Multiplication
The 8 times table
Every fact from 8 × 1 to 8 × 12, what to notice about them, and a game for drilling the ones that don't stick.
Practise the 8s →The full table
| 8 × 1 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 8 × 2 | 16 |
| 8 × 3 | 24 |
| 8 × 4 | 32 |
| 8 × 5 | 40 |
| 8 × 6 | 48 |
| 8 × 7 | 56 |
| 8 × 8 | 64 |
| 8 × 9 | 72 |
| 8 × 10 | 80 |
| 8 × 11 | 88 |
| 8 × 12 | 96 |
How to remember it
- Double three times. 8 × 6 is 6 → 12 → 24 → 48.
Practising it properly
Recall and calculation are different skills. A child who works out 7 × 8 by counting up from 7 × 4 knows the maths, but they'll still stall on it in a longer problem. The goal is answering without working it out — which is why the game times every card and treats a slow correct answer as something still worth practising.
Short and frequent beats long and rare. Five minutes a day moves a fact from "worked out" to "known" faster than half an hour on a Sunday.
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