Favorite Resource - Multiplication Rock!

Hands down this was the best thing we ever listened to in the car as we drove hither and yon to grocery stores, co-ops, mass, playdates and doctors' appointments.  My kids learned their multiplication tables pretty painlessly this way.  While this might not have cinched the deal in terms of automatic recall as fast as split lightning, it got us about 85% of the way.  To get the rest of the way we quizzed each other.  All this takes time.  My goal was for my kids to have them down by the time pre-Algebra rolled around.  Four out of five kids were good with this.  As I mentioned in a previous post, my poor youngest daughter just tuned out with math.  It made her brain freeze up.  She developed an awful dread of it.  So she's just had to put her head down and push her way through.  Fortunately, she's talented in other ways; she's a really gifted writer and she has a gorgeous singing voice.  So in the end it's all good.  Not everyone is going to be strong in all areas.

But that aside, Multiplication Rock is something I am so grateful for.  It truly took the pain out of learning the times tables for us.

Now when I was concerned about the kids learning their tables, we used CDs in the car.  I don't think people do that so much anymore.  I don't know how you download something like this.  But you can listen on youtube.

We also listened to Grammar Rock and America Rock.  The I'm Just a Bill song is wonderful too.  We liked them all!  But the Multiplication Rock songs were a workhorse in terms of my kids learning something really valuable in an enjoyable way.

I highly, highly recommend Multiplication Rock and all the Schoolhouse Rock songs.