Question

What are dodging tables?

Answer 1

Hint:In the above given question, we are given dodging tables. We have to explain in brief about the dodging tables. In order to approach the solution, first we should know about the common ordinary tables which are taught to everyone in their initial standards of the school. While the ordinary tables are the complete multiplication tables of natural numbers like 1, 2, 3,... , which contain the product of each of these natural numbers by the other natural numbers from 1 to 10, where the dodging tables are another kind of table which are in fact, a method to write down the ordinary tables.

Complete step by step answer:
Since we have to briefly explain about the dodging tables, first we should explain the ordinary tables which are known as the multiplication tables.The multiplication tables are used to learn the product of the natural numbers up to the multiplication of 1 to 10.

An example of the multiplication table is given below.
Multiplication table of 2:

\[2 \times 1 = \]	\[2\]
\[2 \times 2 = \]	\[4\]
\[2 \times 3 = \]	\[6\]
\[2 \times 4 = \]	\[8\]
\[2 \times 5 = \]	\[10\]
\[2 \times 6 = \]	\[12\]
\[2 \times 7 = \]	\[14\]
\[2 \times 8 = \]	\[16\]
\[2 \times 9 = \]	\[18\]
\[2 \times 10 = \]	\[20\]

This is the correct way to write the complete multiplication table of a natural number.
Now, the dodging tables are a different method to write the multiplication tables of different numbers.The main difference in dodging tables are that the complete products are not written of the same natural number, instead of that the products of these numbers are written at random.By using this method of tables, it helps the students to randomly memorise the product of any two natural numbers.
An example of the dodging table is given below.

\[7 \times 8 = \]	___
\[12 \times 2 = \]	___
\[9 \times 5 = \]	___
\[4 \times 8 = \]	___
\[8 \times 15 = \]	___
\[18 \times 6 = \]	___
\[9 \times 17 = \]	___
\[13 \times 7 = \]	___
\[11 \times 3 = \]	___
\[10 \times 10 = \]	___

In such tables, the students have to fill the number in the blank space by themselves which improves their multiplication skills.These tables are known as the dodging tables.

Note:The dodging tables do not need to be always written in the above form. Sometimes the blank space contained in the multiplication of a number can be rearranged at the place of the first or the second numbers or the blank space can be replaced by an alphabet or a variable. Such as the table given below.

\[2 \times \_\_ = \]	\[18\]
\[A \times 12 = \]	\[24\]