We hope you enjoy the following slides that correspond with CC’s Math memory work.

It is amazing how many high school students struggle with higher math because no one made them truly memorize their multiplication tables. Teachers and curriculum wrongly assume they did so in 4th grade. Your brain can’t work on two new concepts at once. So either the child is trying to figure out the multiplying to be done in the algebraic equation, or they can try to learn the algorithm (how to solve the problem). THEY CAN’T DO BOTH. They must know the multiplication tables like they know their best friend's phone number. Therefore, we memorize multiplication tables a lot!

Leigh Bortins, CEO and Founder of Classical Conversations 2nd Edition Foundations Guide, page 32

Math content is repeated for all
three cycles. Therefore the
math “grammar” is the same
every year.