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jammydee 1:35 Sat Apr 30
Times Tables.

Any tips on learning these quick time?
I am currently on a six week training course and then into a new job, I need to be pretty sharp on the maths.

ohgodno 8:19 Sat Apr 30
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1-5 X tables. If you can't learn those you are a fucking spastic.

6 and 7. The cunts. Just spend a couple of hours leaning them like a parrot. There is no other way at your age.

8 should be hard but isn't. It's the 10-2 X table (so 2X8= is 20-4. 30X8 is 30-6 etc.)

9 is like 8. It's the 10-1 X table with the added bonus of all the answers adding up to 9 so you can check (4X9 is 40-4=36 (3 +6=9))

You're born knowing the 10 and 11 times table.

Learn 12's like a parrot. Or learn it like the 10X 2X table. I don't give a shit.

The Dursley Massive 3:09 Sat Apr 30
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Sounds like fun (once you've got the maths sorted).

Far Cough 3:09 Sat Apr 30
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I dated a bird who was a croupier

jammydee 3:08 Sat Apr 30
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You train on Roulette as it is the hardest.

Far Cough 3:04 Sat Apr 30
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What game specifically?

jammydee 3:02 Sat Apr 30
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Dealer/Croupier

The Dursley Massive 2:58 Sat Apr 30
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Haven't a clue mate!

jammydee 2:56 Sat Apr 30
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WHOicidal Maniac 2:40 Sat Apr 30

Excellent, Thank you.

jammydee 2:55 Sat Apr 30
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I will need to know my 35x 11x 5x 17x and 8xs..
Obviously some easy ones.

Can you guess what job would require me to know these tables like the back of my hand?

The Dursley Massive 2:50 Sat Apr 30
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Jammy,

what job is it? Wondering why you need to know 17s.

charleyfarley 2:46 Sat Apr 30
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If you get the job try and not be seen counting on your fingers

straightuplazy 2:42 Sat Apr 30
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Look up long multiplication.

13 x 17 = 221.

Base number is 10.

Step 1 - 13 + 7 (or 17 + 3, doesn't matter which way round you do this) = 20
Step 2 - "Step 1" x 10 = 200. Do this because you are working to base 10.
Step 3 - 7 x 3 = 21
Step 4 = 200 + 21 = 221

WHOicidal Maniac 2:40 Sat Apr 30
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jammydee 2:25 Sat Apr 30
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Then Partitioning is your friend


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmB_zOmzbzM

BubblesCyprus 2:31 Sat Apr 30
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 2:02 Sat Apr 30

Me to exactly the same! just assumed they still do the same ?

Far Cough 2:31 Sat Apr 30
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17x13 10x17=170+3x17=51 170+51=221

jammydee 2:30 Sat Apr 30
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Yes I know Surface, just add the two sums together, But I was looking for a quick way of remembering up to 20.

As I have a test Mon, it will be 5 mins with about 30 questions that will ask whats 17x19 ect.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 2:26 Sat Apr 30
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You only really have to learn them up to ten mate. Think about it

jammydee 2:25 Sat Apr 30
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Nope, 17..

17x1, 17x2 ect..

As I say, it gets tricky when you haven't used math for years and now i am expected to look at a board and quickly work out 17 x 13 ect..

ironsofcanada 2:21 Sat Apr 30
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Or do what I did and avoid a job with arithmetic.

WHOicidal Maniac 2:19 Sat Apr 30
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jammydee 1:58 Sat Apr 30
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You mean '7 and 8s' rather than 17 right?

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 2:02 Sat Apr 30
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In the sixties, we 5 and 6 years old learned our tables up to 12x as a sort of song, chanted in unison by the whole class and checked on by the teacher verballing quizzing us at the end of each session. We know every one by heart, even those of us who are a bit thick. The whole thing was done and dusted years before we were out of short trousers. My dad claimed that before WW2 the kids used to learn them up to 20x, but you can't trust your father.

I don't think they do anything of the sort nowadays.

Mind you, in them days, it were all green round here...

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