Times tables quiz: practise 2 to 12 times tables online

• Start untimed with two or three tables your child is learning, so they can get them right.
• Practise a little every day: five minutes daily beats one long session a week, because spaced practice improves long-term memory (Cepeda et al., 2006).
• Always practise the mistakes: the "Practise my mistakes" round repeats each missed fact twice.
• Add the timer last, once accuracy is good, to build speed.

Pupils in England take a statutory multiplication tables check in year 4: 25 on-screen questions from the 2 to 12 times tables, with 6 seconds to answer each (Department for Education). There's no pass mark; schools get each pupil's score out of 25. Our timed mode uses the same 6-second limit as practice.

Most children find a few facts stubborn, often $6 \times 8$, $7 \times 8$ and $6 \times 7$. Patterns help: $7 \times 8 = 56$ (5, 6, 7, 8), the digits of the 9 times table add up to 9, and the 4 times table is double the 2 times table. Our guide on how to learn times tables has more strategies for parents.

Most children find this order easiest: 2, 5 and 10 first (clear patterns), then 3, 4 and 8 (4 is double 2, 8 is double 4), then 6 and 9, and finally 7, 11 and 12. By the time you reach the 7 times table, most of its facts are already known from other tables. Remember that $3 \times 7$ is the same as $7 \times 3$, which halves what there is to learn.

1. One untimed round on the tables being learned.
2. A "Practise my mistakes" round.
3. On Fridays, a timed round to see the progress.

Keep it positive: celebrate improvement, and stop before it becomes frustrating.