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Collaboration is multiplication.
With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
People are reasonably good at estimating how things add up, but for compounding, which involved repeated multiplication, we fail to appreciate how quickly things grow.
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.
We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division and complex multiplication and to be able to read a novel. They should be able to write a short story with accurate punctuation, spelling and grammar.
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else - money, politics, et cetera - intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I'm knee-deep in it. I'm really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.