Multiplication tables

There is no substitute for knowing your times tables. By key stage 3 at the latest you need to know them off by heart, quickly and accurately. They help you with long multiplication, long division, and many practical problems.

Have a look at this page. It is worth thinking about the tables backwards. If you just look at the tables up to 9, there is only one number in the 80s which is in a times table (81 = 9 x 9) and only one in the 70s. There are only two 60s and only two 50s. Thinking about the tables this way around can help you. If you are trying to remember 7x8 it cant be 58 or 55 or 52 because the only numbers in the 50s are 54 and 56. Have a look at the tables.