Multiplication practice

Free online times tables practice for kids: pick tables 1 to 20 and answer one fact at a time. Missed facts come back. No sign-up.

🧒 Kids: pick your times tables, tap Start! 🚀 and answer each question. Get them all right for ⭐⭐⭐!

Ready-made practice rounds

One click sets up the trainer. Each link is good for a 5-minute session.

• 2, 5 and 10 times tables · the first three to learn
• 3 and 4 times tables · doubling tables
• The hard facts: 6, 7, 8 and 9 · the tables most kids need extra practice on
• Mixed 1–12 with a 6-second timer · end of grade 3 check
• 1–12 speed round, 4 seconds · fluency test
• Missing numbers: 7 × ? = 56 · builds division facts
• 11 and 12 times tables · grade 4 extension
• 13 to 20 times tables · challenge for grades 5 and 6

One table at a time (chart, trick and practice): 2 times table · 3 times table · 4 times table · 5 times table · 6 times table · 7 times table · 8 times table · 9 times table · 10 times table · 11 times table · 12 times table · 13 times table · 14 times table · 15 times table · 16 times table · 17 times table · 18 times table · 19 times table · 20 times table

Which settings for which grade?

How to use the multiplication trainer

1. Pick the times tables. Tap the numbers, or use a shortcut such as “2, 5, 10” or “Hard: 6–9”.
2. Choose “Multiply by”. “Up to 10” for grade 3, “up to 12” for most schools, “up to 20” for a challenge.
3. Choose the number of questions and a timer. Start with no timer. Add a timer only when your child is mostly right.
4. Answer each fact. Type the answer and press Enter, or use the number pad on a phone or tablet.
5. Read the trick when a fact is missed. The fact comes back a few questions later for a second try.
6. Check the results. The fact map shows every fact in green (quick), yellow (right but slow) or red (missed). Press “Practice these facts” to go straight back to the missed ones.

How fast is “fluent”?

A child knows a multiplication fact when the answer comes from memory in about 3 seconds, without counting on fingers or skip counting. Counting still gets the right answer, but it is slow, and it uses up the attention children need for bigger problems like 47 × 6 or long division.

That is why the trainer has three speeds. 10 seconds gives time to use a strategy. 6 seconds nudges children to remember rather than count. 4 seconds is a fluency check: if a fact is right at 4 seconds, it is in long-term memory.

Ready to race the clock? Try the 1-minute multiplication speed test. Accuracy comes first, though: a child who gets 18 out of 20 with no timer is ready for a timer; a child who gets 12 out of 20 needs fewer tables and more tricks, not more speed.

Why missed facts come back

When your child misses a fact, the trainer shows the answer and a trick, then asks the same fact again about four questions later. Getting it right a few minutes after a mistake is what moves a fact into memory. Children see that a mistake is not the end of the round, just a fact they get to try again.

The “Practice my tricky facts” button goes one step further. It remembers, on your device, which facts were missed or slow across all rounds, and builds a round of just those facts.

When a fact won’t stick

Most children know about 80 of the 100 facts to 10 × 10 well before they know the last 20. These are the usual hard ones, with a way to work each out from a fact that is already known:

Remember the turn-around rule as well: 8 × 3 is the same as 3 × 8. Once a child knows the 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 tables, only a handful of 6, 7 and 8 facts are left. The times tables lesson has a trick for every table from 2 to 12.

A 5-minute daily routine

• Minute 1: say this week’s table out loud, forwards and backwards.
• Minutes 2–4: one 20-question round in the trainer on this week’s table plus last week’s.
• Minute 5: look at the fact map together and press “Practice these facts” for anything red.

Add a new table each week. Every Friday, do a mixed round of all the tables learned so far. Print the result and keep it: seeing the green spread week by week is great motivation.

For parents and teachers

• Share a round: set it up, press “Copy a link to these settings”, and send the link. Everyone who opens it gets the same tables, questions and timer.
• Print results: after a round, type the child’s name and press “Print results” for a one-page record with the fact map.
• Private by design: no account, no names stored online. Recent rounds stay in this browser only.
• On paper too: pair the trainer with the multiplication facts worksheets or the mixed times tables worksheets.

More multiplication practice

• Multiplication speed test: how many facts can you answer in 1 minute?
• Times Table Blaster: a fast arcade game for the times tables.
• More multiplication games: racing, matching, bingo and arrays.
• Multiplication chart: a printable 1–12 chart to keep on the desk.
• Multiplication strategies: seven ways to work out a fact you have not learned yet.
• How to learn the times tables: the best order and a trick for each table.
• Times table worksheets: 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12
• Next steps: 2-digit by 1-digit · 2-digit by 2-digit · division facts

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