Math Facts Made Easy

Learn All Your Facts in HALF the Time!

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Pat Wyman
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About the author
Pat Wyman is America’s Most Trusted Learning Expert, best selling author, college professor, the
founder and CEO of HowToLearn.com .
She created the first award-winning website with a Learning Styles Inventory and Eye-Q Reading
Inventory that helps students learn. The site now has nearly four million visitors a year. Her mission
is to help every child learn ‘how to learn, succeed at their highest potential and become lifelong
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Wyman testified on better vision screening legislation for schools and also received the James
Patterson Page Turner Individual Award for her work to enhance literacy.
Pat Wyman’s best selling books include: the # 1 Amazon best seller, Spelling Made Easy: Learn Your
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Table of Contents
Other Instant Learning® Made Easy Titles
About the Author
Chapter 1: Do Flashcards Work for Your Child or Student?
Chapter 2: Why Your Child or Student May Have Struggled in the Past with
Math Facts
Chapter 3: The Eye-Brain Connection
Chapter 4: How To Find Your Child’s Visual Memory Eye Position
Chapter 5: How To Add the Visual Learning Styles Strategy for Math Facts
Mastery Success in Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 6: Multiplication and Division Math Facts Mastery
Success Hints
Resources
 Chapter 1
Do Outdated Flashcards Work for Your Child or
Student?
As a veteran teacher and college professor, I’ve seen kids who feel that
learning math facts is almost like a nightmare for them. And for others, they
love it and the learning is quick and easy.
Why is there a difference? Just as in spelling, (see our book Spelling Made
Easy: Learn Your Words in HALF the Time! or copy and paste the AISN
number B009NWWW4S into the Amazon.com search bar) the more you
know how to create of an actual mental photograph in your mind of the
facts themselves, the easier and quicker it is to recall the facts.
HOWEVER –the type of photograph has to be just right and you will want
to use a particular image to have the kind of success you want and one that
allows you to learn your facts in HALF the time!
Brain research and neuroscience has long supported this type of recall.
Here’s an example:
Has your child or student ever…
Studied math facts at home and then forgotten them on
the test at school?
Used old -fashioned flash cards and still received low test
scores?
Written out the facts hundreds of times and had trouble recalling
them?
What If Your Child or Student Could Master Their Math Facts
in Half the Time?
How would your life be different? Imagine how your child would feel when
they passed their math facts tests with flying colors! Picture them mastering
more complex math concepts quickly since you’ve spent less time teaching
the facts!
The Math Facts Made Easy strategy transforms the learning process for
any child or student, even if your child has studied their math facts for
what seems like eternity, and never quite knew them for their tests.
It also creates success for any child who has used outdated “ flash cards ”
repeatedly and still did not recall their facts during the test.
 Chapter 2
Why Your Child or Student May Have Struggled
in the Past with Math Facts
As you already know, people learn in different ways – these are referred to
as learning styles or learning modalities.
The three primary learning styles or modalities are: visual (those who
naturally think in pictures); auditory (those who like to learn best by
hearing the material); and kinesthetic or tactile (those who prefer to interact
with new material, touch or feel it, move around a lot, etc.)
There are two very specific modalities that don’t work very well for
remembering or learning math facts, and if your child is using these, you
will find it causes them to struggle or take a longer time.
You will want to know which two learning styles or which two learning
modalities DON’T WORK VERY WELL or VERY QUICKLY so that you
can show your child which one does work and how to use that one to
achieve success.
The primary reason that your child or student forgets their math facts is that
he or she is either trying to use the auditory learning style and “hear” the
facts in their mind, which is a very slow way of recall , or they are holding
their heads down, using the kinesthetic learning style, trying to feel their
way through recall or remember how they feel about learning math facts.
When kids hold their head down and try to remember things, they are often
saying to themselves that they don’t think they are smart, or that they feel
dumb. Just ask your child (or even an adult when they hold their head down
and try to recall something).
Kids Don’t Realize There is Another, More Effective Strategy for
Learning Math Facts
The children who seem to have given up on learning their facts are not
aware that there is another, more effective strategy available to them.
They have struggled only because they have used a learning style method
that does not work well for this type of task.
Using Math Facts Made Easy strategies, you can absolutely add a new
learning style tool that your child will use to achieve math facts success
and this book tells you specifically how.
Once your child or student learns how to use the one learning modality that
does work more quickly than the other two (this is a picture or visual image
strategy, learning their math facts will actually be fun and they will do it in
far less time.
Just imagine the higher grades, smiles on their face – and yours - and better
yet, their higher self-esteem.
As both a parent of two kids and a teacher, a strategy like this is
priceless.
Success in even the seemingly smallest things in school affects every
child’s self-esteem. If you show any child how to add some visual strategies
so they can play and “win” the school game, the result is most often
astounding success in every part of their life.
 Chapter 3
The Eye-Brain Connection
Why This Connection Results in School Success
When people are asked to recall pictures or asked to recall something
they’ve heard, their eyes move to various positions during the process.
This is precisely how you will show your child or students the strategy
that all the kids who are getting those A’s already use.
This is pretty powerful stuff and it transfers to every subject in school.
Each subject uses a very different and very specific set of visual strategies
as you will see in every Learning Made-Easy” title, and this eye-brain
connection is the visual one that encourages life long success and higher
grades in school.
Visual Strategies for Written Tests
When I first began teaching in the early 1970’s in Los Angeles, my mentor
teachers guided me in two teaching methods that resulted in extraordinary
success for my students.
I was always curious why they worked so well and found that what they
had in common was exactly what the current brain research now supports.
The secret to their success was in helping the students learn how to
“visualize” or make pictures of what they read or heard.
Students who made mental pictures and associations recalled large amounts
of material with excellent comprehension. They did this more quickly and
accurately than other students, and also got higher grades and test scores.
These methods contained a wonderful blend of research from medicine,
psychology, neurology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, optometry and education
showing how well visualizing works for recall and creating future success.
As a new teacher, there was just one glitch. Neither my traditional teacher
training nor advanced degree programs actually showed me “how” to teach
my students to visualize.
Just Telling My Students to Visualize Wasn’t Enough.
I learned many “visual memory” and “visualization” activities to do with
my students, but none were consistently successful because I did not know
the “how” for teaching my students to create and retrieve visual memories.
DON’T TELL YOUR CHILD TO VISUALIZE
SHOW THEM HOW
Auditory or kinesthetic learners don’t automatically know “how” to
visualize – you have to show them what that means, since their primary
learning modality is not picture oriented.
Whenever you give directions and don’t follow them up with the specific
“how” strategies to create success, a child’s efforts may be diluted and
confusion often reigns.
Figuring out how to “show” my students to make mental images was an
exciting journey. After I observed lessons taught by other teachers, took
many classes, read several psychology and medical information books on
mental imagery and interviewed various educational experts, the answers
finally came.
At the time, I had many students who made letter and word reversals when
they read. To help them, I used a multi-modality approach known as the
Beth Slingerland and Madeline Hunter method.
My students would look up, write their letters or words in the air and say
the words aloud. I also had them create their letters in a larger size and
imagine them in different colors.
When it came time to write (or read), I noticed that the students would look
back up as if seeing the letters or words in the air on some internal
blackboard.
In other words, they were checking to see if their actual work matched the
visual image of what they had previously practiced. This was very
successful and they no longer made letter or word reversals when they read
or wrote.
Although this visual memory method worked well with my special reading
students, I wasn’t clear whether it would work for all my students.
So, I interviewed and observed my highly visual students –the students who
also had the highest grades in the class. In addition, I interviewed the
spelling champions and math facts champions.
The Secret To My Students’ Success – Using the Visual Learning Styles
Strategy
I noticed they all did the same thing with their eyes as they recalled
pictures.
They looked up, straight above eye level, to the left side or the right side –
to recall their math facts. I also noticed these same eye positions when I saw
newspaper photos of spelling bee champions recalling their words!
Long before the current brain research could support the answers they gave,
I discovered that all these students used the same strategy both when
learning and remembering things for their tests.
I learned that when they read, they “looked up” and naturally made images
or pictures of what they were reading. These students seemed to know
instinctively how to “visualize”.
They told me it was as if they were creating their own movie. They told me
they converted everything they read or heard to images in their mind.
As I observed them during the act of learning and testing, the students read
a bit and then looked in an upward direction as they processed the
information.
Some students closed their eyes as they processed but still looked up. They
told me this meant they were converting what they read into pictures.
In the next chapter you will discover exactly how to add the visual learning
strategy for the ultimate success in mastering math facts!
 Chapter 4
How To Find Your Child’s Visual Memory Eye
Position for Math Facts Success
Preparation
Before beginning the Math Facts Made Easy success system, you will need
to know which way your child looks up when recalling an image. This
shows them how to add the visual learning style that makes learning math
facts faster and easier.
Don’t tell your child in advance what you are looking for but ask these
questions and notice whether your child looks up to the right or up to the
left side when recalling a picture or image.
You will use this location, either up to the left or up to the right, as you
teach the spelling strategy.
1. What does a picture in your room look like? Describe it to me –
colors, images, etc.
2. Who is your favorite actor or actress? Tell me exactly what they
look like? Hair color, eye color, facial features? What were they
wearing in your favorite movie the last time you saw that movie?
You can continue asking your child questions like what their best friend
looks like, or what their bike looks like, etc. until you notice that your child
looks up to the left or the right when they recall the image. That location
(up left or up right), is called their visual eye-brain connection.
It’s important before starting to teach the spelling strategy that you know
where your child looks as he or she recalls a picture. This is called the
Visual Eye-Brain Connection and is used in every learning strategy where
children will be tested in writing.
Here’s a little more detail on the visual-brain eye connection:
Ask your child questions that require them to access a picture in order to
answer. When they look upward to the left or the right, it is as if they have
an internal blackboard or movie screen in their mind. It is important that
you continue asking questions until your child or student looks up to the left
or up to the right. You are going to use this location later to place their
spelling words in.
Use the following examples so that your child must get a picture in his or
her mind in order to answer the questions: (hint: do not tell your child ahead
of time what you are looking for)…
Get a picture in your mind of our house. How many windows can
you count?
Get a picture of your best friend in your mind. Tell me exactly how
he or she looks. What color is his/her hair, eyes, etc.?
What was your mother, friend or teacher wearing yesterday? Get a
picture in your mind and tell me what color shirt did he/she have on?
Describe your favorite movie to me. Tell me exactly how a character
or scene looked.

Remember! Visual memory eye movements are not the same for every
person. You must determine whether it is UP to their left or UP to their right
side. (It's easier to do this when you do not tell the person ahead of time
what you are looking for.)
If you are a teacher and have several children, you can record the visual
memory locations with an L or R by their names in the roll book so you will
remember their eye movement location when you want them to recall
information in a picture form. It will either be up left or up right for each
student.
Now, when you teach anything that requires visual memory (i.e. spelling,
math facts, reading comprehension: pictures of the story), you can actually
use that eye movement information to physically place the word or
information to be learned either up to the left or up to the right, so that
retrieval is consistently successful.
You will actually be showing the student how to access visual memory by
having them use their eye movements to see a picture in their mind.
Now that you know whether your child looks up to the left or up to the right
(this is called their visual-brain eye memory position), you can begin
teacher the Math Facts Made Easy learning success system.
 Chapter 5
“How To” Add the Visual Learning Styles Strategy
for Math Facts Mastery Success in Addition and
Subtraction
Materials You Will Need:
Math Facts Triangles (print these out on colored paper) – get them in
your FREE workbook here:
http://www.howtolearn.com/free-math-facts-made-easy-book
Fine tipped colored markers (crayons tend to be too thick)
Addition and Subtraction
1. While playing the Mozart Effect music found at
http://www.howtolearn.com/products/mozart-effect and recommended in the
resource section to enhance learning.
Then get your special triangles for this strategy found in the FREE Math
Facts Made Easy Companion Workbook
at http://www.howtolearn.com/free-math-facts-made-easy-book
2. Print out the triangles on different colors of paper. Your child may use
their colored markers on any triangle they choose or just those they need
extra practice on. Notice that the triangles are designed to help your child
learn addition and subtraction in half the time.
3. Tell your child that they will learn their first fact over the next 2 days. This
reduces anxiety. On the first day you will tell your child that she does not
have to learn the fact today. This takes the pressure off of the thought of
immediate mastery.
4. On the second day, tell her that today she will learn the fact. That way,
your child is already familiar with the fact.
5. Your child will hold his or her triangle up above their eye level and in
their upper right or upper left visual memory position.
You discovered where your child’s visual memory position in
Chapter 4.
You might call this their magic math screen, or tell them to tune into
their math channel when reminding them to look up and to their right or
left.
6. Ask your child if they would like to learn the exact strategy of children
who have an easy time with math facts. Explain that kids who have an easy
time see the math facts in pictures just as if they are seeing a movie screen
in their mind.
Remind them that this movie screen or magic math facts screen is either
up to their left or up to their right. Check to make sure that your child
knows where their screen is located.
7. As they are holding the fact in their visual memory position, have your
child look at the fact while you say, as an example; 9 + 8 is and have him or
her fill in the answer aloud.
Then reverse the order saying: 8+9 equals _____ and have your child say
the answer aloud.
8. Next say 17 minus 9 is ______ and 17 minus 8 is _________ and have
your child say the answer aloud.
9. Have your child trace each of the numbers with their finger as you hold
the card in the visual memory eye position.
10. As they trace the numbers, they will also say the fact aloud in the various
ways it can be presented. Have a lot of fun with this part as it will help each
child get the feel of the fact while relying on the picture.
11. Now tell your child that their eyes are actually like a video camera and
they can remember all their facts looking up to the same picture memory
location where they have studied them. Have them snap a picture of the fact
and take the triangle away.
12. Have your child draw the triangle in the air with their fingers and say
the fact aloud just as before. 9 + 8 is ; 8+9 is ________ ; and 17 minus 9 is
________ and 17 minus 8 is _________.
13. Let your child know that he or she will be taking a written test on this
fact in all forms.
Then prepare a written test with each way the fact can be presented.
Remind your child to look at their magic math screen to get their answers
before writing their answers down. Give your child the test.
14. Have your child compare what they have written with what is on their
triangle.
IMPORTANT: If you notice that any of their answers are incorrect, simply
have them decorate their triangle with a fun drawing and practice the fact
again. DO NOT SAY ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS OTHER
THAN LET’S DECORATE YOUR TRIANGLE UP IN A FUN OR
COOL WAY.
Then, simply practice the steps above over again and when you child has
gotten their fact correctly it can be extremely effective for them to reward
themselves kinesthetically when their answer is correct. Tell them to clap
or pat themselves on the back as you say “ good job.” This gives them a
type of anchor they can re-use and rely on when they do a great job and
get the answers correct.
See chapter 6 for multiplication and division success strategy which is
similar but has different types of triangles.
 Chapter 6
Multiplication And Division Facts
Made Easy Strategy
The multiplication and division process is virtually the same as the
addition and subtraction one above. However, you will be using a
triangle of a different type so the child can distinguish between the
operations.
Use the type of triangle you find in the workbook here and print these
out on colored paper. The follow the same procedure as for addition
and subtraction.
http://www.howtolearn.com/free-math-facts-made-easy-book
Success Hints!
1. Insure student success and build confidence by introducing the strategy
with just one fact. When you do introduce more facts, you’re your time and
make sure your child or student is confident and successful first.
2. Shorten math fact test lists until the child is totally confident in their
new abilities. (You might make a special arrangement with your child’s
teacher for two or three weeks until your child gains success and
confidence). Make absolutely certain that each time the child studies he or
she is using the visual memory strategy with the eye-brain connection.
Enjoy your success and watch your child master their math facts quickly!
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