Times tables practice that fits your class
By the end of grade 3, children are expected to “know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers”, in the words of the Common Core standard 3.OA.7. Fluent facts pay off for years: long multiplication, long division, equivalent fractions and simplifying all lean on them. This page starts with the 2 to 12 tables, each times 1 to 12, as 40 facts in a row. Tick or untick the table buttons to choose exactly what to practise.
How to use it
- One new table at a time. Tick the table you are working on plus the ones already known. Mixing old facts in stops them fading while the new one settles.
- Times range. Set Times to 1 to 10 if your class learns tables only up to ten, or 0 to 12 to include the zero facts and the 11s and 12s.
- Facts. Multiplication prints 7 × 8 = ___; Division prints 56 ÷ 7 = ___; Both, mixed mixes them on one sheet.
- Timed drills. Many teachers run the same kind of sheet for a few minutes a day. Different sheets under Printing gives every day (or every child) new facts of the same tables, each with its own answer key page and code.
Reading the results
Mark with the answer key at the end of the PDF; the code in the corner of each sheet matches its key. Look at which facts were missed rather than at the score alone: mistakes usually cluster in one or two tables, often the 6s, 7s and 8s. Untick everything except those tables for the next sheet, and the practice goes where it is needed. When a child gets a full sheet right without hurrying, add the next table.