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Mulling over multiplication: Rote learning or a life skill?

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Mulling over multiplication: Rote learning or a life skill?
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“Why do we have to memorise tables in this day and age?” is a lament that Jasmine Oberoi, a high-school Math teacher at Strawberry Fields School, Chandigarh, often hears. When they have calculators at their ready disposal, do children still need to memorise tables from 1 to 10 or 12? In fact, Jasmine believes that multiplication tables are the “backbone of mathematics.”Sheloney Moni, co-founder of XYO Math Centre in Bengaluru, finds that many students are not proficient with their tables across

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