This is a resource that leads the student to a beginning understanding of multiplication facts through counting. As a parent and grandparent I have counted with my children. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. YES! Then what? I work towards 20! THIS IS WHERE it becomes difficult. 13 is forgotten or 16 or 17. The mumbling begins??What if there was a better way?Success more frequently! 1, 23, 45, 67, 89, 10!!! Yea we counted to 10! With an emphasis on the even numbers begins the introduction