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From this page, you will be able to generate practice sheets. You can use them to practice whichever kind of multiplication you want.(Yes, there are many, many ways of doing multiplication, and the one you were taught in school is probably not the best). You can use them to test yourself, your students, or your children, if you are teaching them math.
The pages are all full of random numbers. Each time you visit this page you will get a different set of random numbers, so don't hit the "back" or "refresh" buttons until you are entirely done. This set of numbers won't appear again .
Do the examples either by:
Click here for the practice-sheet
Of course, doing the examples the first way, mentally, is much better. Do it that way if you can. If not, do it the other way until you CAN do it mentally.
Try to do one of these pages every day, until you can do twenty examples in about ten minutes, mentally.
Anyone in fourth grade or beyond should be able to do that. No, schools don't require you to. But if you are setting your goals as low as your school sets them, you are cheating yourself.
Math Mojo is dedicated to getting you up to speed. There will be more and more lessons and booklets about speed-multiplication.
So where are the answers? You don't really mean that you want me to give you the answers, do you? You have to check each example for yourself.
Imagine that!
So how do you check? Firstly - DON'T USE A CALCULATOR! Calculators were invented by vampires to suck your brains out!
If you know more than one method to multiply, use the second one to check the first one. If you can't do that, you may need to divide the answer by one of the original numbers, and hope that you get the other original number.
There are lots of ways to check your multiplication. Math Mojo will be publishing a booklet on some of the best ones, soon. If you want to hurry the process along, you can send me an e-mail to hurry me along.
If you don't have any decent ways to check, get someone to help you. Don't touch that calculator! You will only need to do it a few times, because it will be a pain, and your brain will just learn it quicker to avoid having to do it anymore.
Trust your brain!
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