What grade did you start learning multiplication?

In Tennessee, we started learning to multiply simple numbers in third grade. Yes, allusions to the reproduction of rabbits was sometimes used.

I didn’t have to memorize multiplication tables until fifth grade. By then, we had to memorize them and answer questions in drills or quizzes.

Third grade, including memorization through 12×12. (1972–73)

Third.

I don’t remember when it was taught in school in the 1950’s.

I learned when I was about 5 or 6. My dad saw me counting out on my fingers and he said 3×4 is always 12. I was amazed to hear this. He gave me a multiplication chart, which I memorized in a week or so. I always loved math because it always stays the same and does what it is supposed to do.

Not so with words, which you cannot always sound out and they often mean different things even when spelled exactly the same (lead).

Third grade and multiplication tables.

It was either the third or fourth grade…I don’t remember for sure!!!

It must’ve been 3rd because that’s when I specifically remember learning about prime and square numbers. Of course my parents usually taught me things slightly before I learned them in school, so I probably knew some basic tables before then. But as far as I know, the schools started teaching it in 3rd grade.

Third grade. Memorizing the times-tables a row at a time, up to times-10. Didn’t get to the elevens and twelves until later.

First grade, every morning, reciting the times table, 8×7 is umm ermm err more or less 6×9.

4^(1.5) is two more than 4x(1.5) or is it?

By fourth grade, classes start to separate the advanced from the slower students. I was in the dumber math classes and eventually resource (special ed) math.

But we all started in about Third grade and were memorizing by fourth grade and had to learn to recite the tables from memory by fifth grade at the latest, as did I.

Most of you were probably never in Special ed, as after all this is Fluther. But the overwhelming majority of students learned the Multiplication tables by fifth grade. Some of us were still memorizing in sixth grade.

I don’t even remember memorizing multiplication tables.

2nd grade. But I went to one of the top schools in the city where I lived.

I just wrote this Q in the Facebook group from the city I grew up in to see what others say. Now, I think I might have started multiplication in second grade. Another kid who had my same second grade teacher says he started in second. I don’t remember him, but we have mutual friends, so he might have been in my class. I’m surprised how vague it seems to me. The more I think about it the less I am sure.

4th and 5th grades (changed schools in LA County). Early 1960’s.

Third grade. I guess. Mid 60’s. I never did get them all memorized, though. I stall out in the 7, 8,9 ranges. I came up with my own personal tricks, and encourage my students to do the same.

I think that’s what common core math is all about. They researched what memory devices the kids who were “naturally good” in math taught themselves, and are trying to teach those skills to kids who aren’t so quick on the pick up.

@Pinguidchance If I understand your math problem correctly, no, 4^(1.5) is not two more than
4x(1.5)

4^(1.5) is
16 * 1.5 = 24.

4*1.5= 6.

@Dutchess_III

4^{1.5 is 4}3/2, or
– the cube of the square root of of 4 = (2)^3=8
or
-the square root of 4 cubed = sq root of 64 = 8

What? You have completely lost me, unless 4^ does not mean 4 squared, like I thought it did.

Also, I assumed she used the “x” in 4x as the multiplication indicator. So I read the first one as 4 * 1.5.

Assuming 4^ means 4 squared, I read it as (4 * 4)1.5. = 24. Did I not read it right?

I remember Dad would not let me go to sleep until I could recite my times tables. It was third grade.

I used to sing the times table song to the boys. It really worked – put them to sleep, not teach them.

They learned from that any way @YARNLADY. I actually wish I’d thought of that!

The first time I ever saw multiplication was in the 1st grade.
We wrote out in given chart paper the numbers 1–1000 and as each of us finished, we’d be given a multiplication worksheet but we didn’t actually learn how to do it, we were given calculators to complete it.
I don’t know when I actually learned how to do it, perhaps later on in 1st grade.