Times Tables Practice
Answer one fact at a time. The ones you miss come back a few questions later, and the chart fills in as facts become known.
More options2 to 12, up to × 12
Whose progress
A nickname only. Progress stays on this device (and in your backup), never in the link.
Tables to practise
Up to
Timer
Off by default. With a timer, a question that runs out of time comes back like a missed one.
6 × 9 =
Your progress, 2 to 12
- Known0
- Learning0
- Not tried66
Known: right three times in a row, each in under 6 seconds. Saved on this device.
How this works: Method, 4 sources,
How this works
Method
Every fact you answer is recorded for whoever is practising, under a nickname or as “You”, and given one of three states. A fact is known once it has been answered right 3 times in a row, each in under 6 seconds, the time England’s multiplication tables check allows. A fact tried but not yet known is still being learned, and a fact never asked is new. Full method
Sources
- Standards and Testing Agency, Multiplication tables check assessment framework (2018, updated 2022; Open Government Licence v3.0)
- Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3, 3.OA.C.7 (2010)
- Department for Education, National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study (2013)
- Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3 (3.OA.B.5, 3.OA.C.7) (2010)
Changes
- First published: the chart from 1–10 to 1–20, practice with progress for each person, printable charts and sheets, the 2 to 12 tables and check practice.
How practice picks the next question
Every fact you answer is recorded for whoever is practising, under a nickname or as “You”, and given one of three states. A fact is known once it has been answered right 3 times in a row, each in under 6 seconds, the time England’s multiplication tables check allows. A fact tried but not yet known is still being learned, and a fact never asked is new.
The next question is drawn at random from the tables you chose, weighted by state: a fact you missed last time counts 6 times, one being learned 4, a new one 3 and a known one 1, so known facts still come back now and then for review. A missed fact is also scheduled to return 3 questions later, and the last two questions are never asked again straight away.
So that new facts don’t pile up, once 6 facts are being learned, new ones arrive much more slowly until some of those are known. A slow right answer neither counts towards known nor sets the count back; only a wrong answer does.
known = right 3 times in a row, each under 6 s
- The Standards and Testing Agency treats the 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 tables as the hardest, and puts more of them in England’s year 4 multiplication tables check. Source: Standards and Testing Agency, Multiplication tables check assessment framework (2018, updated 2022; Open Government Licence v3.0).
- In the US, the Common Core expects students to know all products of two one-digit numbers from memory by the end of grade 3. Source: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3, 3.OA.C.7 (2010).
How many new facts each table adds
Learning the tables in England’s curriculum order (2, 5 and 10, then 3, 4 and 8, then the rest), counting × 2 to × 12. Each table adds fewer new facts, because many are already known turned round.
| Table | New facts | Facts so far | For example |
|---|---|---|---|
| + the 2 table | 11 | 11 | 2 × 2, 2 × 3, 2 × 4 |
| + the 5 table | 10 | 21 | 3 × 5, 4 × 5, 5 × 5 |
| + the 10 table | 9 | 30 | 3 × 10, 4 × 10, 6 × 10 |
| + the 3 table | 8 | 38 | 3 × 3, 3 × 4, 3 × 6 |
| + the 4 table | 7 | 45 | 4 × 4, 4 × 6, 4 × 7 |
| + the 8 table | 6 | 51 | 6 × 8, 7 × 8, 8 × 8 |
| + the 6 table | 5 | 56 | 6 × 6, 6 × 7, 6 × 9 |
| + the 7 table | 4 | 60 | 7 × 7, 7 × 9, 7 × 11 |
| + the 9 table | 3 | 63 | 9 × 9, 9 × 11, 9 × 12 |
| + the 11 table | 2 | 65 | 11 × 11, 11 × 12 |
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| + the 12 table | 1 | 66 | 12 × 12 |
Frequently Asked Questions
How many questions are in a round?
Twenty. At the end you see how many you got right and which facts to look at again; the chart shows every fact you know in green.
Does the timer have to be on?
No. Practice has no timer unless you choose 6 or 10 seconds under More options. Answer speed is still measured, because a fact only counts as known when you answer it within 6 seconds.
Can a parent or teacher see which facts are left?
Yes: choose Print, then Facts to learn. It lists every fact not yet known for the person practising, marked missed, being learned or not tried, with a practice sheet of those facts after it.
Is anything sent to a server?
No. Progress is kept in this browser, in the same place as the rest of your saved data on this site, so it goes into your backup file and folder sync but never to us.