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Musical Math #2: Multiplication Mountain

We've been pressing on with our memorization of math facts.  Autumn just finished up her addition facts on XtraMath.com  and was excited to begin her subtraction facts. A month ago, I posted a review of a skip-counting cd, 100 Sheep and Counting , that my family has loved.  Today I want to post a review of a second cd:   Multiplication Mountain by Hap Palmer. Hap Palmer has been making educational kids' albums for many years.   Multiplication Mountain was published in 2009.  Many of his cds are a mixture of different concepts, but this one focuses solely on multiplication.  The cd has two tracks for every number.  The first fills in the answers for each multiplication fact.  The second song leaves a blank for children to fill in the answer to the multiplication facts.  My daughter likes this a lot.  Each song is a different tune--which I think matters.  A child is trying to remember the facts and the tune will run th...