Multiplication
The 9 times table
Every fact from 9 × 1 to 9 × 12, what to notice about them, and a game for drilling the ones that don't stick.
Practise the 9s →The full table
| 9 × 1 | 9 |
|---|---|
| 9 × 2 | 18 |
| 9 × 3 | 27 |
| 9 × 4 | 36 |
| 9 × 5 | 45 |
| 9 × 6 | 54 |
| 9 × 7 | 63 |
| 9 × 8 | 72 |
| 9 × 9 | 81 |
| 9 × 10 | 90 |
| 9 × 11 | 99 |
| 9 × 12 | 108 |
How to remember it
- The digits of every answer add to 9: 9 × 6 = 54, and 5 + 4 = 9.
- Ten times the number, minus the number: 9 × 7 is 70 − 7.
- The finger trick: hold up ten fingers, fold down the nth, and read the two groups.
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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