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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 October 2013 10:19:27AM 2 points [-]

In some cases, it was performing drills at all whether I'd mastered it or not. 3rd grade is multiplication tables territory. That's deadly boring even when you haven't mastered it yet. And it's one of the few times I really would advise just sucking it up and memorizing the danged thing.

I would advice to play some computer gain that trains multiplication. If you approach the problem in a gamified manner it's not boring and you will likely learn it faster.

Comment author: Decius 10 October 2013 08:20:58PM 0 points [-]

I'd refine that- find/create a software toy that employs skinner-box methods to reward increasing skill at (withbout loss of generality) multiplying.

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