Times tables

Skip counting for parents: the counting habit that grows into multiplication

What skip counting is, why schools start with 2s, 5s and 10s, how socks, nickels and dimes make it concrete at home, and when to stop counting and start learning the times tables as facts.

Learn the times tables fast: the ten facts that take real work

Most of that frightening grid runs on rules and patterns. This guide names the ten multiplication facts your child has to memorize and sets out a four-week routine that fits into ten minutes a day.