This blog aims to support the ‘how’ to learn a multiplication table (from the beginning) and then also how to rehearse and maintain it.įirst, to be clear about the expectations within the National Curriculum from Year 2 onwards, there is specific reference to the recall of multiplication and division facts. What we need to do is be more specific about ‘how’ to support this at home. We think of it, like regular reading, as an area where parents’ support is really beneficial. Many schools ask parents to help at home with the learning of multiplication tables. Not having facts at fingertips or fast strategies to get them will slow down the bigger calculations they are trying to solve and place additional pressure on working memory when problem solving (as they are adding in additional steps to work out multiplication facts rather than recalling them). Where a child has not yet remembered the necessary facts or understood their connections to each other enough, they often end up using what becomes an inefficient ‘counting up from 0’ strategy to figure them out. So much of the mathematics curriculum in Upper Key Stage 2 is built upon a good understanding of multiplication and division and recall of the multiplication tables.

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It is fair to say that children who know their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12 (with a good amount of understanding as well as recall) cope better with the demands of the maths curriculum in many areas, such as formal written division, equivalent fractions, percentages and ratio and proportion. To get in touch with the HFL Education Primary Maths Team about our blogs, resources and services, email us at of the key learning of multiplication tables happens across Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4. This blog has been written for teachers but can be shared by schools with their parents as the ideas within it are useful for the learning of multiplication tables at home.

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