Times Tables Practice
Calculation · Year 3–Year 6
Worksheets for this ↓One fact at a time, answer covered. Any tables, with a countdown if you want one.
Use this on paper
The 2, 4 and 8 times tables, on paper, for Year 3.
The 2, 4 and 8 Times Tables · £1.50 a sheet, or any 5 for £5 · No subscription.
About the times tables
One times table fact on the board, in big numbers, with the answer under a cover. The class answers, you tap the cover, and the answer comes up with the rest of the fact family underneath: 7 × 8 = 56 brings 8 × 7, 56 ÷ 7 and 56 ÷ 8 with it.
Choose any of the tables from 2 to 12. Every fact goes into a deck, shuffled, and the deck is worked through before anything comes round again, so a class practising the sevens gets every seven once rather than seven eights three times and six sevens never. A fact that is in two of the tables you chose, like 7 × 8 in the sevens and the eights, is in the deck once.
Facts come both ways round, because the multiplication tables check asks them both ways and a class that knows 7 × 8 does not always recognise 8 × 7. Turn on division and some of them come as 56 ÷ 8 instead.
The countdown is six seconds, the same as the check, or twelve to start with. When it runs out the bar is empty and the answer stays covered until you uncover it. Nothing is scored and nothing is counted: this is practice, not a test.
How to use it on your whiteboard
- 1Choose the tables from the tables button. 2 to 12 is every table; there are quick buttons for 2, 4 and 8 and for 3, 6 and 9.
- 2Read the fact out, or let the class read it.
- 3Tap the blue box, or press Show, when they have answered.
- 4Press Next for the next fact.
- 5Turn on a countdown for pace practice, and turn on division to mix in the inverse facts.
Questions
- Is this the same as the multiplication tables check?
- It practises the same thing: recall of the facts up to 12 × 12, asked either way round, with six seconds each if you turn the countdown on. It is not a copy of the check, and it does not mark or score anything.
- Why do facts not repeat?
- Because every fact in the tables you chose goes into a shuffled deck, and the deck runs out before it starts again. A random draw would give some facts three times in a lesson and others not at all.
- Can a shared link give another class the same facts in the same order?
- Yes. The share button carries the shuffle and how far through it you are, so whoever opens the link gets the same fact next.
- Do I need an account?
- No. Trove Tools is free with no login, no subscription and no limits.