How is the methodology used in TURN the Tables different than traditional ways to teach the multiplication facts?

TURN the Tables gives students an explicit strategy and tools which incorporates multiple senses to master the multiplication facts. Students do not progress to the next set of facts until they have mastered the facts cumulatively. The most common way that the multiplication facts are taught is by simply giving timed tests. When a student passes a timed test on The 3s, he/she takes tests on The 4s until the test is passed and continues this pattern until he/she has passed up through The 10s or 12s. What oftentimes happens is that students do not retain the facts and by the time they get to The 5s, they have forgotten The 2s, 3s and 4s. They are only retaining the facts until they pass the test. They are not given a concrete way to recall the facts.