9 times table
One table, one page: 9 × 1 to 9 × 10 big enough for the fridge, the multiples of 9 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 9s 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.
Hold up ten fingers and fold down the one you are multiplying by: for 9 × 4, fold the fourth finger, and the fingers either side of it read 3 and 6 — 36. Every answer's digits also add up to 9, and the tens digit is always one less than the number you multiplied by.
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