication, encouraging them to arrive at answers on their own somewhat than memorizing the times tables. A child who can multiply by two, for instance, can multiply by four and even eight! Likewise, times six builds on times two and times three.With his common-sense approach, Greg Tang encourages kids to solve problems creatively, building both their skills and their confidence.

The creator of The Grapes of Math and Math for All Seasons continues his crusade to make math make sense by taking on the biggest of math bugbears: the multiplication tables!

Greg Tang’s proven methods–giving kids tools somewhat than rules and more memorization–pay off once again, as he uses rhymes and commonsense tricks to walk through the multiplication tables from zero to 10. For example, if you know how to multiply by two (“Two is very fast and fun, quickly double and you’re done. What’s that you say, be more precise? Okay then, just add it twice!”), then fours (“… please just all the time double twice!”) and eights (“… doubling three times works just great!”) will have to be a cinch. One of the rhymes are whilst clever as Tang’s tips: Over a panda pool game, he advises, “Nine is faster to compute if in the beginning you overshoot. Here’s a very clever tack, do 10 times and then subtract! What is 9 x 9? It’s ten 9’s minus 9…. What is 9 x 7? It’s ten 7’s minus 7.”

Tang’s text makes for a fun read-along, and illustrator Harry Briggs keeps things interesting with his computer-generated, animal-inspired spreads, with dancing chickens, ice-cream-flinging monkeys, and a fortunetelling cat. Kids won’t feel left out of the action either: each section ends with a few challenges, and a key in the back spells out the entire answers. (Ages 9 to 12) –Paul Hughes

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