Multiplication Table
A table of multiplication operations that students are required to memorize in basic mathematics education, regarded as the underlying support for number sense, estimation and algebraic operations.
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Calculators have existed for about seventy years, but many schools still require children to memorize multiplication tables.
The conversation guest stated explicitly: the voices arguing that "with calculators, there's no need to memorize multiplication tables" have made the children who believed them pay a real price, causing "a great deal of human suffering."
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Calculators have existed for about seventy years, but many schools still require children to memorize multiplication tables.
50%UnverifiedThe conversation guest stated explicitly: the voices arguing that "with calculators, there's no need to memorize multiplication tables" have made the children who believed them pay a real price, causing "a great deal of human suffering."
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