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Dominic O'Brien is an eight times world memory champion and has brought the subject of memory to the forefront of the media.Dominic 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 start with to become a world champion Dominic had to memorize a large amount of numbers.To enable Dominic to do this efficiently he had to find a method to aid him.Many people have the same perspective about numbers that he does.Dominic says that the problem with numbers is that they are cold and unfeeling. People find them awkward and difficult to remember.This view held by adults if shared by children will make times tables difficult to learn.
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.
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