7 times table
One table, one page: 7 × 1 to 7 × 10 big enough for the fridge, the multiples of 7 lit up on a hundred chart, and a practice page with the answers taken away.
How to use it
Page one goes on the fridge, page two goes into a punched pocket with a dry-wipe pen. Read the poster together a few times first: the coloured band and the lit squares on the chart give the same ten answers twice, so a child sees the 7s as a path through the hundred as well as a list. Then hand over page two — the same ten facts in a scrambled order, with the multiples missing from the chart and from the counting row.
The 7s have the fewest patterns and the reputation to match. But by the time a child gets here, most of the row is already known the other way round — 7 × 2 is the 2s, 7 × 5 the 5s. What is genuinely new is 7 × 7 = 49 and 7 × 8 = 56, and 56 is easy to hold: 5, 6, 7, 8.
Every page in this pack
Poster
Practice
Printing notes
- Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — scaling shrinks the digits and the whole point is that your child writes them at a steady size.
- Black-and-white and draft mode are fine. Nothing on these sheets depends on colour.
- Slide a sheet into a punched pocket and a dry-wipe pen turns one page into a hundred goes.
Where this sheet fits
The thinking behind it
How to Memorize Times Tables (The Calm Way That Sticks) — Read the full guide