For math, no. I learned the multiplication tables through a combination of Schoolhouse Rock and looking at a chart of the tables. Flashcards are more of a quiz, and if you get the answer wrong, you'll end up memorizing that fact wrong.

I saw this in my second child. I started using addition flashcards with her before she was ready, and she ended up memorizing several math facts wrong.

I had the best luck with both my older kids by using online math games like the ones at http://www.mathisfun.com and http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
and software like Mighty Math and Star Wars Math, together with math charts that they had a set time every day to study.

I do like flashcards for other things, but not math. And I think they don't go with every learning style. A person has to be most of the way there on basic familiarity before they're useful.

Other helpful things for rote memorization are learning songs (especially for auditory learners, or those if have auditory learning as one of their more dominant learning styles) and projects where the facts to be learned are used repeatedly.
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