The GridLevel 9 of 12
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.
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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.
Practicing it properly
Recall and calculation are different skills. A child who works out 7 × 8 by counting up from 7 × 4 knows the math, 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 practicing.
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, and it doesn’t need supervising.
This is drill, not a math lesson. It won’t explain what multiplication is and it isn’t tied to any curriculum — you teach the 9s however you teach them, and this is the ten minutes afterwards that make them stick.
The other levels
Twelve tables, no order. Take the one that’s giving trouble.