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Times Fables: a revolutionary way to teach your kids their times tables

Does your child struggle with the multiplication tables? If so, this Times Fables book might help.  Designed with visual learners in mind, the book aims to teach children their times tables through a series of cute little stories.

As someone old enough to remember Ford Cortinas and life before Channel 4, I can confidently tell you the answer to 6×7, and 7×8 – the times table calculations declared by mathematicians to be the hardest to recall.

I have clear memories of being asked in primary school to stand up and chant my times tables in front of my classmates on a daily basis. And it clearly worked, as I later went on to read maths at university.

Sadly, my 8-year-old does not share my enthusiasm for chanting her times tables. She did show a modicum of enthusiasm when we started singing them, but struggled to maintain focus beyond 5 or 6.

Like many parents, I have spent a small fortune on tools aimed at helping my daughter learn her tables. We’ve tried gaming apps like Squeebles, where you rescue colourful bugs from the clutches of the nasty maths monster by correctly solving multiplication problems. We’ve tried playing card games, dice games, and board games. We’ve bought colouring books where you only colour in multiples of 4 or 5, pop-up books, and workbooks. We’ve even spent an afternoon in our local coffee shop trying to make up little rhymes together to help commit the tables to memory. Ultimately though, all have failed to cement the tables in her brain, and have only served to make my daughter more convinced that times tables are just “not her thing.”

“I was skeptical at first, but it really does work. My 8-year-old is dyslexic, and has struggled a lot to learn her tables. But within a couple of hours of getting this book, she had mastered them all.” – Alison King, mum of 3

Determined not to give up, I came up with the idea of using a story-based approach to teach the times tables. I created a character for each number, and went from there. Number 3 is denoted by a robin, number 4 is a chair, number 7 is a reindeer called Dr Sven (my daughter’s idea!), number 8 is a snowman, and so on. I then wove these characters into a simple story, with the idea being that to recall 3×4, my daughter simply has to think about which part of the story features a robin and a chair.

Lo and behold, it worked! I gave my homemade book to my daughter one rainy Saturday afternoon, and by Sunday evening, she was able to tell me that 6×8=48, simply by recalling that the six elves took Mrs Snowman’s temperature and found it was a very hot 48 degrees.

Time will tell whether the stories hold her interest long enough for the tables to become automatic, but for now, I am quietly optimistic. For the first time in her short life, my daughter is enjoying solving simple multiplication problems. She no longer fears being asked what seven eights are. And as a mathematician, that makes me very proud.

—- Times Fables is available to purchase on Amazon , and costs £7.99.

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Times Fables: Learn your times tables in as little as a week [3rd Edition] Paperback – 28 Feb. 2021

Written by Jessie Wilson and first published in 2017, Times Fables® is an award-winning right-brain system that helps children memorise times tables with ease. Inspiration for the book came when the author was trying to teach her daughter her times tables. Thinking back to her own school days, she recalled that her ‘favourite’ multiplication was 7 times 8. Why? Because she lived in house number 56. A lightbulb went off in her head, and she started wondering if the solution to her daughter’s times tables woes might be as simple as adding some memory “pegs” to the multiplication facts to aid recall. And with this, Times Fables® was born…

• ISBN-10 1916407668
• ISBN-13 978-1916407664
• Edition 3rd
• Publication date 28 Feb. 2021
• Language English
• Dimensions 20.96 x 0.36 x 15.24 cm
• Print length 57 pages
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One may not expect to read such stories in diplomatic history. Still, the human face of war stares at you throughout “Fire and Rain,” Carolyn Eisenberg’s 2024 Bancroft Prize-winning study of the lies, deception and earth-shattering violence that propelled President Richard Nixon’s prosecution of the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The connection is critical because battlefield realities influenced decision-makers, who then tried to shape reality to their liking. Ms. Eisenberg is a noted historian and critic of U.S. foreign policy who, all those decades ago, was a campus anti-war activist. Her moral compass continues to inform her scholarship. Brimming with insights from thousands of declassified documents and telephone transcripts, this book is a damning rendering of not only Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger but also the national security state that made possible their policy of prolonging a lost war. The deaths of countless Southeast Asians may have mattered little to a White House bent on deceiving the public. To Ms. Eisenberg, however, it would be impossible to convey the sheer criminality of their actions without reference to the discomfiting consequences. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, “Fire and Rain” also evokes Nixon’s resignation half a century ago for the crimes of Watergate. The author links Watergate and Vietnam because “the creation of ‘the plumbers’ had largely been inspired by the desire to suppress antiwar criticism. Yet apart from the particulars, there was something deeper at work because the secretiveness and lies, which had been a feature of previous administrations, had assumed epic proportions … the ordinary processes of national security decision-making had been torn loose from any institutional moorings,” Ms. Eisenberg writes. Nixon and Kissinger concealed from Congress the bombing of Cambodia for 14 months from March 1969. Then, they hid the plans for the invasion of Cambodia from the secretaries of the state and the defense. While insisting that the U.S. could not betray an ally in Saigon, Kissinger later promised Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai that after the war, the administration would begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Taiwan — a supposed ally — without having run this idea past Congress, the Taiwanese or anyone else who might object to such a betrayal. To secure “peace with honor,” the emotionally volatile Nixon and Kissinger repeatedly sought military escalation even as U.S. troop withdrawals accelerated. Their weapon of choice became the B-52 bomber, deployed with no regard for civilians. “Let’s brutalize them,” Kissinger said, referring to the Linebacker II raids in late 1972 when “peace” was in the offing. The year before, Nixon instructed his right-hand man to inform Hanoi that he would “finish off the g——— place. … Just knock the [expletive] out of them.” The president and national security adviser portrayed in these pages are storms of contradictions. Angry and autocratic in private, Nixon remained a master political manipulator in public. His televised addresses about Vietnam and detente with China and Russia convinced most Americans he was a peacemaker. The 1972 election results confirmed it; Democrat George McGovern, a staunch opponent of the war, carried one state. And Kissinger, who endlessly emphasized the importance of U.S. “credibility” in the Cold War, pleaded with Soviet and Chinese communists to pressure the North Vietnamese to make concessions in the secret peace talks. “Even without declassified transcripts, the contradiction existed in plain sight: If Nixon and Kissinger were exchanging toasts with communist leaders in Moscow and Beijing, why did the killing in Southeast Asia continue?” Ms. Eisenberg asks. Because they were desperate to secure a face-saving deal to extract the country from Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it. The governments they claimed to have supported in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos did not survive. In the summer of 1974, the House impeachers voted against Article IV, charging the president with the secret bombing of Cambodia. Kissinger’s reputation as a statesman soared. He remained unrepentant until his death last November at age 100. In this sobering account, Ms. Eisenberg reminds us of their calamitous failures. “At the time, it was widely recognized that the Nixon administration’s policy in Southeast Asia had been disastrous. Lamentably, the self-serving belief that the freedom and security of people worldwide depended on U.S. military might somehow survive,” she concludes. • Martin Di Caro hosts the “History as It Happens” podcast at The Washington Times. Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia By Carolyn Woods Eisenberg Oxford University Press 615 pages, $24.14 Copyright © 2024 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission . Please read our comment policy before commenting. Click to Read More and View Comments Click to Hide Top of the Times H.R. McMaster Doesn’t Think Donald Trump Is Very Good at Making Deals A new memoir by the onetime national security adviser shows how the former president’s insecurities and weaknesses harmed U.S. foreign policy. The national security adviser H.R. McMaster at a meeting in the White House in 2017. Credit... Tom Brenner/The New York Times Supported by Share full article By Nicolas Niarchos Nicolas Niarchos is a freelance journalist whose writing on international relations has appeared in The Nation and The New Yorker. He is at work on a book about the supply chain for battery metals. Aug. 27, 2024 Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop.org When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. AT WAR WITH OURSELVES: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House , by H.R. McMaster Recently on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has talked up his aggressive stance on China, positioning himself as a tough negotiator in a brutal trade war . But a new memoir by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, one of Trump’s national security advisers, throws that narrative, and many other stories that Trump tells about his time in office, into stark relief. 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