About Times Tables
Times Tables is a free daily multiplication game for children aged 5 to 11. It shows one fact at a time, and it remembers how long your child took to answer each one. The facts they answer slowly, or get wrong, come back more often. The ones they have made automatic come back just often enough to stay that way.
The grid
Open the school-year badge at the top of the page and choose My times tables. Every fact from 2 × 1 to 12 × 12 is a square. Green squares are the facts your child answers quickly and correctly, amber ones are slower, and red ones are the facts that still need work. Squares their school year has not reached yet are left pale. It fills in as they play, and it is the quickest way to see what to practise.
Which tables does my child get?
The tables follow your child’s school year, which you set once for every game in the suite. You never pick a difficulty here.
- Reception and Year 1 — counting in twos and tens.
- Year 2 — the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
- Year 3 — the 3, 4 and 8 tables join them.
- Year 4 and up — everything to 12 × 12, and the child types the answer instead of choosing it.
Those steps are taken from the earliest point any of the nineteen curriculum boards Tadpole supports asks for each table, so a child is never behind their own school. What each year covers is written out in the curriculum guide.
The Year 4 multiplication tables check
In England every Year 4 child sits a statutory multiplication tables check in the first two weeks of June: 25 questions drawn from the tables up to 12 × 12, with six seconds to answer each one. This game is useful practice for it, because it measures the same thing the check does, which is not whether your child can work an answer out but whether they already know it.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a timer? No. Nothing counts down and nothing is failed. The answer time is measured quietly so the game knows what to bring back, and your child never sees a clock.
Does a wrong answer count against them? It brings the fact back sooner, and that is all. Stars only go up.
Where is the data kept? On the device, in the browser. It is not sent anywhere.
Times Tables sits alongside Sumdle, where a child makes a target number from a grid of digits, and Number Words, where they spell the number out. It is part of the Tadpole Games family.