TablesHow to use the practice round
- Tap the tables you want. A table you have just learnt, plus two older ones, is a good mix.
- Pick the kind of question. Start with "Find the answer". Move to missing numbers and division once the answers come easily.
- Press Start. Tap the digits and OK, or type and press Enter.
- At the end, look at the list of missed facts and press "Practise these again".
What a good score looks like
Accuracy comes first. Aim for every answer right, however long it takes. When a round is all correct three days running, look at the time. About three seconds a question is comfortable for a child who knows the facts, and two seconds is fluent. The best time for each set of tables is kept in this browser, so a child can try to beat their own record, not someone else's.
The three kinds of question
Find the answer is the plain table fact. Find the missing number asks the same fact from the other side and is the first step towards division and algebra. Division reads the table backwards. A child who can do all three for the same table truly knows it. Our page on division from tables explains the link.
The "Hard facts" set
This set asks only the facts that most children miss: 6 × 7, 6 × 8, 6 × 9, 7 × 7, 7 × 8, 7 × 9, 8 × 8, 8 × 9, 9 × 9 and a few more, in both orders. Five minutes on this set is worth half an hour of chanting. Routes to each of them are on the page of facts children get wrong.
For teachers
The round works on a phone, a tablet or a classroom screen, and needs no login. For paper practice with an answer key, use the times tables worksheet maker on our Worksheets site, or print charts from the print page.