teching math in English - PLEASE HELP!

discan · Post by **discan** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:10 pm

Hi everybody, I'm new of the forum.

I'm an English teacher to 6 to 11-year-old kids. I'm going to teache them timetables and some math issues in English, but I'm not sure about the language to be used. How would you read the following? How would you call them? Are they called timetables or not?

7x1
7x2
7x3
7x4...

Thanks a lot

Angela

beyn · Post by **beyn** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:21 pm

we don't call them timetable we call them ; multiplication table.
and for instance while saying 3x5=15 we say ; three times five is equal to fifteen. If you look for in google as multiplication table, u can find a lot of source.

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:50 pm

Or we even say, "three times five is fifteen" and leave off the "equals".

Senorita Daniels · Post by **Senorita Daniels** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:36 am

When I helped my third grader last year with multiplication and division, I used crayons as manipulatives. Then he could see the problems and hopefully understand how it works. With a whole class, something larger would be more helpful. I would also try to stick to what the kids will learn in their regular math class. Six year olds won't be learning multiplication, so just stick with basic adding and subtraction for them.