Edutopia – Thomas Courtney
“Multiplication facts. I’ve never understood why, in all the years I’ve taught mathematics, we’re still calling the rows and columns of skip-counted numbers multiplication facts. To my mind, aren’t they also division facts? 5 x 6 is 30, which I can locate on my multiplication chart fairly easily, but 30 divided by 5 has only one answer, 6. All I have to do is find 30 on the chart, locate 5 to the left, and I’ll find 6 above. Voilà. I can use the exact same chart as a division facts chart to find the answer, if I think of it that way.” (more)