Memory world champion Dominic O'Brien is a media personality and talks and walks the subject of memory. He has won the world record an incredible eight times.
He is in the Guinness Book of Records for memorizing 54 packs of playing cards.
He also memorized a pack of cards in 38.29 seconds.
Everyone will agree that these are amazing facts, but would you also be interested to know the relevance for learning times tables?
To become world champion he had to memorize lots of numbers.
To enable Dominic to do this efficiently he had to find a method to aid him.
His view on numbers is one which is very interesting because it is shared by so many people.
Dominic's view was numbers can look cold and unfeeling, thus making the numbers more difficult to remember for people.
If children have the same bleak view as adults, they will find it difficult to learn times tables.
Holding this view makes numbers difficult to remember.
He says that if you group a list of letters together you have a word that represents something whereas if you group a list of numbers together you do not.
By grouping the letters together you could have an emotion, an image, or a person which is easy to remember.
This is the key to remembering numbers. In order to remember them you need to turn the numbers into an image or a person.
He made numbers come to life by turning them into interesting memorable people.
Using this method he managed in 5 minutes to memorize 360 random numbers.Dominic was often acclaimed to be a genius, but in fact it was a simple memory method which has helped him and the other memory champions.
They themselves state that they use simple techniques that anyone can use and with practice achieve great feats of memory.
It is a known fact that children have always learnt their times tables by rote.Very few brilliant memory records would have been achieved if the existing champions had used the rote learning method to remember.
Just think if your children knew how to apply the memory techniques to learning times tables and mental maths how much of an advantage your they would have.
Imagine the confidence your children would have if they could easily remember the times tables.This is an invaluable lesson learnt from the memory champions.
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