When do the kids need to learn the Multiplication tables? How?
Though at Taska Damansara Utama there is no dire need to learn the tables, however as we have a. Primary and kindly program at the Learning Steps Academy, This is a battle we fight and are asked about all the time. The straight answer is….. as soon as they can. It can be as early as six or as old as nine years old. To only start learning the tables at standard 3 or 9 years old is already somewhat late. As standard 2 curriculum in Malaysia already requires Times Table and preliminary division in the later part of Std 2. Hence we can derive from here that only starting to learn the complete tables only when you 9 or Std 3 is going to be a game of never ending catch up. You can sing it, chant it and play math games. Recite it in the car together on the way to Jaya Grocer, have a quick quiz during a long haul drive to the hometown. Reward success and encourage their efforts. But being too lenient, delaying the learning until it is too late will hurt thei...

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