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A linguist's take on why melody beats memorization drills I, Erik Kara, have a PhD in Applied Linguistics and spent years teaching kids before becoming a parent of two myself. Handing a 7-year-old a flashcard deck and expecting joy is not going to work. Times tables are one of the first places kids hit real math anxiety, and drilling tends to make it worse, not better. I still remember being in elementary school, listening to my classmates recite the times tables out loud bef