for people who went to elementary school in PA&NJ and who
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Please no judgement !
When I was in elementary school, my moron school thought it was smart to teach us Vaughn Dean's multiplication by picture association. It was where the numbers somehow made up a word.
So say if they gave us the multiplication 3x4, they taught it to be 3x4 meant the word mare.
The 3 made up the m and the 4 made up the r.
Then they taught us that the answer word was tin. The t meant 1 and n means 2. So 3x4=12.
I know this isn't going to make sense to 90% of people reading this, but I'm trying to find people who have had to learn this way. Does anybody know where I can find it online ? It is absolutely nowhere to be found ,which hardly makes sense considering they even had flash cards for us. Please someone help me out. I need to talk to people who understand.
This is even the article to prove it exists , but it was only in schools in Pennsylvania and new Jersey.
http://articles.philly.com/1986-05-26/news/26051515_1_multiplication-students-picture
I'm 21, from Mercer County, NJ. I've lived here my whole life.
I've never seen this.
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Not many people have , fortunately.. and unfortunately.
It didn't go to all schools. It must've been a trial of some sort because it didn't last long. I believe only 1-2 years it did.
Anyone ?
Please somebody relate ?
Never heard of this. What I did learn was to do counting with something called "touch points" which are like... well, I'll just include a picture since it's pretty self explanatory. I don't know how common these were but I found them extremely helpful and still use them even today.