Update in OP. Great ideas!---Know any fun ways to memorize multiplication tables?

[karstmama]

yeah, i was gonna say the school house rock ones...i get all nostalgic thinking about them...

[gatorsmom]

School House Rock had great times tables songs. I can still remember some of them! I think you can get those on you tube. There was even a set of all the School House Rock songs that we got on Amazon.

We have the School housE rock DVDs!! I found them at Target a few years ago. And the threes song helps DS remember his 3's but there weren't any other songs for math facts on there.

[hellbennt]

I love collecting information!
So, fwiw, here's a list of math links I've collected:

RE: do you have fun exercises on multiplication- songs or videos or any websites you like?

http://faculty.kutztown.edu/schaeffe/Mnemonics/MultRock/multrock.html

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=160951


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Skip Counting- Fun Songs to Learn Multiplication
http://www.pragmaticmom.com/2011/09/supplemental-educational-tools-multiplication-division/

2 do-it-yourself Math Games, 2nd-5th grade, invented by kids:
http://www.pragmaticmom.com/2011/05/2-do-it-yourself-math-games-invented-by-kids-2nd-5th-grade/

Math Teaching Resources for
K-5 Classrooms http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/

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ONLINE GAMES:

http://mathrider.com/ looks like you need to register, but it's free...
Grand Prix Multiplication (game)
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/grand_prix/grand_prix.html
Tractor Mulitplication (game) - tug of war against others
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/tractor-multiplication/tractor-multiplication.html
Meteor Multiplication; shoot the meteor
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/meteor/meteor.html
Island Chase subtraction- chase others
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/island_chase/island_chase.html

Add, Subract & Multiply, against the clock
http://www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/

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And, here's more to go through:

Abcya
Bootstrap
Brainpop
Khan Academy
What Works Clearinghouse
Wolfram Mathmatica
Computer Science Teachers Organization
Association for Computer Machinery
Tufts robotics programs
Deal or no deal TV show
HMH Fuse
Carmen Sandiego
Singapore Math
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

[gatorsmom]

Update in op.

But I just saw these links and ideas posted by Laura (hellbent). Awesome! Opium going to start singing the math songs with all my kids so they just memorize them before they even start learning multiplication. Thanks!

[Jupiter]

Math is all about patterns. Have him count by 2s, 3s etc. show him there is a pattern to it. Also if you take manipulatives (goldfish, pennies, anything) have him show you 2 x 3 by making 2 groups of 3 or 3 groups of 2. Thus he is not just memorizing, he is learning and understanding where multiplication comes from.

Also asking him different ways to get the answer, like what numbers multiply to get 10. Start by doing 5x2 then ask the question in reverse. Make sense?

Hope that helps.