Memorization is crucial and a precursor to higher level thinking. The goal of the I’ve Got Skills incentive is to encourage 3rd grade students at Caruthers Elementary School to strive, to learn, and memorize their multiplication facts. In order to help motivate students to achieve this goal, students were rewarded with a T-shirt that says, “I’ve got skills---I’m multiplying,” along with a picture of the multiplication chart once students passed their facts within a given time frame. Memorizing multiplication facts is still an important skill that students will use far into the future.