Learning how to multiply numbers is an important skill. Learn these, practice them and always keep to the same methods!
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For many children learning how to multiply numbers can be difficult. Although it’s an essential part of the curriculum, and helpful in a number of ways:
- estimation skills – knowing the approximate answer is will help to focus on the correct calculation
- understanding the problem – being comfortable with multiplication can help with problems that involve factors, indices, fractions, decimals .. and many more!
From being comfortable with numbers to estimation skills – times tables, or an understanding of multiplication – should never be very far from a students’ maths work.
In past times, and still in many parts of the world, most children learn by rote. This involved starting each lesson by reciting all the tables from x1 to x12. Many parents were taught this way and are still able to remember them easily.. click here to continue reading ‘Fun ways to learn times tables.”
Times tables using your hands.
Short multiplication two numbers by one number formal method
Short multiplication using partitioning
Long multiplication using formal method
Long multiplication using grid or partition method
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Short multiplication two numbers by one number formal method
Short multiplication using partitioning
Long multiplication using formal method
Long multiplication using grid or partition method
its soooooooooooooooo easy
When I do 9×10 one finger is alone….when it is alone…don’t
multiplicate?
I wish I had known this before I learned my times tables! So helpful!
8 x 7 doesn’t work. Help. ?
Coool
Finger times table
Hi
This video is very helpful for struggled students.
thanks for sharing
I’ve been told that they teach this in some schools in Thailand as a formal
method of knowing these x tables. Excellent method for those of us with a
bad memory
Yikes!!! Wished my little me back in 4th grade knew this method
Senior year of college we just learned this lol I’m an education major. I
wish I would have known this much sooner! Great tips!
Senior year of college we just learned this lol I’m an education major. I
wish I would have known this much sooner! Great tips!
how does the pinky finger become a 1 instead of a 3 for the 9 x 9 but
every other way it stays a 3
Too much extra adding and multiplying… I’d rather just memorize. 😛
6 x 6 doesn’t seem to work… am I having a brain freeze? The other
combinations work for me. Please help – Thanks!
My granddaughter is having trouble with her multiplication hope this will
help her.
cool))) thank you for sharing)
is there a way to solve 8 x 3 = ? with hand trick?
thanx
This will help my baby cousin.
THANK YOU!!!!!
love it. thank you
Really useful!
thanks!
Thank you! I knew how to do the 9 trick but this is awesome! I’m going to
teach it to my kiddos!
Very creative! This is really good!
thank you i’ve looked through so many of these and you were the clearest
and best! thank you
My daughter is now learning her times tables and this will be very
helpful!! Thank you!!
Awesome! thank you !
thank you so much it helped me a lot
Can u do 9×4?
Wow this is a good way! So easy
should make tomorrows test easier!
this is giving me a headache
thanks 🙂
Excellent, so easy to learn and will never need a calculator at work again.
Omgg tysm ik how to so it really well ty!!
i know my 6s so well ask me one i will anser
thanks helped me
How do you know when to add the numbers behind the tipped fingers and when
to multiply them?
Impressive,but how will you do 6×12, since you don’t have 12 in the
fingers. thanks
This is fantastic!
Wow
wish i knew this when i was a kid
I already know that my teacher show me
wow! 🙂
i just wanna give u a BIG hug !!! Thank u! this is amazing! 🙂
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i already know my timestables but wow this is amazing cool!!!
Confusing!!
isn’t it easier to memorize them
thanks so much my maths teacher showed me on the blog at berwick fields
website
I can’t wait to show my 3rd graders this trick!! 🙂 I will also share with my math colleagues!! Thanks
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Huge thank you. My (home schooled) kids will love this.
That’s great and thanks for the comment – all best S
Finding ppl like you on the internet helps so very much , Im home schooling my 8 yrs old grand daughter and its not easy,, im not really a teacher… but she has got the basics down on this and will help so very much … thank you 🙂
I think your video is very cool!
That’s great and good luck with the test! All best S
Thanks Simon As an 19 year old I never really got anything out of maths leaving it and Always was scared of using it, but now your videos are helping me understand and helping me get ready for the Royal Navy Math test
Thx!
thank you i am now even faster than ever
That’s great – well done 🙂
Thank you now I’m a MATH wizard in my class!!
You can do nines easier on your hands hold both hands in front say its 9×8 well you start at your pinky on your left hand and count each finger over to the eight one which is your middle finger on your right hand. Gold that finger over now how ever many fingers that are folded before is the first number whatever bent behind is the second number. So its 9×8=72
Are you a wizard.
Awesome
thanks a lot ;D
Yes, I might finally get faster at this without calculator! 🙂
For little kids. If you are older, you probably have memorized this anyways.
great tick my 8 year old loves it!!! thanks so much for sharing he is so happy to show all his friends
Great trick
this is kinda difficult
This is fantastic! What a great trick/tip! Thank you!!!
ALIEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Good
Thanks
mindblown
ty so much i finally know my multiplication 🙂 omg so happy!
Without that my life in year7 would be a nightmare:) thx again
This guy is a beast cant wait till i show this to my math teacher so helpfull thx:)
I had to watch 2 different vids about it and now i understand 🙂
It helped
it
i dont get！
funny way of learning .!! I willbe teaching to the kids itis a passing time usefully.
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Thanks so much you blew my mind 🙂
Can you please help me because i am getting so confused by your video! 🙁
and i am going to be in grade 5! 🙁
This video is excellent! If only this trick was taught in all the elementary schools.. Kids would not fear the dreaded 6’s and 7’s
Thank you
I’m in going to 4 th grade need to learn. 7 then I’m done
haha im in 7th grade learning this stupid me
Very cool!!! Thanks!!!
6 times 6 = 36
i was wondering about that! thanks for “proving” the math for this one!
I’m going to the 6th grade and I don’t know my times tables. 🙁
im so scared 🙁
im going to 6 th grade and I’m very scared that idk my times tables
i dont get this at all and i feel very dumb
That ‘s nice ,never know that before!
Alright, I like it. Similar to the 9x table trick. For some it may be too complicated, but for some it might just work. Thanks.
thank you
i passed my maths exam
Thanks ♥
Its very cool, but i think that is easiest to study the 9 tables and is faster to solve. Anyway, is an interesting method.
it cool
This is really important to my highschool studies Thank you for sharing this.
I’m amazed of this lesson. It’s too important!
Cool
It was
wow my mouth was wide opened through out the whole video
cool muliplication hand trick
it is wonderful trick especially for kids…i think my nephew and niece can score better now :D…thanks!
Its soo good im gonna teach my class!
I can prove this with algebra. Email me if you need me to send you my proof.
Hi – touch your thumbs together – that’s 20. Then 4 fingers x 4 fingers is 16. So 20 + 16 = 36
wat is six times six
1×1=1. You have to multiply the # of fingers on your left hand with the # of fingers on your right hand.
no, he showed that you multiply the finger amounts behind the two fingers touching. since there are 1 pinky times 1 pinky = 1 . you don’t add the pinkies
WOOOOAAAAAAHHHH THATS REALLY COOOLL im in grade 5 but I dint really know my times tables, this reaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy helped, thank youuu
That’s great 🙂 happy to post on MathsWrap if you would like?
Thanks for the video our girls loved it so much they made their own video.
O ok i get it!!! :). Thanx. Srr ppl :() lol
9*9= 81. U actually have 2 pinkies. So it would be 82
Love it! Thanx for explaining
Hi – thanks for question. I was shown it by a lady from Latvia (I think) and it just stuck in my mind. Really glad it helps!
Thanks for uploading, great fun, my 5, 7 and 8 year old boys are going to love this!
Where did this cool little trick originate from and does it have a name?
I watched this with my 7 and 9 year olds and we were all blown away. They can now both multiply very quickly on their hands.
Thank you so much!
thanks thanks great
what is 7 times 9 i now no that it is 63 thank u man u are the best plz reply.
hahaha that’s great!! 🙂 I have just shown my 8yr old son how to do that and he thinks it’s AWESOME…he’s going to show his class tomorrow!! 🙂 Thanks, Juanita.
Hi Devonte – thanks for the comment and glad you liked the video 🙂
thank you plz reply
im in grade 6
im dumb in math im 12 years old and i can still memorize 6 tables in multiplication 🙁
This is crazy! Wow! My students will thank you!
very nice.
Thanks you
It’s really beautiful.
Is it possible to perform a technique with your fingers for the lower numbers?
ok….thanks….
Hi – touch both thumbs – that’s 20. Then fingers are 4 x 4 = 16. So 20 + 16 = 36… hope this is OK. All best S
how about 6X6?
🙂
at first i was sceptical but damn this works…
Thank you so much, my daughter really needs this. They don’t teach rote tables in school anymore, so this will come in handy.
hahahaha. cool! thanks
Thankyou
Check out tecmath!(I am not tecmath)
That s amazin
Oh my god
Simply Wonderful!
thanks so much this helped me get better grade
that is really helpfull for my times tables so kind of you!!
genius 🙂
pretty cool i gotta admit
Thank you for sharing 🙂
This is great! I’ve never seen this method. I will definately be sharing with my neice, should be extremely helpfull for her.
Thats Brilliant!! x
only works for number combinations containing 6-10
My mom taught me this when i was on 1st grade before bed. I thought i was the only one who knows how to multiply using hands. All my classmates in elementary,highschool and college didnt know this. My husband didnt know how to do this. For real, i thought I was the only one. 🙂
Easy way to help your kids learn to multiply 6 x 6 to 10 x10! Brilliant!
Thx bro!
I remember this from 3 rd grade 🙂
i love you, that is awesome!
great video but it also wrong the limits are 6×6 to 10×10 you cant multiply 10 x 3 using your fingers
Thank you so much I am trying to re learn my timestables and this is just the trick now all i need to do is remember my 3x and 4 lol
Brilliant…and what made it even better was that you were animated and fun to watch. Ask me another!!! I’m still smiling now 🙂
closed finger is 10
just closed the finger.. no need to join it.
As a teacher, this will be so helpful to students who get frustrated! Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow! Wish I knew this when I was younger!
im confused … i feel dumb !
thats easy!
awsome
This is great! Thanks!
Wow!
Really glad 🙂
so helpful!
That’s great – really glad it helped 🙂
This helped me so much! Thank you!
I know all my tables……….. of coffee!
It’s easier to just learn the tables
I’m 70 and just learning the table…this has made a huge difference for me…thanks 🙂
Cool
thank you 🙂
can you do one on 12s
Awesome
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!! MATH TO ME IS LIKE ANOTHER LANGUAGE! YOUR HELPED SO MUCH 🙂
Mind blown!
thank you i had to learn my 6 tables over night this saved my life
OK essayer toutes les tables de 6 x 6 à 10 x 10 …. que vous pratiquez cela devrait aider. Merci pour votre commentaire et des meilleures tout. S
*Finger Math: Times Tables Using Your Hands*
This is a great, easy to master, way to solve multiplication problems from
6×6 up to 10×10.
So-long as you’ve mastered your times tables up to 5×5, this will help
bridge the gap until you’ve mastered your times tables up to 10×10!
Go forth and multiply, folks!
This was a new one for me… but it works!