I am in the Sixth Reader but just because I cannot say the seven
multiplication Table Miss Dearborn threttens to put me in the baby primer class with Elijah and Elisha Simpson little twins.
I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the
multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.
However, the
Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography.
With a rule and a pair of scales, and the
multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
Not in navigation, of course, nor in affairs such as the
multiplication table, where the brass tacks of reality stud the way of one's ship among the rocks and shoals of the sea; but right, truth beyond truth to truth higher than truth, namely, intuitional truth."
He was quite frightened, and he tried to repeat the Lord's Prayer; but all he could do, he was only able to remember the
multiplication table.
I had to summon a good deal of courage to take a student who had been studying cube root and "banking and discount," and explain to him that the wisest thing for him to do first was thoroughly master the
multiplication table.
"School is dismissed," answered Rose, and with a grateful "Thank you, heaps and heaps!" Phebe ran away singing the
multiplication table as she set the tea ditto.
How the impertinences, ignorances, and insults went through the
multiplication table. How there was a reference of the invention to three Barnacles and a Stiltstalking, who knew nothing about it; into whose heads nothing could be hammered about it; who got bored about it, and reported physical impossibilities about it.
I've heard him say he studied the
multiplication table by her freckles."
Even when I was learning math, I remember having a hard time memorizing the
multiplication table in first grade.
But gone are the days when every school notebook on the market bore a
multiplication table on its back cover, along with useful units of conversion for weights and measures - rather than the popular animation characters or artists' photos now adorning today's school notebooks.