Comment by poseid

without training, our brains confuses numbers easily from my experience. my niece is learning multiplication tables right now, and she confuses 8 * 7 = 56. we tried to teach her these numbers with a story, or a shortcut, e.g. 5 6 7 8 . see the groups 56 and 7*8. but still she rather found this kind of symbol processing painful and preferred to play with other things. another approach we tried to show her a visual representation of the multiplication but not sure what her current progress is.