Multiplication table a most crucial component of mathematics that plays a vital role in carrying out different mathmetical operations tends to weigh heavy on the minds of students as it becomes very important to be well crammed. Students are required to keep the tables at the tip of their tongues so as to be prepared to perform several and distinct mathmetical operations.
But being the abstract form they find it difficult to prepare the Multiplication games tables by heart as numerical representations lacking in any pictorial illustration, no image they find within their capacity to visualize so the things tend to slip out of their memory very easily. To some children, only the thought of having to take by rote such a disinteresting and lengthy table is enough to make the chill run down their spine. The credit behind the discovery of the Tilly’s Tables containing the pack of flash cards goes to Jane Hague while teaching her kids observed that remembering the multiplication tables was weighing hard on the minds of her kids. She begins to mull over to find out certain innovative ways to make memorization of multiplication tables easier. In her earlier life stages she had learnt several innovative techniques to keep the things considered generally to be difficult-to-memorize, using the principles of a memorizing technique called mnemonics. A mnemonic, a type of memory support which can often be verbal, such as a very short poem or an unusual word that aids a person in getting something recalled back to the memory. It is the process in which short term memory is converted into long term memory by method of associations.
Tilly’s Tables can be source for the fun and amusements for the entire family in addition to be being the source of learning the mathematical facts. Tilly’s Tables have all in store to offer what the teachers include in their teaching in the class rooms. And even offers more than that and that too in a very interactive, graphical, and entertaining way.
Tilly’s Tables encourages the use of all intelligence's and does not limit anyone to a preconceived notion of how smart they are.
It stresses real-life learning with mnemonics and all children love to show their successes. Tilly’s Tables came in to the existence as Jane was amazed at the thought that if the principles of mnemonics were employed in the teaching of multiplication tables and thus she begins to teach her children there after with help of pictures and the narratives of short stories associating with the numbers. Tilly’s Tables use a series of cards employing a number image system and visual and auditory memory clips based on the generally commended mnemonics technique. The number image system helps in creation and development of the imaginary charcters representing the multiplication times tables in the minds of children and thus they find it much easier to get crammed up. In the front side of the card an image accompanied with the numerical question is depicted with a short story. And then in the rear side the same tables are again represented in the forms of grouped numbers. A robust tin contains as many as 132 laminated cards in a set.