Realistically, how long does it really take to master the multiplication tables?
Many years of hard study for me just to be able to squeak by. I had to return to it years later, as well, to complete the process -- I didn't memorize all of it originally, I just used various identities along with what I had learned. Not everyone is gifted with a good memory. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Realistically, how long does it really take to master the multiplication tables?
I grew up in a large family, and my siblings drilled these tables to one another; it became a bit of a game, and didn't really take very long.
If someone had asked us to memorize the sqrt table, we probably would have done that, as well.
I also recall doing a prime sieve by hand shortly after learning how to count, because I was fascinated by how random the results were.
We now know that the capacity of human memory is easily in the Gigabytes, so there's no worry about filling up a limited capacity.
At 12:37 AM 2/13/2015, Bill Gosper wrote:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/11/stanford-professor-says-memorizing-multipl...
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