If your children are struggling to learn the times tables, try the wheel (or mandala) of the Montessori times tables. Easy and fun, you can make it with a simple recycled wooden tablet
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Who is afraid of multiplication tables? For many children, memorizing them is a difficult task, but there is a particularly effective alternative method to do so, the so-called Montessori times table wheel o times tables mandala.
It is a simple circle, which you can make with a recycled wooden board or a piece of cardboard, which has the numbers 0 to 9 along the perimeter. In correspondence with each number, nails are fixed.
How does it work? Assuming you want to teach the 3 times table, the child, after having knotted a woolen thread around the nail corresponding to the number 0, must count 3 pegs clockwise, then turn the thread around 3, then count 3 more pegs and make another round around 6 and so on. Once the table is finished, he will have a geometric figure in front of him, which will be different for each number sequence. For this reason the wheel is also called the times tables mandala.
With this method, the child learns the logic of the multiplication tables and by not limiting himself to memorizing them in an abstract way, he is facilitated in learning. The nice thing is that making a DIY multiplication table wheel is very simple, let's find out how to do it.
DIY Montessori times table wheel
To make the DIY multiplication table wheel, you will need the following materials:
- wooden tablet 20X20 cm
- 10 pegs
- 1 permanent marker
- 1 hammer
- colored woolen thread
With the permanent marker, trace 10 points 6 cm apart on the board.
With the hammer fix the nails in the points indicated and with the felt-tip pen write the numbers from 0 to 9, corresponding to the nails.
Tie the woolen thread to the nail corresponding to the number 0 with a knot.
Choose a table and pass the thread around the nails that correspond to the succession units of that table.
Depending on the table you choose, you will get different geometric shapes.
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