Monday, July 19, 2010

Memorize in Minutes is Working!


As promised,  I wanted to follow up with Memorize in Minutes and our experiences with their fun little method for memorizing multiplication facts. I'm THRILLED to share that it's working! My son and I are reviewing just a couple facts a day, but he's remembering them. Not only that, he's having fun!

Ok... so we're talking about a 9 year old boy who despises numbers and carries an enormous amount of anxiety when it comes to doing anything with numbers. His memory for such things is much like mine... lousy! He can tell you just about anything you might want to know about Star Wars, deep space, or his favorite book series... Animorphs, but ask him to tell you what 6x7 is and you'll find a completely different child. One lacking confidence and without any patience at all for finding an answer.

Well, that might just be changing. Now when I ask him... "hey, tell me... what is 6x7?", he'll remember the story of the chicks (for number 6) surfin' (for number 7) to Fort E. Zoo! lol "Oh, it's 42!" he'll now say with a smile on his face. Thank you Lord! Thanks for that smile, thanks for the correct answer and thanks for leading me to a method for teaching multiplication that actually seems to work!


We're just getting started and have a few more weeks to go, but we have a goal to have all his multiplication facts memorized by August 17th. I'll continue to keep you posted on our progress!

To see my previous posts on Memorize in Minutes... just click on the label below or in my left sidebar. At the time I ordered this book, it was on sale at the Memorize in Minutes website.

I'm not receiving any compensation for this review, either monetarily or through a product exchange. This review was unsolicited by the producer/manufacture and was initiated solely by me. Any books or supplies were purchased through my own pocketbook.

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