How Timetables Hypnotized Me

One day when my mom was driving my brother and me to the summer camp, she had an idea that we could do timetables on the way. My mom said it would be fun, but I wanted to read my book. She started doing squares, cubes, and timetables with my brother instead. It became a daily ritual during driving, and after a few days, I was getting jealous that my brother was popping out answers to multiplication and repetitive addition within seconds. I decided to give it a shot, and in few days I was comfortable going all the way upto table of 14 and squares up to 15. Can’t wait to get up to table of 20 soon. Learning them turned out to be super exciting, and I fell in love with timetables. I was doing them the whole way to the camp and when I reached I couldn't take my mind off; it was as if the timetables had hypnotized me. I finally had to make an effort to unhypnotized myself to enjoy the breakfast before the camp started.

Three quick ways to learn timetables:

a. Understand the pattern: first understand that timetable is just a pattern of repetitive addition. Write your own timetables using this pattern

b. Memorize in a sequence: memorize tables at least once a day and in your free time like driving or at other places where you have to wait

c. Practice in a random order: once you have mastered them in a sequence, practice them or take a quiz with a random pattern. If you can tell the answer to the timetable in 1 second, you know its now in your memory. If you are taking longer, keep memorizing

Three reasons why timetables are helpful:

a. Finish your math homework faster - problems in repetitive addition or multiplication or division or fraction; everything can be completed at fast speed with timetables

b. Impress as a Girl scout cookie cashier - quickly tell the customers how much money they owe, and also add up the money you earned

c. Manage your money: help parent to count money at the ATM or bank, and also better manage your allowance by keeping a notebook of your personal bank account

Enjoy learning your timetables!Writing Girl

PS: I used this 20*20 timetables chart to  practice