How it works
This multiplication facts practice deck has a card for all 169 facts from 0 × 0 to 12 × 12. Pick one table or a mixed set, type each answer, and the back of the card shows a short way to work the fact out, such as 6 × 7 as 35 + 7. Missed facts collect in a pile of their own. Scores stay in this browser, with no sign-up.
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Pick a set, then type the answer
After All, Show only has 17 chips, one on at a time. Twelve are single tables for times tables practice: the 0s and 1s share 26 cards, and the 2s to the 12s have 13 each. Four mixed sets hold a fact both ways round, so 3 × 8 and 8 × 3 are separate cards, and Square numbers is the 13 facts where a number multiplies itself. The page opens in Quiz: type an answer, then press Check or the Enter key. To switch on any tables you like, use the multiplication flash cards.
What the back of each card teaches
Every back gives the answer and one short way to reach it, leaning on the easier factor. 9 × 2 reads same as 2 × 9: double 9 is 18. 4 × 7 doubles 7 twice, 14 then 28. 9 × 7 takes 7 from 70, 6 × 7 adds one more 7 to 35, and 12 × 7 splits 12 into 10 and 2. Eight of the 7s count days in weeks. Common Core standard 3.OA.5 names such properties as strategies: its example works 8 × 7 as 40 + 16.
The missed pile, timed rounds and printing
A wrong answer puts the card on the missed pile, and a right answer takes it off. Stuck? Press Check twice on an empty box: the answer shows and the card joins the pile. Press Missed to practice only those cards. Press Timed, pick 1, 2, 3 or 5 minutes, then Start round. A best score is kept for each length. After one card, the first Print button lays 12 cards on a Letter or A4 page, each followed by a mirrored page of answers. Print two-sided, flipped on the long edge: one table is 2 sheets, the full deck 15. No two-sided printer? The second button prints fold-over cards. With Missed pressed, only missed cards print.
- England teaches the 2s, 5s and 10s first, then the 3s, 4s and 8s, and two mixed chips follow that order. With the 0 and 1 rules, those tables cover 144 of the 169 cards.
- After that, only six one-digit facts are new: 6 × 6, 6 × 7, 6 × 9, 7 × 7, 7 × 9 and 9 × 9. Tricky 6s to 9s holds them, with the hard 8s, on 16 cards.
- After a miss, have the child read the working aloud and finish with the whole fact: six times seven is forty-two.
- Print with the tool's Print buttons. The browser's Print command adds the article and the fact list.
- This browser reopens the page on the chip you chose last. Share, shown once you press a chip, makes a link to that chip.
Questions and answers
How many multiplication facts are there from 0 × 0 to 12 × 12?
There are 169, but far fewer need memorizing. 48 contain a 0 or a 1 and follow two rules. Most of the rest come in pairs, such as 3 × 7 and 7 × 3, which share an answer. From 2 × 2 to 9 × 9 there are 36 different facts.
What does multiplication fact fluency mean?
Common Core standard 3.OA.7 asks students to fluently multiply and divide within 100 and, by the end of Grade 3, to know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers. A working reading of fluent is accurate, quick, and able to rebuild a forgotten fact from a known one. The worked line on each card shows one way to do that.
Is there an official speed for times tables?
England sets one. Its multiplication tables check, taken in June of Year 4, asks 25 questions on tables up to 12 and allows 6 seconds for each, with no pass mark. Common Core names no time. At 6 seconds a card, a 1 minute round is 10 right answers, a fair target once answers are accurate.
Why is any number times 0 equal to 0?
Multiplying counts equal groups. 4 × 0 is 4 groups of nothing, and 0 × 4 is no groups at all, so both are 0. A child who answers 4 may be thinking of 4 + 0, so the back of 4 × 0 ends with Not 4 + 0.
What is the best way to practice multiplication facts?
Work on a small set, then mix it with older ones. Pick one chip and clear its missed pile. Then move to a mixed chip, where the new table has to be told apart from tables already known. Save timed rounds for facts that are already accurate.