Occasional memorization, such as the multiplication tables, can be helpful. This is because your brain naturally begins to analyze the patterns and relationships it sees as you embed the tables in your brain. The embedding process helps you to get a naturally better feel for the numbers and how they relate to one another. But as always, it’s never a good idea to just memorize without having an understanding of what you’re doing. (It’s like memorizing a word in a foreign language without understanding what it means. How would you ever be able to use it later on?) And the more you practice using
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