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Times Table worksheets for KS2 - Free for all. Ideal for home schooling.

Times Table worksheets for KS2 - Free for all. Ideal for home schooling.

Subject: Mathematics

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

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9 January 2023

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Engaging activities for multiplication facts. FREE, AS A GIFT FOR ALL IN 2020. :-)

These multiplication fact sheets have been a great hit with my students, and I’m sure they will be with yours too. They will help students understand the concept of multiplication, as well as memorize their multiplication facts. They can be used as morning work, bell work, extra activities for early finishers, or even homework. Every page is aligned to the Common Core Standards.

Students will learn to:

  • identify numbers in times tables
  • work out spellings of numbers in cryptic puzzles.
  • sequence numbers forwards and backwards
  • explore the relationship between multiplication and division
  • compare calculations
  • process information in word problems

The activities not only test a child’s math skills, they also encourage them to use logic, reasoning and comprehension skills.

Each worksheet is double sided and space is maximised to challenge your children with TEN different times table related activities linked to the table you are studying. Answers are provided. Your children will become familiar with the format as they work their way through the exercises table by table.

Your children will certainly enjoy this different approach to learning their times tables!

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Times Tables Games To Play At KS1 & KS2: Free & Fun Ways To Learn Tables Fast

Sophie bessemer.

Times tables games are one of the best ways to help young learners with their multiplication tables. So here, for all parents and teachers looking for ideas to inject more enthusiasm into learning times tables, are our 35 favourite times tables games, organised by year group and times table.

These times tables activities have been deliberately selected for their ease of use: most don’t need any additional resources at all; some require just a pen and paper, or a pack of cards, or some board game counters.

Teaching and learning times tables

About these times tables games, best times tables games key stage 1, year 1 times tables games, year 2 times tables games, best times tables games key stage 2, year 3 times tables games, year 4 times tables games, year 5 times tables games, year 6 times tables games, more of our most popular ks2 maths articles.

All of these times tables activities are suitable for use in primary school and most are also easily adaptable to do at home at the kitchen table or even out on a walk. We’ve been sure to include a few active maths times tables games too to get children running around as they learn.

Looking for fun games and activities to boost pupils’ learning? We’ve got several articles sharing teacher approved maths activities and fun maths games , including KS2 maths games , KS1 maths games and KS3 maths games for all maths topics and a set of 35 times tables games and multiplication games you’ll want to bookmark whichever year group you teach!

As most teachers or parents will know it’s not an easy task teaching times tables but spare a thought for children, many of whom struggle to learn their times tables. They will get there but it takes time.

Times table or multiplication games are a fun way to inject enthusiasm into the learning process and support everyone to keep working at it.

Like all maths games they work best in the context of a strong whole school approach to teaching times tables from Year 1 (and sometimes earlier). We’ve got lots of sound advice on how and why children need to learn times tables on this blog so read these first before you move on to times tables games.

  • Times table grid
  • How to learn times tables
  • Times tables at home

And of course, the times table check is now compulsory in Year 4 so that adds an additional impetus on schools and families to support children to master their tables.

All these times tables games are adapted from our premium resource The Ultimate Times Tables Resource Pack. This is available as part of a subscription to our Maths Hub and includes a range of times tables tests, quizzes, times tables worksheets and lots more other times tables maths activities and guidance to support a really secure depth of knowledge of times tables.

We’ve suggested the times table for each game but most of these games can be adapted for times tables fun on whichever times table you need to practise.

A few of the games we’ve selected need some printed material. This is all included as part of the Ultimate Times Tables Resource Pack; we’ve also included a small download of the essential ones here, so look out for the free Times Tables Games Printable Resources .

In Year 1, times tables are introduced using the terms ‘lots of’ and ‘groups of’ only – there is no use of the multiplication symbol or writing formal multiplication sentences. Counting up and down in 2s, 5s and 10s starts.

2 Times Table Games for Year 1

2 times tables up the stairs.

Using cubes, can you make a staircase using multiples of 2?

What you need : Interconnecting cubes e.g. Numicon, parents may find it easier to use Lego ‘2 bits’.

How to play:

  • Step 1: Explain to children that they will be building a staircase out of cubes, using their knowledge of multiples of 2 to help. If needed, discuss features of a staircase and what their staircase may look like.
  • Step 2: Provide children with interconnecting cubes. Together, create the first three stairs of the staircase, saying the multiples of 2 (e.g. 2, 4, 6) as you build.
  • Step 3: Invite children to continue building their staircases, and each time they add a new stair, to say which multiple of 2 they have ‘built’.

Suitable for : home, school

5 Times Table Games for Year 1

Make the fives.

Can you make numbers from groups of five objects?

What you need: cubes/counters/beads or similar object.

  • Step 1: Before starting the activity arrange for each child to have access to a large number of items, such as cubes or counters or beads.
  • Step 2: Call out a multiple of 5 (e.g. 30).
  • Step 3: Explain that the children’s challenge is to work alone or in pairs to race to make groups of five out of the objects they have been given until they have the number that you have called (e.g. for 30, they would need to make six groups of 5 out of their objects).
  • Step 4: Once children have finished making the number called out of groups of five, count in 5s to the number, and identify how many groups of 5 are needed to make that number.
  • Step 5: Repeat with other multiples of 5.

Suitable for : home, school.

Suitable for: school (could be adapted for home)

10 Times Table Games for Year 1

Mean 90 game.

Watch out for ‘mean 90’ in this counting game!

What you need: Mini whiteboards and pens for each child playing. You can use ordinary paper instead of whiteboards.

  • Step 1: Arrange children so that they are sitting in a circle and each has a mini whiteboard or piece of paper and pen at their feet. Ensuring that the adult leading the game is part of the circle.
  • Step 2: The adult starts by saying ‘0’.
  • Step 3: The next child (in the direction chosen by the adult) says the next multiple of 10 (i.e. 10).
  • Step 4: Children continue passing the ‘count’ around the circle. If a child has to say ‘90’ then they have ‘Mean 90’ and they must sit down.
  • Step 5: The count then continues, until it reaches 100. Then it starts again from 0. Each time a player has to say ‘90’ they sit down.
  • Step 6: Players who are sat down have to then predict (using their reasoning skills) on their mini whiteboard who will be the next player to be ‘out’. Two children ‘win’ the game, the last child standing, and the child who has achieved the most ‘predictions’ correctly.

Suitable for : school.

Speedy Tens

Who can win the most cards in this game?

What you need: Medium digit cards 0-10 (create yourself or see download).

  • Step 1: Before launching the activity, place children in pairs, and give each pair a set of digit cards from 1-9. You can make these yourself by writing out on separate pieces of paper or card the digits from 1 to 9 or use the large digit cards provided in the resource sheets. You can do this activity at home with just yourself and your child.
  • Step 2: Children take it in turns to turn over a digit card. They then have to say how ‘many’ there are in that number groups of 10. For example, if they turned over 5, they would need to say 50.
  • Step 3: Children can count out loud, or in their heads. The first child to say the correct answer ‘wins’ the card.
  • Step 4: Children then repeat, turning over another card.The player with the highest number of cards at the end wins.

Suitable for: home, school.

Times Tables Printable Resource Pack

Free printable versions of any resources required to complete the times tables games including the Find the cheese board game

In Year 2, continue to build fluency and introduce multiplication and division symbols and link multiplication and division facts as well as the concept of ‘sharing’. Children will start to consolidate their 2s, 5s, and 10s. Some rote learning is fine.

2 Times Table Games for Year 2

Multiples of 2 flashcards.

Can you join the two’s band? We are going to create a band that plays their instruments based on the multiples of 2 they say.

What you need: Musical instrument per child, Multiples of 2 flashcards (create yourself or see download).

  • Step 1: Every child playing requires an instrument or a toy to bang.
  • Step 2: Either use the flashcards provided in the resource or write out on small pieces of paper all the multiples of 2 up to 20: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.
  • Step 3: Distribute 1 or more of these cards to each child (or adult) playing. As a group, the aim is to make a noise when your multiple comes around.
  • Step 4: Start counting through the multiples of 2. How quickly can you go?

Suitable for: home, school

Two for Tennis?

Can you play tennis by counting forwards and backwards in 2s?

What you need : Nothing

  • Step 1: Arrange children into pairs, and ask children to imagine they are playing a game of tennis, but instead of passing a ball between each other, they are passing multiples of 5.
  • Step 2: Challenge children to count in multiples of 2, starting with 0.
  • Step 3: Each child in the pair takes it in turns to say a multiple of 2, and the other child says the next multiple of 2, and so on. When they reach 24, they then return back to 0 in reverse.
  • Step 4: If a child takes more than three seconds to say the next multiple of 2, or if they make a mistake, they have ‘dropped the ball’ and are out.
  • Step 5: The child who says 0 for the second time scores the ‘match point’ and wins.
  • Step 6: Repeat, changing the ‘match point’ number to another multiple of 2 if you wish.

5 Times Table Games for Year 2

5s blast off.

Can you count in 5s to 50 without speaking at the same time?

What you need: Nothing.

  • Step 1: Before launching the activity, arrange the children into small groups, groups of 7-12 work best.
  • Step 2: Ask each group to sit in a circle, so that they can see the other people in their group.
  • Step 3: Explain their challenge is to count in steps of 5 from 0 to 50, but that there is a twist!
  • Step 4: Explain that only one child is allowed to speak at a time. If two children start to speak at the same time, then they have to start again, from 5. If a mistake is made, for example the wrong number is said, then they also have to start again.
  • Step 5: For example, one child would say 5, another 10, another 15, but if two children say a number at the same time, they need to start again.
  • How long will it take before they can get to 50, without speaking over each other?

Ready for Take Off?

Can you reach 0 and get your ‘rocket’ to take off by counting backwards from 70 in 5s?

What you need : Nothing.

  • Step 1: Before launching the activity, arrange the children into small groups. Groups of 7 – 12 work best.
  • Step 2: Ask each group to sit in a circle, so that they can see the other children in their group.
  • Step 3: Their challenge is to count from 70 to 0 in steps of 5, when they get to 0, they all need to shout ‘Take Off’ as their ‘rocket’ has launched!
  • Step 4: Explain that only one child is allowed to speak at a time. If two children start to speak at the same time, then they have to start again, from 70. If a mistake is made, for example the wrong number is said, they also have to start again.
  • Step 5: For example, one child would say 70, another 65, another 60, but if two children say a number at the same time, they need to start again.
  • Step 6: How long will it take before they can get to ‘take off’, without anyone speaking over each other?

10 Times Table Games for Year 2

Tens meet in the middle.

Which numbers will you meet in this active game?

What you need: A medium sized area (hall or carpeted area), Tens meet in the middle resource cards (see download).

  • Step 1: Print and cut the cards from the ‘Tens Meet in the Middle’ resource sheet and give one to each child.
  • Step 2: Children walk around the space, and when you call ‘MEET’ they find a partner.
  • Step 3: They look at the number being held by their partner, and give at least two multiplication or division facts from the ten times table that are linked to that number.
  • Step 4: When both partners have successfully provided facts for each others numbers, the partners switch cards, and go and find another partner.
  • Step 5: Repeat, for 2-5 minutes with children giving related facts and switching cards and then finding new partners.

Suitable for: school.

Race the Tens

Can you race the numbers you have been given to the other side of the room?

What you need : Space for this activity, cards from Tens meet in the middle resource (see download).

  • Step 1: Give each pair a set of 13 cards with the multiples of 10 from 10 – 120 (plus 0) using the ‘Tens Meet in the Middle’ cards if needed.
  • Step 2: Place each pair at one side of a large space (indoor or outdoor).
  • Step 3: Call out a multiplication fact from the ten times table (e.g. 3 x 10 = ?)
  • Step 4: Each pair then has to select the answer from their cards, and race them to the other side of the room, place the card there and race back to the starting point.
  • Step 5: Then call out a different multiplication fact. As you progress through the multiplication facts, begin to ask children to give you a multiplication fact that you could give that has an answer that they are ‘left’ with. Occasionally repeat facts that they have already transferred the answer to (in which case they do not ‘run’).
  • Step 6: Continue until all multiples of 10 have been transferred to the other side of the playing area.

Read more on developing good mental maths knowledge

  • 33 Mental Maths Strategies Every Pupil Should Know By End of KS2
  • How To Nail Your Number Facts
  • What Are Number Bonds: Explained for Primary School Parents

In Year 3, children start learning their multiplication facts of the 3, 4, and 8 times tables. The 4 and 8 times tables are introduced as related to the 2 times tables (doubling each time). 5 times table and 2 times table should now be solid so it’s worth practising these too.

2 Times Tables Game for Year 3

Divided twos.

Can you win this game of division bingo?

What you need: Mini whiteboards/pieces of paper.

  • Step 1: On a mini whiteboard or piece of scrap paper, ask children to each write down six different ‘bingo’ numbers between 1 and 12.
  • Step 2: Call out any division question that is linked to the two times table.
  • Step 3: If children have the answer to the question on their whiteboard or paper, they cross it off.
  • Step 4: Try to vary the language used, for example, you may say 20 divided by 2 is…’ or ‘6 in groups of three is…’
  • Step 5: Once a child has crossed off all of their numbers, they should stand up and shout ‘DIVIDED TWOS’ before the adult checks to make sure that all of their numbers have been called.
  • Step 6: The child has to then explain to the group why they have been able to cross at least three of their numbers.

3 Times Table Games for Year 3

Threes in the middle.

What 3 times table facts will you meet in this game?

What you need: A medium sized area for the activity, Multiples of 3 cards up to 36 resource (see download).

  • Step 1: Print and cut the cards from the ‘multiples of 3’ resource sheet and give one card to each child.
  • Step 3: They look at the number being held by their partner, and give at least two multiplication or division facts from the 3 times table that are linked to that number.
  • Step 4: When both partners have successfully provided facts for each other’s numbers, the partners switch cards, and go and find another partner.
  • Step 5: Repeat, for 2 to 5 minutes with children giving related facts and switching cards and then finding new partners.

Suitable for: School.

Claim the Threes!

Who can claim all the cards first?

What you need: Multiples of 3 cards up to 36 resource (see download).

  • Step 1: Give each pair a cut up set of the cards from the ‘multiples of 3’ resource sheet. Have them deal them between each other. You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Children take it in turns to turn over one of their cards.
  • Step 3: They then race to say a division fact, that is linked to the 3 times table, and place their hand on the card.
  • Step 4: The first player to give a correct division fact, that is linked to the 3 times table, wins the card. For example, if the card said 24, children could say ‘24 divided by 3 is 8’ or ‘24 divided by 8 is 3’ but not ‘24 divided by 2 is 12’.
  • Step 5: If a player incorrectly ‘claims’ the card by stating an incorrect or unlinked division fact, then the other player gains the card.
  • Step 6: Play continues until either player gains all the cards or the time you have set is up. If both players still have cards, the one with the most cards wins.

4 Times Table Games for Year 3

Terrible twenty-eight.

Watch out for the number 28 in this ‘fact passing’ game!

What you need: Mini whiteboards.

  • Step 1: Arrange children so that they are standing in a circle, with a mini whiteboard and pen at their feet. The adult leading the game should be part of the circle. A child, chosen by the adult, starts by saying ‘0 x 4 = 0’
  • Step 2: The next child (in the direction chosen by the adult) says the next multiplication fact for the 4 times table (i.e. 1 x 4 = 4)
  • Step 3: Children continue passing the ‘count’ around the circle.
  • Step 4: If a child has to say ‘7 x 4 = 28’ then they are out, and have to sit down.
  • Step 5: The count then continues until it reaches ‘12 x 4 = 48’ and then it reverses back to 0 (i.e. the next player says ‘11 x 4 = 44’. Each time a player has to say ‘7 x 4 = 28’ they sit down.
  • Step 6: Players who are sat down have to then predict (using their reasoning skills) on their mini whiteboard who will be the next player to be ‘out’.
  • Step 7: Two children ‘win’ the game, the last child standing, and the child who has got the most ‘predictions’ correct.
  • Step 8: You can change the ‘Terrible’ multiplication fact to focus on any multiplication fact from the 4 times table that children are struggling to recall.

Let’s duel with the four times table!

What you need: a pack of playing cards for each pair of pupils.

  • Step 1: Give each pair of children a pack of playing cards. Explain that in this game, an Ace is worth 1, a Jack is worth 11 and a Queen or King is worth 12. You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Children take it in turns to turn over one of the cards. The children then race against each other to multiply the number drawn by 4, announcing their answer by placing their hand on the card (in a similar style to when playing a snap based game).
  • Step 3: If the child who is the first to put their hand on the card says the correct answer, they get to keep the card, if, however, the say the incorrect answer (and their partner spots) their partner gets the card.
  • Step 4: Keep playing until there are no cards left in the draw pile. You may prefer to set a time limit (e.g. three minutes) per round.
  • Step 5: The player with the most cards at the end of the round wins.

5 times table games for year 3

Fishy fives.

Can you replace all numbers that are a multiple of five in this fishy challenge?

What you need: Nothing

  • Step 1: Ask the children/child to start counting in steps of 1, but each time they say a multiple of 5, they need to replace the number with ‘Fish’.
  • Step 2: Start counting from 1 as a class, for example you would say 1, 2, 3, 4, fish, 6, 7, 8, 9, fish.
  • Step 3: Continue the count in this way to at least 60 (12 x 5).
  • Step 4: Discuss what children notice about the numbers they are replacing with ‘fish’.
  • Step 5: Vary the game by passing the count along a line/around a circle, so that an individual child says each number, and then the next child in the line/circle says the next number etc.
  • Step 6: You can also make the game competitive by asking all children to stand up. Begin counting, but if a child makes a mistake (e.g. they say fish when they shouldn’t, or they say add the multiple of 5 after ‘fish’, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, fish, 5) they are ‘out’ and sit down. Which child can last the longest?

8 Times Table Games for Year 3

Eight hold up.

Can your pair hold up the answer to the question your teacher calls out first?

What you need : Medium digit cards 0-10 resource (create yourself or see download). You can also make your own digit cards at home.

  • Step 1: Give each pair two sets of medium 0-9 digit cards. You can use the cards provided in the resources if needed. You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Call out questions related to multiplication or division and the 8 times table.
  • Step 3: Children race to hold up the digit card(s) that form the answer.
  • Step 4: The first five pairs who answer correctly gain a point.
  • Step 5: Ask a child from a pair who has gained a point to justify and explain their answer.
  • Step 6: Keep playing until one pair has gained six points.

What’s the Link?

Are the 2, 4 and 8 times tables linked? Can you prove it?

What you need to play: Nothing.

  • Step 1: Say the following statement together: ‘Evie says I think my 4 times table is linked to my 8 times table’. Invite children to discuss this in small groups.
  • Step 2: Bring the class back together and share some of the thoughts from each group. Challenge the children to create a picture or other representation to show how the 2 times tables are linked.
  • Step 3: Then ask children if they think the 8 times table is linked to any other times tables. Give children time to investigate, and discuss together. Can children identify and explain the link between the 2 and 8 times tables?

Mixed Number Times Tables Games for Year 3

Find the cheese times tables board game.

Can you use your multiplication and division maths skills to help get your ‘mouse’ to the cheese in this times tables board game.

What you need A copy of ‘Find the Cheese’ game board per pair of pupils, a dice per pair of pupils, a counter per pupil.

  • Step 1: Arrange children into pairs, and give each pair a copy of the ‘find the cheese’ game board, a six-sided dice and a counter (which becomes their ’mouse’) each. You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Explain that children need to roll the dice and move their counter the number of spaces that they rolled.
  • Step 3: They then need to answer the question on the square, or follow out the instruction. If they land on a question square, and their partner spots that they have answered the question incorrectly, they must return to the square that they came from.
  • Step 4: Who can get their ‘mouse’ to the cheese first? To finish the game, children must land on the cheese.

Bingo, Bingo!

Write down six EVEN numbers between 2 and 50 in this game of Bingo.

  • Step 1: Invite children/child to each write down six different even numbers between 2 and 50.
  • Step 2: Tell children these are their ‘Double Bingo’ numbers, and they can cross them off when you call out a number that, when doubled, makes one of their numbers.
  • Step 3: Call out any number between 1 and 25. Children need to mentally double the number, and if the result is a number they have written down, they cross it off. For example, if you called out 15, any child who had 30 written down would cross out 30.
  • Step 4: Invite children to consider what numbers they are ‘waiting’ for you to call.
  • Step 5: Once a child has crossed off all of their numbers, they should stand up and shout ‘BINGO BINGO’ and then explain to the group why they have been able to cross off all their numbers, for example ‘I was able to cross off 20, as 10 was called out and double 10 is 20’.

In Year 4, times tables are a major focus, not just because of the multiplication tables check in the summer of Year 4. Children are expected to have mastered their 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 times tables, as well as those from the previous years. Links between the 11, 12 and 9 times tables and the 10 times table are encouraged.

6 Times Table Games for Year 4

Sixes splat.

Who will be the Sixes Splat Champion?

  • Step 1: Stand the children in a circle with the teacher in the middle.
  • Step 2: The teacher points to a child, while calling out a 6 times table question (e.g. 4 lots of 6 is…, 6 times 7 is… 36 divided by 6 is…)
  • Step 3: The person who is pointed at ducks down, and the two people either side of the person who is pointed at turn to face each other, and call out the answer to the question.
  • Step 4: The first player to correctly call the answer ‘splats’ the other player, and the player who has been ‘splat’ is temporarily out of the game.
  • Step 5: Continue playing, rotating, pointing and calling out questions at an increasing speed.
  • Step 6: When two children are left, you have a ‘Six Splat Off’. The children stand back to back. Call out random numbers, and for each number you call out each child takes a step forward. When you call out a multiple of 6, they need to turn around, point and shout ‘splat’. The player who ‘splats’ the other player the quickest is your overall champion.
  • Step 7: Restart the game, with all children being back ‘in’ and play again.

Sixes on Target!

Who can write down a division question involving the target number first?

  • Step 1: Arrange children into groups of 4 – 6, and give each a mini whiteboard. The children in each group should have roughly the same fluency in the rapid recall of the 6 times table and related division facts. You can play this with two children at home.
  • Step 2: Write a multiple of 6 on the board. This is your first ‘target number’.
  • Step 3: Children race to write down a division question that involves both this ‘target number’ and the number 6 on their whiteboard. For example, if you wrote 42, children could write 42 ÷ 6 = 7 or 42 ÷ 7 = 6.
  • Step 4: The first person in each group to correctly write a division sentence wins a point.
  • Step 5: Continue by writing a new target number, and repeating the stages above. The game ends either after a set period of time, or when one player gains a set number of points.

7 Times Table Games for Year 4

Savvy sevens choir.

Can you join a counting choir?

  • Step 1: Arrange children into at least three groups.
  • Step 2: Explain to each group of children that they are a ‘choir’ together and therefore need to respond/speak together as one group.
  • Step 3: The teacher is the ‘conductor’. When you point at each group, they say a 7 times table fact, with the first group starting with ‘1 x 7 = 7’, and then continuing in order to ‘12 x 7 = 84’. Groups should respond quickly when pointed at (conducted!)
  • Step 4: Initially, ‘point’ to each group in turn, but then begin to point to them in a random order, including pointing to the same group twice in a row. Gradually also increase the speed of your ‘conducting’.
  • Step 5: You should see the children begin to try and predict and have the answer ‘ready’ for the next times table they think they will be called upon to call. As children are encouraged to respond together, whispered discussions about the next response in between the times they are ‘pointed at’ are fine.

Seven times table museum

Let’s turn your class into a museum!

  • Step 1: Read the following sentence to your children/child, “Let’s turn your class/home into a museum! Can you create some different representations that show the 7 times table and its related division facts?”
  • Step 2: Invite the children to discuss in pairs what representation they could create. Share some of these ideas together, and ensure children understand the task. Explain any restrictions/limitations on what they can/can’t use in the classroom as needed.
  • Step 3: Give children time to create at least four different representations that involve the 7 times table and related division facts. Encourage children to use a range of representations, introducing pictorial representations.
  • Step 4: At the end of the session, invite children to ‘display’ their ‘artefacts’, and to explore each other’s ‘artefacts’. Can they identify what multiplication or division fact it represents?

9 Times Table Games for Year 4

Nine dice duel.

Can you get to 19 points before your partner?

What you need: six-sided dice.

  • Step 1: Put children in pairs who have a similar level of fluency with the recall of the nine times table. Give each child a six-sided dice. You can play this at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Children both roll their dice. They then race against each other to add the numbers shown on both dice together, and multiply the answer by 9. For example, if one child rolled a 3 and the other a 5, they would need to complete 8 x 9.
  • Step 3: The first child to successfully complete the multiplication and announce it in the style of ‘ _ x 9 = _ ’ wins a point.
  • Step 4: Which child can get to 19 points the quickest?
  • Step 5: You can also add an additional element of competition by getting each pair to combine their scores, and race against each other to see which pair can be the first to get to 39 points.

Shark nines

Can you escape the sharks in this active game?

What you need: a large space for the activity, 12 hula-hoops, Large Digit Cards 0-12 resource (create yourself or see download).

  • Step 1: Set out 12 hula-hoops around a large space. Each hoop needs a different number from 1-12 next to it, from the ‘0-12’ resource sheet (do not use 0).
  • Step 2: Explain to the children that they are swimmers and their aim is not to get eaten by sharks! Explain that the sharks eat anyone who is in the circle that has the answer to the question that you call out from the 9 times table.
  • Step 3: Ask the children to run around. After a while call out ‘SHARKS!’ and the children have five seconds to stand inside a hoop which isn’t already full of children.
  • Step 4: Once the time is up, call out a multiple of 9 (e.g. 72). The children work out which number is multiplied by 9 to make 72, and all the children then shout ‘8 x 9’ is 72, so the sharks eats number 8’.
  • Step 5: All the children who were in the hoop that corresponded to the number you multiplied by 9 to make the number called (so in our example, 8) are out, or, depending on how long you have to play, they lose one of their set number of lives. When children are out, they still need to join in with the whole class ‘shout’.
  • Step 6: Ask the children to move around the space again, and continue to play as above.

11 Times Table Games for Year 4

Double vision.

To answer any 11 times table question you simply write the number you are multiplying 11 by twice. Can you prove that this is correct?

  • Step 1: Read the following statement to your children: To answer any 11 times table question you simply write the number you are multiplying 11 by twice. So if you are working out 5 x 11 you just write 5 twice, making 55. You can also play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Ask the children to discuss this problem in pairs, and to decide if the statement is Always, Sometimes, or Never true.
  • Step 3: Share children’s initial thinking as a class.
  • Step 4: Establish together that the pattern in the statement is only sometimes true.
  • Step 5: Ask the children to spend time in their pairs working out why the pattern exists for 1 – 9 x 11, but doesn’t work for 10 – 12 x 11. Encourage them to represent the times tables in different ways, including with tens frames, number blocks and number lines, exploring the link between 10 x and 11 x.
  • Step 6: After a period of paired discussion and exploration, explore the patterns that children have noticed together as a class.

How quickly can you make arrays on your geoboard

What you need: Geoboards (peg boards), elastic bands.

  • Step 1: Give each child or pair (depending on resource available), a geoboard (sometimes called a peg board) and some elastic bands.
  • Step 2: Call out either a multiple of 11 (e.g. 77) OR a times table statement (without the answer e.g. 7 x 11 = ?) involving the 11 times table.
  • Step 3: Children then need to race to create an array on the geoboard using an elastic band that either represents the times table statement given, or the multiple of 11 (for example, if 77 was called, they would make a 7 x 11 or 11 x 7 array with the elastic band).
  • Step 4: Children then discuss with another child or pair, comparing their geoboards and checking their answers with each other, making sure they both agree. Repeat, giving another statement or multiple of 11.

12 Times Tables Games for Year 4

Reach the twelves.

How quickly can you run to the number that you multiply by 12 to make the number your teacher calls out?

What you need: Large Digit Cards 0-12 resource (create yourself or see download). You can also make your own digit cards at home.

  • Step 1: Before the lesson, print and place the large cards with 0-12 on from the ‘0-12’ resource sheet around the outside of the room.
  • Step 2: Begin by getting all children into the centre of the room.
  • Step 3: Call out a multiple of 12 (up to 144).
  • Step 4: Children have to run to the number that they multiply by 12 to make the number you called out, for example, if you called out 84, the children would run to the number 7.
  • Step 5: Once all children are at the correct number, they need to say the multiplication fact out loud together, for example, they would say ‘seven times twelve is 84’.
  • Step 6: Children then return to the centre of the room, and you call out another multiple of 12.
  • Step 7: Encourage children to explain their thinking and reasoning. Repeat as many times as you wish. To add in an element of competition, you may wish to award points for the first five children who reach the correct answer.

All Out Skirmish!

Let’s have a skirmish with our 1-12 x table multiplication facts!

What you need: playing cards

  • Step 1: Give each pair a pack of playing cards (jokers removed) and explain that during this game, an Ace is worth 1, a Jack is worth 11 and a Queen or King is worth 12. You can also play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Ask each pair to shuffle their cards, and to deal their cards equally between them.
  • Step 3: Children count to 3, and turn the card from the top of their pack.
  • Step 4: The children then race against each other to multiply the number on their own and their partners card together.
  • Step 5: They announce the answer by saying the answer followed by ‘skirmish’ and placing their hand over the cards, in a similar style to snap.
  • Step 6: If the child who is the first to put their hand on the card says the correct answer, they get to keep the card. If, however, they say the incorrect answer (and their partner spots it) their partner gets the card.

Mixed Numbers Times Tables Games for Year 4

Back to back.

Can you work out the number your partner has written down on their board.

  • Step 1: Arrange children into groups of three, so that two children – each holding a whiteboard and pen – are standing back to back, whilst the other child, who is the ‘spotter’ stands a few steps away from them.
  • Step 2: The two children standing back to back each write down a number between 1 – 12 on their whiteboard.
  • Step 3: The ‘spotter’ then multiplies the two numbers together, and announces the answer to the other players.
  • Step 4: The other two children race to work out the number that the other player must have written down (for example, if the child had written 4, and the spotter had called 20, then they could work out that the other child must have written down a 5, as 4 x 5 = 20).
  • Step 5: The first player in each group who calls out the other player’s number correctly wins a point.
  • Step 6: Repeat and rotate roles within each group.

In Year 5 children often work on their speed and accuracy with times tables speed tests to start developing the degree of fluency required to answer 30+ questions in the SATs at the end of Year 6. As fractions and decimals are introduced, times tables start to have real relevance to other topics.

Times Tables Games Year 5

Maths, paper, scissors.

Can you win this maths version of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’?

  • Step 1: Explain that this is a maths version of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’. (It may be useful to demonstrate the game initially.) You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: Players stand and face each other. Players make two fists, and say together ‘maths, paper, scissor’ whilst moving their fists up and down (in a similar vein to when playing rock, paper, scissors). On scissors each player puts out between 1 and 10 fingers (you may need to adapt the game to 2-10 if children are over using the 1 times table!)
  • Step 3: Players then race to multiply the number of fingers they put out by the number of fingers their partner put out (e.g. 6 x 8) and call out the answer. The player to call the correct answer first, wins a point.
  • Step 4: Play then continues in this ‘battle’ for an allotted time period, for example 2 minutes. This is a fast-paced and energetic game!
  • Step 5: Once children have played the game a couple of times, begin to encourage them to reason about the possible answers based on the number of fingers they decide to put out. If desired, children can switch partners, and play again.

What Do We Know Challenge!

How many facts can we find that are linked to just one multiplication statement?

What you need: Mini whiteboards, music (optional).

  • Step 1: Begin by writing a multiplication fact in the middle of the main classroom white board from the 1 – 12 x table. For example, 6 x 7 = 42.
  • Step 2: Give children/child three minutes to write as many related facts to this fact on their mini whiteboard as they can. For example, they could write 60 x 7 = 420, 7 x 6 = 42, 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 42, 42,000 ÷ 7,000 = 6, 3 x 7 = 21 etc…
  • Step 3: Once children have recorded the facts on their mini whiteboards, challenge them to a race to see how many facts they can record on the classroom whiteboard in three minutes.
  • Step 4: Start a timer. Playing music is optional, but helps add excitement!
  • Step 5: Give (at least) two children a pen for the main classroom whiteboard. Ask them to race to the front and to record one related fact around the fact that they have come up with.
  • Step 6: They then need to race to give the pen to another child, who needs to race to the front and record a different fact.
  • Step 7: Continue in the same way. Stress that all children need to be given a chance to add a fact if possible and that facts cannot be repeated.
  • Step 8: At the end, count how many unique facts they have recorded as a class. Record this number somewhere, and use it as a number to beat next time

Finally by Year 6, the times tables work teachers do tends to move children beyond the core curriculum, thinking about powers of 10 (eg 30 x 40) or decimals times tables (eg 0.4 x 9)

Times Tables Games Year 6

Squares and ladders.

Can you win this maths version of ‘Snakes and Ladders’?

  • Step 1: In this activity, children are going to use a hundred square to play a version of ‘Snakes and Ladders’. You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: First, recap with children what a square and prime number is, and how these can be identified. You may wish to identify the first few prime and square numbers with them. In this game, virtual ladders are on each square number, and snakes are on each prime number.
  • Step 3: In pairs, children place their counter to the bottom right of the hundred square (just to the side of the square with 100 in it). They take it in turns to roll a dice, and move that number of spaces, aiming to reach the ‘1’ on the top left of the square, but ‘snaking’ along, up and along each row, just like they would do in ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
  • Step 4: Once children have moved their counter, they look at the number they have landed on. If it is a square number, they get to ‘climb’ up two rows. If it is a prime number (and their partner notices) they have to ‘slither’ down one row. If they are on the bottom row and land on a prime, they move back one space. Play continues, until someone reaches 1!

What you need: A large hundred square per pair, a counter per player, six-sided dice per pair.

The Equaliser

Can you beat the equaliser?

What you need: The Equaliser’s numbers list .

  • Step 1: Show children the first list of numbers on the numbers list from the resource (0.24, 12, 0.048, 1,800). You can play this game at home with your child.
  • Step 2: With children working in pairs or small groups, challenge the children to work out what they need to multiply or divide each of the numbers by to make them have the same value (for the first set, children will use multiples of 2, 5 or 6 to make the values all equal).
  • Step 3: Discuss the children’s answers and solutions together, drawing out the strategies used.
  • Step 4: Then ask children to work in their pairs/groups to find solutions for the other sets of numbers.
  • Step 5: Once children have found solutions to all sets of numbers, ask them to pair up with another group, and compare their answers and strategies.
  • Step 6: Finally, challenge children to create their own version of the problem, and then ask them to swap problems with another pair/group and solve each other’s problems.
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12 of the best times tables resources and games for primary maths

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Get with the times (tables) and check out some of these ideas and activities for teaching multiplication in Key Stage 1 and 2…

Lloyd Burgess

Beyond buying apps on mum or dad’s iTunes account it can sometimes be hard for children to grasp the real-world potential of maths.

But we, of course, know all the famous names that have contributed to the world through numbers, equations and mathematical concepts.

There’s Newton, Pythagoras, Descartes, Archimedes, Noether, Einstein

So, if you’re looking for ways to give kids a helping hand and add some variety into how to teach times tables , we’ve picked out 10 resources and games to engage your class.

And if you need a printable times table grid , we’ve got you covered there too!

1 | Maths mastery worksheets for times tables 2-10

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Take a mastery approach to teaching the times tables with these nine times tables worksheets . Beginning with the two times table, the activities and questions carefully build children’s understanding of and confidence with the times tables.

Starting with pictoral examples, the problems move on to the abstract. There are layers of challenge to support children as their knowledge of the times tables grows. Pupils will problem solve using the times tables, learn to spot mathematical patters and work with basic algebra.

The process also supports children’s understanding of the relationship between the different times tables (eg 2 and 4 times tables and 3 and 6 times tables).

Browse more  algebra games .

2 | Times tables posters

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This resource contains full-page, A4 illustrated multiplication table posters for numbers 2 to 9 on separate sheets, with colourful accompanying graphics that includes tractors, bees, hot air balloons and apples.

3 | Two, five and ten times tables challenge pack

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This Times Tables Challenge Pack provides children with a term’s worth of practice on recalling multiplication facts for their 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

The pack contains 13 sheets of 60 problems. The children can complete as many of these as possible as a timed challenge. Also included in this pack is a scorecard so that children can see how recall is improving across the term.

Download it here.

4 | Times tables bumper packs

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These packs support the introduction or review of teaching the each times table to a class or group, and includes:

A PowerPoint containing .

  • Visual Introduction – a visual explanation of how the times table uses repeated counting
  • Rote – practice for times table recall
  • Practice questions – questions on the recall of multiplication and division facts related to the times table
  • Investigation – Questions related to the rules of the times table and maths in real life problems involving the times table
  • A cheat sheet – reminding pupils of a rule for the times table

An activity booklet containing

  • A times table practice tube
  • 3 differentiated activity sheets. These include practice, questioning and problem-solving questions. The sheet for more able pupils includes links to other areas of maths
  • 1 rapid-recall sheet of 60 times table questions
  • 1 rapid-recall sheet of 60 multiplication and division questions relating to the times table
  • An investigation related to the times table

Each pack costs £3.99, but the 7 times table pack is free if you want to see exactly what you get inside.

Check them out on Plazoom, here.

5 | Hit the Button

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This quick-fire game from Top Marks can be played using times tables up to 10 or 12, focusing on one particular times table or using a mix of sums from all of them. Race against the clock to answer as many questions correctly as possible and reinforce your multiplication learning.

You can choose to be given sums to select the correct answer, or be given an answer to which you need to find the right sum. Once the same question has come up a few times you’ll notice how quickly you’ve internalised the answer.

Browse more maths games KS2 ideas .

6 | Times tables tricks videos

Having trouble getting your learners to retain their multiplication tables? Try a different approach using these videos of handy times tables tricks.

Watch them all here.

7 | Multiplication and division activities for KS1&2

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NRICH is a great go-to source for mathematical activities, so here you’ll find loads for both primary key stages, such as Forgot the Numbers which explores the relationship between multiplication and division and Trebling which looks at place value.

Click here for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 .

8 | Visible times tables

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Help your pupils develop a solid grasp of the 1x, 2x, 5x and 10x times tables through visual indications and pattern recognition, with this lesson plan for KS2 maths and pupils with SEN, from Judy Hornigold.

9 | Multiplication games

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This PDF features four quick and easy games for children to work on their maths skills. You’ll only need simple things like number cards and dice, so they’re quick to set up, teach, play and pack away. What more could you want?

Download the PDF here .

10 | What’s Wrong?

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Well, my shoulder has been playing up, Janice in accounting took my lunch and…oh, you mean with this maths equation? Sure.

Instead of getting children to do different variations of the same sums, this KS2 flash game shows an incorrect answer and gets them to point out where the mistake lies.

Play it here .

11 | Mastering maths – multiplication and division at KS2

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Mastery hasn’t been this popular since He-Man and the Masters of the Universe first hit our screens in the early ’80s.

This resource comes as a PDF and as an adaptable word document and will push your KS2 students’ maths skills to the limits.

Download it here .

12 | Identify the Factors

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These handy printable worksheets from Snappy Maths provide exercises identifying factors for numbers up to 50 and numbers up to 100, and finding the highest factor for each of these two categories. There are 5 sheets for each one too, so (20 sheets in all).

You’ll also find online activities and links to related sites.

Check them out here .

Bonus advice articles

While not resources, these features contain loads of handy ideas and advice that can help you teach times tables:

Help children memorise times tables by encouraging them to make connections

Want to ensure multiplication tables don’t become a sticking point?

Beth Smith is here to show you how .

Ten ways to engage parents in teaching times tables

Despite them being a fundamental mathematical tool, many students leave primary unable to recite times tables to 12.

This piece from helps you encourage parents/carers to get involved at home.

Bring multiplication tables to life with real-world examples

This article from Karen Wilding can make sure that’s the case.

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Times Tables Teaching Resources

Times Tables Posters (SB6597)

A set of printable posters showing the times tables from 2 up to 12.

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Times Tables Posters - Reversed (SB7703)

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Times Tables Mats (SB6598)

Two printable mats (which could be printed double- sided) showing the times tables.

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Times Tables Mats - Reversed (SB7704)

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Times Tables Mat 2 (SB6599)

A simple printable times table mat featuring 2 & 4, 3 & 6 and 5 & 10 times tables.

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2, 5 and 10 Times Tables Mat (SB9060)

A simple printable times table mat featuring 2 5 and 10 times tables.

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3 and 4 Times Table Loop Cards (SB6604)

A set of 20 printable loop cards which can be used in small groups or with pairs.

Available in Swedish

6, 7, 8 and 9 Times Table Loop Cards (SB6605)

A set of loop cards with the 6, 7, 8 and 9 multiplication tables.  31 different cards included.  Great for whole- class or smaller- group phonics game where one child calls out the start card and the pupils then match/call out the corresponding cards until the game ‘loops’ back to the original child.

Know Your Times Tables Display Banners (SB8800)

Colour banners for your classroom times tables board.

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Times Tables Certificates (SB8987)

A set of colourful certificates to present to your pupils when they have learnt each of the times tables.

Available in French

2 Times Table Worksheets (SB9379)

A set of simple worksheets where children count the items and complete 2 times table number sentences.

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5 Times Table Worksheets (SB9382)

A set of simple worksheets where children count the items and complete 3 times table number sentences.

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3 Times Table Worksheets (SB9386)

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4 Times Table Worksheets (SB9396)

A set of simple worksheets where children count the corners and complete 4 times table number sentences.

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6 Times Table Worksheets (SB9402)

A set of simple worksheets where children count the insect legs and complete 6 times table number sentences.

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8 Times Table Worksheets (SB9410)

A set of simple worksheets where children count the items and complete 8 times table number sentences.

Resizable Multiplication Square Image (SB6601)

A downloadable multiplication square JPG image which can used in your own worksheets, posters or PowerPoints etc.

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Simple Multiplication Square Sheets (SB11741)

Simple printable multiplication squares in colour and black and white up to 10x and 12x tables.  Useful for all sorts of classroom activities.

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Witch and Wizard- Themed Multiplication Square Sheets (SB11740)

Print out and laminate these colourful multiplication square sheets to use in all sorts of classroom activities.  Includes 10x and 12x tables versions.

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Multiplication Square Sheets (SB6600)

Print out and laminate these colourful multiplication square sheets for use as table- top references.

Available in Norwegian

Giant Multiplication Square Pictures for Display (SB11742)

Large printable multiplication squares that print over 12 portrait A4 pages.  In both colour and black and white, 10x and 12x tables.  Assemble these on your classroom display for great visual impact!

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2, 5 and 10 Times Table Loop Cards (SB1241)

A set of 24 printable loop cards which can be used in small groups or with pairs.

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6 and 8 Times Table Loop Cards (SB6603)

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Colour- Coded Multiples with Balloons (SB1911)

The numbers from 1- 100 with colour- coded balloons to show multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 and odd/even numbers.  A useful visual aid for your classroom.

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Colour- Coded Multiples Number Line (SB1910)

The numbers from 1- 100 colour- coded to show multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 and odd/even numbers.  A useful visual aid for your classroom.

Counting in 4s

Counting in 5s

Counting in 6s

Counting in 7s

Counting in 2s

Counting in 3s

Counting in 10s

Counting in 11s

Counting in 12s

Counting in 100s

Counting in 8s

Counting in 9s

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Multiplication Bingo (4 Times Table) (SB12042)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 4 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (6 Times Table) (SB12041)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 6 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (7 Times Table) (SB12046)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 7 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (8 Times Table) (SB12047)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 8 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (9 Times Table) (SB12048)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 9 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (2 Times Table) (SB12056)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 2 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (3 Times Table) (SB12057)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 3 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (5 Times Table) (SB12058)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 5 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (10 Times Table) (SB12059)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 10 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (11 Times Table) (SB12060)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 11 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (12 Times Table) (SB12061)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences from the 12 times table.

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Multiplication Bingo (2, 5, 10 Times Tables) (SB2341)

A set of printable bingo boards and number cards with multiplication number sentences.

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Multiplication Bingo (2, 3, 4, 5 & 10 Times Tables) (SB6632)

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Would you like to practise your tables? Below you will find tables practise worksheets. Click on one of the worksheets to view and print the table practice worksheets, then of course you can choose another worksheet. You can choose between three different sorts of exercises per worksheet. In the first exercise you have to draw a line from the sum to the correct answer. In the second exercise you have to enter the missing number to complete the sum correctly. In the third exercise you have to answer the sums which are shown in random order. All in all, three fun ways of practicing the tables in your own time, giving you a good foundation for ultimately mastering all of the tables. Choose a table to view the worksheet.

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A great addition to practising your tables online is learning them with the assistance of worksheets. Here you can find the worksheets for the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 times tables. You can also use the worksheet generator to create your own worksheets which you can then print or forward. The tables worksheets are ideal for KS1 and KS2 practise.

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33 Fantastic Times Tables Games For Kids

October 12, 2023 //  by  Christina Swiontek

Multiplication can be a challenging step in your kiddos’ math journey. However, with these captivating math games, multiplication will become a walk in the park! This fantastic collection of awesome resources is guaranteed to have your learners begging for more times tables fun. Whether it’s card games, online activities, or even crafting – you’re sure to find the perfect fit to engage your budding mathematicians in a multi-faceted learning experience!

1. Rock, Paper, Times Tables

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Here’s an activity that adds an entertaining spin to the classic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors! Invite your learners to partner up and on the third lowering of their fists have them each reveal a number. Then, challenge them to multiply the numbers to see who can call out the correct answer first.

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2. Times Tables Matching Game & Book

This interactive game is perfect for hands-on learning! Simply invite your kiddos to read through this colorful times table book to brush up on their skills. Then, allow them to use the cards provided to match their answers with the corresponding sum.

Learn More: YouTube

3. Multiplication Bingo

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Multiplication Bingo is sure to be a hit in your next math class! Start by presenting your students with multiplication sums and then prompt them to calculate the sum, before placing a token on the correct answer displayed on their Bingo card.

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4. Multiplication Flash Cards

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These flash cards are a wonderful resource that your little brainiacs can use to polish their multiplication skills! Invite them to draw cards from the deck and then challenge them to solve each problem as quickly as possible.

5. Online Times Tables Practice

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Fine-tune your kids’ times tables with a plethora of online games! Simply set aside time during math class where they can take a break and play these educational games . It’s a fantastic way to solidify their knowledge and develop a strong mathematical foundation.

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6. Times Tales

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Treat your littles to a visually rich learning experience! Invite them to eagerly listen and observe as you have them watch these captivating math videos. It’s a great way to diversify their learning experience as you bring this digital teacher in for the day.

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7. Dice Games for Multiplication Mastery

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Here’s another way that your kiddos can use dice in their math lessons! Challenge them to a game of multiplication checkers as they use dice to formulate their sum. Then, prompt them to multiply the numbers together before placing a token on the correct answer.

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8. Printable Multiplication Board Games

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This adorable multiplication game is guaranteed to have your learners begging for one more go! To play this game, invite them to roll some dice and then have them move their game piece according to the number they roll. Once they’ve landed their piece, prompt them to correctly solve the problem – if they’re correct they’ll stay on that spot, but if they get the answer wrong they’ll have to move back to their previous position.

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9. Multiplication Spinner Game

Combine crafts and math for a memorable learning experience! Simply prompt your kids to color in a number on their number grid. Then, have them spin their spinners and multiply the two numbers once the spinner stops.

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10. Pirate Quest

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Take your little brainiacs on a swashbuckling adventure with this captivating activity! Prompt them to roll a pair of dice and then have them use their numbers as coordinates to pinpoint the correct square. Once they’ve found their square, challenge them to add up their coordinates and multiply the answer by the value in its allocated block.

11. Scoop it! Times Tables Game

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This treat of a game provides a sweet twist to math lessons. Task your learners with cutting out these colorful ice cream scoops and then prompt them to place their scoops in the correct outline to form their times table treat!

12. Times Tables Songs

Invite your little ones to a math-inspired, musical interlude! Encourage them to listen carefully as you play catchy times table songs for them to sing along to.

13. Make Math Stick

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Make your math lessons stick with this ingenious activity! Simply start by formulating a secret message by assigning numbers to letters. Then, let your kids get code cracking as they solve multiplication sums to unlock your secret message. 

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14. Multiplication Flowers

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Invite your littles to create magical multiplication flowers in this creative activity! Simply provide them with these easy-to-use worksheets and encourage them to follow the petals as they fill in the answers to each multiplication problem. 

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15. Multiplication Patterns and Need for Speed

Put a spin on mundane math lessons with a multiples-inspired game of Speed! Challenge your kiddos with playing each variation of this classic game by first having them pair up. If they choose the “5 Speed” they’ll have to place down cards that are multiples of 5 as fast as they can to see who can empty their deck first.

16. Times Tables Magic

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Teach your little ones multiplication through literature . Invite them to get comfortable as you read them times table tales – the perfect way to conclude your multiplication lessons!

17. Multiplication Splat!

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This fun-filled game is a great way to develop your learners’ fast-paced thinking. Simply start by laying cards down that contain multiplication problems. Then, call out an answer and prompt your kiddos to flip over the corresponding problem card as fast as they can before shouting “Splat!”. 

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18. Spiral Multiplication

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Gather your students as you take them on a whirlwind of a learning experience! Simply provide them with these topsy-turvy multiplication worksheets and task them with answering each question.

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19. Multiplication Race Track

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It’s a sprint to the finish in this Multiplication Race Track game. Challenge your students with solving multiplication problems, where each correct answer moves their cars closer to the checkered flag! 

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20. Gone Fishing Multiplication

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This engaging game is perfect for hands-on learning. Start by laying out stapled paper fish numbers in front of your kiddos. Then, invite them to solve various multiplication sums before prompting them to catch the correct fish using a magnetic fishing rod.

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21. Times Tables Puzzle Pieces

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Here’s a fun-filled puzzle game with a mathematical twist! Simply begin by cutting out these multiplication table templates according to their colors. You’ll then task your kids with putting the puzzle back together so that each row and column matches the product in the middle. 

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22. Multiplication Fact Flip

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Spark your littles’ competitive spirit with these times table flip cards. Encourage them to solve each sum displayed on the card before flipping over the end piece to see whether they’ve calculated the correct number. Have them play on their own or add an element of friendly fun by challenging them to see who can solve each card the fastest!

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23. Space Mission Multiplication

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This cool game is perfect for treating your learners to some tech time. Invite them to embark on a space mission as they solve multiplication sums to propel their spaceship forward. It’s an adventurous approach to mastering their multiplication skills!

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24. Muffin Tin Math

Invite your little ones to an interactive math experience ! Simply provide them with Muffin Tin Math supplies before placing multiplication sums in each muffin hole. Then, engage them in solving the sums by having them place the equivalent number of muffin toys in each hole.

25. Multiplication Fact Jenga

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Add a mathematical twist to the classic Game of Jenga ! Task your kiddos with setting up a Jenga tower with blocks that’ve been labeled with multiplication sums. Allow them to then take turns to pull out a block before prompting them to solve its sum. If they provide the correct answer they’ll keep their block, but if they provide an incorrect answer they’ll have to place their block on top of the tower. 

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26. Multiplication Obstacle Course

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Reinforce your littles’ multiplication knowledge in this dynamic game! Simply set up an obstacle course in your classroom where each obstacle has a corresponding multiplication problem. Kick off the fun by encouraging them to solve each problem before they proceed to the next obstacle.

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27. Sticky Note Multiplication Hunt

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Send your kids on a quest to uncover hidden mathematical knowledge! Begin by hiding sticky notes with multiplication problems all over your classroom. Then, challenge them to find each note before solving its displayed problem. 

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28. Roll and Multiply Challenge

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Multiply your learners’ knowledge with this interactive game! Task them with rolling two dice and then prompt them to multiply the two numbers to calculate the correct answer.

29. Multiplication Memory Grid

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Combine your students’ memory and math skills in one fun-filled game! Simply start by placing cards face down, where one side has multiplication problems and the other side has the answers. Encourage them to flip over two cards at a time to try and match each sum with its corresponding answer.

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30. Times Tables Shootout

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Here’s another engaging activity that your little ones can enjoy on their digital devices. In this game, they’ll have to solve multiplication sums and then shoot down the correct answer. It’s a great way to incorporate technology into their learning experience! 

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31. Multiplication Beat the Clock

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Put your kiddos’ knowledge to the test in this fast-paced game. Start by handing out multiplication worksheets before starting a timer and challenging them to solve each equation as fast as they can! 

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32. Times Tables Hopscotch

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Take learning outdoors in this vibrant activity! Simply draw a hopscotch grid on the ground, but instead of numbers, write down multiplication problems in each square. Then, prompt your kids to hop and skip through the maze as they call out each correct answer as they go.

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33. Multiplication Mystery Bags

Spice up your little learners’ math lessons with these sensory-rich mystery bags! To do this, you’ll fill bags with objects such as marbles or coins, and then label each bag with a multiplication problem. Invite your learners to then solve the problem and check their answer by counting the items in the bag.

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Here you will find a selection of Mental Multiplication sheets designed to help your child improve their mental recall of Multiplication Facts and learn their times tables.

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50 Fun Hands-On Activities and Games To Teach Multiplication

Making it fun makes it stick!

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Multiplication is a basic skill students need to master before they can move on to more advanced math. Memorizing multiplication tables is one option, but it’s important for kids to understand exactly what it means to multiply. This list of fun and engaging ways to teach multiplication has so many options. You’re sure to find a way to resonate with every one of your students!

1. Play a game of Scoot

A math lesson set up with task cards and worksheet laid out on a table

This is a fun way to break up the routine of worksheets. One at a time, you will post one of the multiplication task cards and your students will work to find the answer. After a set amount of time (up to you), say “Scoot.” Students will leave their answer sheet on their desk and move one seat to their left. Post another task card. Again, say “Scoot” and have students rotate.

2. Practice skip-counting with a song

For many of us, setting information to music helps us memorize it. This series of videos from HeavenSentHorse features common tunes that your students will quickly catch on to like Jingle Bells, This Old Man and more.

3. Solve multiplication puzzles

Teach multiplication with these puzzles printed on a colorful piece of paper

Puzzles are a great way to engage students and build their problem-solving skills. These puzzles help students put together the pieces to get the whole picture and really understand how to solve a multiplication problem.

4. Play Four in a Row

A worksheet with many circles with multiplication problems in them, a few covered with penguin stickers

This fun game challenges kids to practice their math facts. Partners will take turns choosing a circle and solving the math fact. If they get it right, they place a marker over it (here, a penguin stamp). The first player to connect four wins.

5. Solve Mystery Pictures

An array of colorful puzzles created by solving multiplication problems

Students will solve the one-digit multiplication problems, then use the key to color in the boxes and create the mystery picture.

6. Play multiplication tic-tac-toe

Teach multiplication using tic tac toe frames filled with multiplication problems

Playing with partners, each player chooses a multiplication problem to solve. If they get it right, they mark it with their dot marker. If not, it’s the next person’s turn. Play goes back and forth until someone gets three in a row.

7. Build multiplication skills with Minecraft

A colorful math game for students with the theme of Minecraft

Your kids will flip for this fun version of Minecraft multiplication. Download the game and instructions for free!

8. Deal a hand of Spiral

Playing cards laid out on a table in a spiral

Players take turns rolling the dice and moving around the game board with this fun multiplication card game.

9. Sweeten up multiplication practice

Teach multiplication using cupcake liners with multiplication problems written on them

Write multiplication problems on the bottom of small cupcake paper liners. On the inside, write the product. Two players take turns picking a liner, finding the answer, and flipping it over to check.

10. Take a whirl at fidget spinner math

A math worksheet using a fidget spinner as a tool

The object of the game is simple: Spin the spinner and complete as many problems as possible.

11. Make multiplication pool noodles

Pool noodles turned into math manipulatives for teaching multiplication

Pick up some pool noodles and use our easy tutorial to turn them into the ultimate multiplication manipulatives ! This is such a unique way for kids to practice their math facts.

12. Match wits at Array Capture

Teach multiplication using this printable worksheet of an Array Capture multiplication game

You can use dice-in-dice or just a regular pair of dice for this game. Players roll the dice and use the numbers to block off space on the grid, writing in the math sentence too. At the end of the game, the player with the most spaces colored in wins.

13. Punch holes to make arrays

Student using a hole punch to make multiplication arrays on rectangles of construction paper

Arrays introduce multiplication in a way that kids can easily understand. This activity is great for active learners who will love punching holes as they create multiplication arrays for basic facts.

14. Fold a multiplication cootie catcher

Colorful paper cootie catchers decorated with multiplication facts

We love finding new and clever ways to practice math facts! Get these free printables , then let kids color and fold them up. Now they’ve got self-checking practice at their fingertips.

15. Visit the Multiplication Shop

Table with array of small items marked with prices

How fun is this? Set up a “store” with small items for sale. Kids choose a number of items from each section to “buy” and write out the multiplication sentences as their receipt!

16. Ask a partner, “Do You Have …?”

Teach multiplication using an old Guess Who game repurposed to play Do You Have... with multiplication facts

Got an old “Guess Who?” game lying around? Turn it into a multiplication game instead!

17. Pull out the base-10 blocks

Base 10 blocks being used to teach array model multiplication

Base-10 blocks are one of our favorite manipulatives, and they’re a terrific tool to help you teach multiplication. Build arrays with them to let kids visualize the problems and their answers.

18. Color in Emoji Mystery pages

Printable Emoji Mystery page for learning multiplication

Here’s a twist on color-by-number. First, kids have to answer the multiplication problems in each square. Then they get to color! Get a free set of these pages at Artsy Fartsy Mama .

19. Multiply with dice-in-dice

Student using dice-in-dice to practice multiplication facts as a fun example of how to teach multiplication

Something about dice-in-dice just makes learning more fun! If you don’t have a set, you can use a pair of regular dice for this activity. Mix things up with polyhedral dice with higher numbers too.

20. Pick sticks to play Kaboom!

Popsicle sticks labeled with multiplication facts

So easy and so fun! Write multiplication facts at the end of a variety of wood craft sticks. On a few, write “Kaboom!” instead. To play, kids draw sticks from a cup and answer the problem. If they get it right, they can keep pulling sticks. But if they get a Kaboom! stick, they have to put their whole collection back!

21. Match Multiplication memory cards

Memory cards with multiplication facts and answers

Practice facts with a memory game. Make your own cards by writing facts and answers, then lay them all face down. Turn over a card and try to find its matching answer or problem. Your turn continues as long as you’re able to make matches.

22. Find it first

Random numbers written on a whiteboard, labeled

Write a series of products on the whiteboard, and mix in a few random numbers too. Send two students up to the board and call out a multiplication problem. The first one to find and point to the correct answer wins a point.

23. Draw Waldorf multiplication flowers

A drawing of a colorful flower with a number written in the middle and a multiplication equation written in each petal

This is a creative way to teach multiplication facts. Draw a flower with 12 petals and a circle in the center. In the circle, write the multiplicand; on the petals, the numbers 1 to 12. Now, draw larger petals outside, and fill in the product of each fact. Add some color to make fun classroom decorations!

24. Play multiplication war

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All you need for this is a deck of cards, plus paper and a pencil for each player. Split the deck between the players. Each player flips two cards, then writes out the multiplication sentence and the answer. The player with the higher product takes all the cards. Play until the deck is gone. The player with the most cards wins!

25. Compete at multiplication bingo

Printable multiplication bingo cards are a fun way to teach multiplication

Grab these free printable bingo cards at the link and provide one to each student along with some chips or beans to use as counters. Call out multiplication facts and have students cover the answers if they have them. When they get five in a row, it’s a bingo!

26. Put a twist on Rock, Paper, Scissors

Three hands against a white background, each hand showing a different choice in a game or rock, paper, scissors

Chances are your students already know how to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. This is similar, but instead, each player holds out a random number of fingers. The first one to correctly multiply them together and call out the answer wins a point. Play to 5, 10, or any number you choose.

27. Do some egg carton multiplication

A green egg carton with the numbers 1-12 written in the bottom of the cups used to teach multiplication

Number the cups of an egg carton from 1 to 12. Drop in two marbles or beans, then close the carton and shake it up. Open it up and have students write out the multiplication number sentence based on where the marbles landed. This is an easy tool parents can make for kids at home too.

28. Try interactive flash cards

Multiplication flash cards to print out for student math practice

These aren’t your ordinary flash cards! These free printables are a cool way to teach multiplication since the answer side includes a dot array to help kids visualize the solution. You can use sticky-note flags to cover the answers while kids use the arrays for help too.

29. Teach multiplication facts with a paper plate wheel

A multiplication game made with two paper plates

All it takes is paper plates, glue, and a marker to help your students learn their multiplication tables. Let kids have fun decorating their plates, and this doubles as a math craft!

30. Practice with fact family triangles

Triangular fact family cards made from card stock used to teach multiplication

Tie together multiplication and division facts with triangle flash cards. Learn how to use them and buy a printable set at Primary Flourish . You can also have kids make their own.

31. Make LEGO arrays

Multi-colored LEGO bricks laid out on a table

LEGO bricks are one of our favorite ways to teach math! You can use multiple bricks to make arrays or just look at the bumps on the top of a single brick as an array in itself.

32. Try the finger trick

An illustration of two hands spread out with each finger labeled with a number from 1-10

This cute craft also teaches kids a clever multiplication trick that can help them if they’re stuck with multiplication “times nine.” Learn the easy trick at 5-Minute Crafts .

33. Use the Force to teach multiplication

A student Star Wars-themed math worksheet and color dot markers

Sometimes learning multiplication facts just takes practice. Worksheets may not be very exciting, but adding a theme that kids are interested in may motivate your students. This free download from Royal Baloo features homework sheets and practice papers with graphs, mazes, puzzles, and more, all with a Star Wars theme.

34. Watch a multiplication video

Still shot from a video teaching kids multiplication

From Schoolhouse Rock to Animaniacs and beyond, there are lots of fun videos to help you teach multiplication. Find our big list here.

35. Play multiplication checkers

Blue and white checkerboard with multiplication problems written in squares as an example of how to teach multiplication

Turn a thrift store checkerboard into a multiplication game with some stickers and a marker. The play is similar to traditional checkers, but you have to solve the problem before you can leave your checker on a new space.

36. Toss a multiplication soccer ball

A colorful soccer ball with multiplication equations written in the white squares

What better way to appeal to students than to combine math with one of their favorite activities? These fun balls can be used in so many ways to support learning.

37. Flip bottle caps

Bottle caps with multiplication problems written on top to teach multiplication

Here’s a cool alternative to flash cards. You can use metal bottle caps or plastic bottle lids, along with round stickers that fit the caps. It’s a great way to go green while you teach multiplication!

38. Batter up to learn multiplication

A colorful printout of a multiplication baseball game

Sports-loving kids will love this one! Get the free printables and use them along with a 10-sided die to get some multiplication facts practice.

39. Line up dominoes

Dominoes laid out on a worksheet to teach multiplication

Single dominoes turned sideways become multiplication number sentences! Grab a handful and have kids write out the sentences and their answers.

40. Roll to win

Multiplication Dice Game with dice and free printable

This works a bit like Yahtzee. Roll a die, then choose a number from 1 to 6 to multiply it by. Each number can only be used once, so choose carefully to rack up the most points. If you have polyhedral dice, you can play with higher numbers too.

41. Sculpt play dough arrays

Colorful balls of play dough laid out in arrays above multiplication problems

What kid doesn’t love the chance to play with play dough? Use this activity for math centers, and kids will really enjoy practicing their multiplication facts.

42. Connect the dots with Multiplication Squares

A colorful printout of a multiplication squares game  used to teach multiplication

This is a math spin on the old Dots and Boxes game. Kids roll two dice and multiply the numbers together. Then they find the answer on the board and connect two dots next to it. The goal is to complete a box, coloring it in with your own color marker. When the board is full, count the squares to see who wins.

43. Cut out and assemble array cities

A colorful poster of a city made from individual buildings made from arrays

Here’s another colorful math craft: multiplication array cities. Most high-rises have their windows arranged to make perfect arrays. Have kids make their own city skylines with buildings showing various multiplication arrays.

44. Stack math power towers

Three Pringles cans covered with a label that says Math Power Towers behind a stack of plastic cups with multiplication problems on them

There’s a universal appeal about making stacks of cups, so don’t be surprised if kids clamor to play this game over and over again. Pull a cup, answer correctly, and stack. See who can get a stack of 10 first, or who can build the highest tower in 2 minutes, and so on.

45. Change your students’ names (temporarily)

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Grab some name tags and write multiplication equations on each. Give a tag to each of your students. For the remainder of the day, everyone will refer to each other by the answer to the equation on their tag (e.g., the student with the name tag that says 7 x 6 would be referred to as “42”).

46. Take multiplication to the gridiron

A pair of leg goal posts, a lego football and a pair of dice on top of a worksheet

All you need is poster board, 12-sided dice, and a couple of game pieces to teach multiplication using football. Students move their game piece up the field by rolling the dice and multiplying the two numbers that face up. They get four chances to score a touchdown.

47. Roll and Bump!

A colorful math worksheet with bright circles with numbers inside

Print the free game boards , each with a multiplier in the heading. Roll two dice, add them together, then multiply by the multiplier. Then place your game piece over that answer. If another player also comes up with the same product, they can “bump” your game piece off and replace it with their own. The player with the most markers on the board at the end of the game wins.

48. Weave multiplication patterns

Embroidery hoops with yarn woven into patterns inside of them

Skip-counting provides an introduction to multiplication. We love this hands-on activity where kids skip-count and weave yarn into pretty patterns.

49. Challenge kids with Multiplication Jenga

A jumble of Jenga wooden blocks with multiplication facts written on them used to teach multiplication

Grab an old Jenga game at the thrift store (or pick up the generic version at the dollar store). Write multiplication problems on each block, then stack ’em up. Player one pulls a block and tries to answer the problem. If they get it right, they keep the block. If they miss, their partner gets a chance. But if no one can answer it, the block gets stacked up on top. Keep playing until the tower collapses!

50. Twist and learn

Kids playing Twister on a Twister mat with numbers written on each dot

Your students will love this twisted version of an old favorite! The original Math Twister was designed for addition, but it works for multiplication too. Simply write products on sticky notes and add them to circles. Then call out math problems like “Left foot, 4 x 5!” The player must put their left foot on the number 20—if they can!

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Six resources for teaching and learning times tables

How do your pupils learn times tables? From digestible research to interesting resources, these ideas will help you reflect

Six resources for teaching and learning times tables

  • Published: 10/03/2020

Class multiplication chart from the NCETM Mastery Professional Development Materials Multiplication and Division 2.7 Teacher guide .

You probably don’t need reminding that the times tables test is coming to Year 4 in June 2020. Officially, it’s called the Multiplication tables check (MTC) and it can be done any time within a three-week window from 8 June. Inevitably, it’s likely to make teachers and schools reflect on how they teach times tables.

The National Curriculum states that fluency and conceptual understanding should be developed in tandem because each supports the development of the other. So, how can we teach times tables for secure conceptual development as well as fluency?

Teachers on a recent Twitter chat ( #mathscpdchat ) seemed to agree that using a variety of methods, games and representations was key. Below, we offer a summary of the chat, have picked out some of the suggestions we liked best and added a couple of links to relevant research.

#mathscpdchat logo

Our weekly CPD discussion on Twitter is open to all teachers of maths * . The summary of a recent discussion on Strategies to help pupils learn (and securely retain) times tables facts allows you to catch up on the conversations and follow up any threads that interest you. It includes a list of resources and ideas recommended by participants. Some of these are commercial sites but many of them have resources available for free. While you might have expected engagement from primary teachers, there were teachers from all phases, including post-16.

Nicol Winfield

In a short video clip tweeted by Primary Mastery Specialist, Nicol Winfield, her pupil uses knowledge of how tables facts relate to one another (e.g. doubling 2×7 to give 4×7) to help remember the 7 times table. Nicole’s technique is based on Jill Mansergh’s video Tables with a Number Stick , where she shows how the 17 times table can be learned in less than ten minutes.

Children singing

For anyone wanting a singing approach to ‘chanting’, teacher Martyn Yeo has helpfully made a YouTube playlist putting sing-along videos in one place.

Spine 2: Multiplication and Division of our Primary Mastery Materials provides comprehensive guidance and support for conceptual understanding of the times tables and relationships between them. Multiplication and Division is presented in 30 segments, six of which focus specifically on times tables (see 2.3 , 2.4 , 2.7 , 2.8 , 2.9 and 2.11 in Years 2, 3 and 4). Each includes a detailed teacher professional development guide with images helpful to conceptual understanding. The images are also provided on PowerPoint slides that can be used in the classroom.

Two hands

A whole school intervention for teaching, learning and understanding times tables by Professor Jenny Field (published in the Spring 2020 edition of Primary Mathematics ), describes the research she has done, in collaboration with London South East Maths Hub , in supporting schools to structure their own research-based curriculum for times tables. It includes ‘Eight Steps’ to help build a whole-school approach including suggestions for how much, how often, the order in which the tables should be taught, consistency of presentation and language, exploring patterns and links to the real world.

Expresso chart

Espresso is ‘a small but intense draught of filtered research on mathematics education, expressly designed with teachers in mind’ from Cambridge Maths. In 2016, Espresso covered Learning and Assessing Times Tables with some easily-digestible findings.

* Our Twitter-based chats, using the hashtag #mathscpdchat , with a different host each week, happen every Tuesday at 7pm and cover maths teaching across all age ranges. The chats are loosely organised by the NCETM and summarised on a dedicated page on our website, so you don’t need to be a social media user to benefit.

Image credits Numberblocks © Alphablocks Ltd, all rights reserved Times tables graph from Espresso used with permission

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