times tables

[smilesandsun]

Hi,

Any suggestions for fun, maybe interactive, ways to learn the times tables?

Thx

[mrz]

Percy Parker

[Flojo1979]

Learnt a new trick today. 9 x table. Hold both your hands up numbering your fingers across 1-10.
4 x 9 - put your 4th finger down and the answer, all the ones before it are tens i.e 3, and the rest r units i.e 6.
My 7 yo DS is most impressed!

[mrz]

I love the 9X table [hgrin]

[albachiara]

Timez attack (www.bigbrainz.com/), if you are looking for videogame style practice.

[caffeinated]

Squeebles times tables iPhone iPad app

[MorningPurples]

Times Table Clock iPhone/iPad app as well.

[Alliwantisaroomsomewhere]

I just tried the 9 x table on my hands and 8 yr old DS said "what ARE you doing??" So I showed him and now he loves me a little more .

[gabsid]

We spend about 3 min in the morening and 2 min in the evening learning xtables at the moment. First we try and make rhymes, think about how to remember them, e.g. inverse, recite them a few times, then do quick games on topmarks.co.uk or similar sites, or I just ask DS to recite as quick a possible or backwards, write down questions in different ways, divisions (e.g. 16/4= ... anything that's quick.

So far, over the summer a bit and since Sept he knows his 2,3,4,5 and 10s tables really well (without thinking or finger tricks). I hope another term or two and all his xtables (1-10) are solid.