FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen ; The first of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between ; Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent King. Answer— David.

My first she was a serving maidShe went to fetch some tea ; How much she brought my second tells As plainly as M ean be. Now when the answer you have found, Name it to others too ; My whole is just the very thing, In telling them, you'll do. . Answer — Announce.

A Curious Fact About the Multiplication Table.— Professor Paul Carus invented this little device to help one of his children over the difficult point of remembering the table of multiplication by nine. Put the two' hands together on the table, palms down, and give each finger and thumb a number from one to ten, beginning at the left. Now, if you wish to.find the product of,' say, nine times' six, raise the. finger that is numbered six, count fingers and thumb on the left for the tens place of the product ; count the lingers on the right of the raised finger for the units. In this case you have 54. The rule will hold true for all the numbers. Most children will not need this device in learning to multiply, but it is a * curious faet ' • ' ' 1., i1 IJ