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Make 3rd Grade Multiplication Facts Stick With Fast-Paced Practice

Help 3rd graders build multiplication speed and confidence through quick multiplayer times tables battles with friends or family.

MathIt makes times tables practice for 3rd graders feel exciting instead of repetitive. With short rounds, fast-answer scoring, and kid-friendly multiplayer play, children ages 8-9 get the repeated multiplication fact practice they need while staying focused and motivated. It’s a fun way to strengthen early times tables recall through real-time competition.

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Features

Everything you need to make math practice stick

Custom Games (PRO)

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Fair Scoring System

First correct answer earns 2 points, second earns 1 point. Speed and accuracy both matter.

Brain Training Benefits

Improve mental math speed, working memory, and cognitive processing through competitive practice.

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Reference table

·12345678910
112345678910
22468101214161820
336912151821242730
4481216202428323640
55101520253035404550
66121824303642485460
77142128354249566370
88162432404856647280
99182736455463728190
10102030405060708090100

Sample problems

10 × 5 = ? Show answer
50
5 × 10 = ? Show answer
50
5 × 6 = ? Show answer
30
2 × 7 = ? Show answer
14
8 × 6 = ? Show answer
48
10 × 7 = ? Show answer
70

Skills you’ll practice

Multiplication Division Mental Math

Multiplication in 3rd grade

This is the band where the tables have to become automatic, and the facts children stumble on are remarkably consistent: 6 × 7, 7 × 8, 8 × 9 and anything times 12. Everything else is usually already fluent. If practice keeps breaking on the same three or four facts, those are the whole homework list — a fluent answer takes under three seconds and involves no counting up.

Third grade belongs to the times tables. Multiplication and division are introduced together, area and arrays give them a picture, and rounding to the nearest ten and hundred begins. It is the highest-leverage year in elementary arithmetic: the tables learned here carry fractions, long multiplication and mental math for the rest of school, and gaps left now surface for years.

3rd graders are expected to recall the tables to 10 × 10 in any order, not only by reciting them in sequence; after that comes the full grid to 10 × 10, mixed rather than recited in order.

Watch for the small cluster of 6 × 7, 7 × 8 and 8 × 9, which almost always accounts for the gap.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which multiplication facts are hardest to learn?
6 × 7, 7 × 8, 8 × 9 and the 12s, consistently. They have the fewest patterns to lean on. If practice keeps failing on the same handful of facts, drill those rather than reciting whole tables.
What multiplication should a 3rd grader know?
Enough to recall the tables to 10 × 10 in any order, not only by reciting them in sequence.
Why does my 3rd grader keep getting multiplication wrong?
Most often: the small cluster of 6 × 7, 7 × 8 and 8 × 9, which almost always accounts for the gap.

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