Mathematics has remained a bugbear in the world of students for ever and constantly efforts are being taken to ease its complexities. And on top of it if we talk about the multiplication games it comes to our findings that despite occupying a place of much significance in that it has very important roles to play in carrying out different mathematical operations, when it comes to preparing it by heart, it becomes a challenging task to the student masses. The abstractness and numerical forms make it difficult to be retained in one’s memory for longer time becomes difficult and it tends to slip out of memory very simply. Besides, while in the process of taking by rote students gradually begin to snooze off thanks to the feeling of boredom created by the numerical tables. That is the reason students generally show unwillingness in memorizing the tables.
But what if the usually appearing to be boresome multiplication is dished up in form of multiplication games? Then it becomes fun to play with instead of being monotones and boresome. The principles of Mnemonics says that if human mind tends to remember some thing which is associated with spatial, personal, surprising, physical, sexual or humorous or otherwise meaningful information, as compared to retrieving arbitrary sequences.
The same sort of thoughts had stirred Jane Hague conscious as she began to wonder what if the numerical entities of multiplication tables is dished up in pictorial representations coupled up with the short stories associated with the multiplication operations. And this led to what is now called as the Tilly’s Tables. Tilly’s Tables can be source for the pleasure and glee for the whole family in addition to being the source of studying the mathematical facts. Tilly’s Tables have all in treasure to present what the teachers incorporate in their tutoring in the class rooms. And even goes beyond that and that too in a very appealing, symbolic, and amusing way. Tilly’s Tables promotes the employment of all aptitudes and does not limit anyone to a predetermined conception of how smart they are.
It lays emphasis on practical study with the help of mnemonics and all children have liking to show their achievements. Tilly’s Tables came to be introduced as Jane was flabbergasted at the notion that if the principles of mnemonics were employed in the tutoring of multiplication tables and thus she begins to teach her children there after with help of symbolic and the narratives of short stories linking with the numbers.Tilly’s Tables contains a pack of cards making use of a number image system and visual and auditory memory clips based on the by and large applauded mnemonics system. The number image system helps in building up of the make-believe characters on behalf of the multiplication times tables in the minds of children and thus they feel it much easier to get memorized.
The card wears in the front an image coupled with the statistical question is portrayed with a brief story. And then in the rear side the same tables are again demonstrated in the forms of grouped numbers. A strong tin has as many as 132 laminated cards in a set.
