Times Tales = Fun, Fast & Easy Multiplication
Last week, my husband was helping me teach math to our boys. He made a remark about how they were both struggling with multiplication.
You can imagine how that went over. My self worth as a mother, wife, and person is completely wrapped up in my homeschool abilities (not really, at least not anymore, but I have been there).
I had Times Tales on my wish list and hubby’s remark motivated me to order the program that day. When it arrived I taught both boys for less than one hour (behind Dad’s back).
It’s a cute system of short stories (only 4 sentences) for each math problem. The stories help them remember the answers.
I do well with stories and apparently my boys do too. In less than an hour both of them learned all the facts they were having trouble with! You know the ones: 3×6, 3×7, 3×8, 3×9, 4×6, 4×7, 4×8, 4×9, 6×6, 6×7, 6×8, 6×9, 7×7, 7×8, 7×9, 8×8, 8×9, 9×9. They loved it and asked for more!
I sat them in front of Daddy with the Times Tales flash cards. He was really surprised how quick the shouted out each answer. I was elated and validated. 
This video shows even a kindergartner can learn the times tables.
Times Tales is a creative, innovative mnemonic-based program that makes it fun and easy to memorize the upper multiplication facts.
Times Tales uses cute, simple stories to provide students with a “memory peg”, allowing them to quickly recall otherwise abstract facts.
- Covers the most difficult to memorize times tables
- FAST – most children learn in two 45 minute sessions!
- Non-consumable – can be used by the whole family.
- FUN – kids love this learning method and ask for more!
- Free – Free printable math worksheets from the website!
This certainly doesn’t take the place of a regular math program. It is a supplement. But it the best supplement I’ve ever purchased.
Tomorrow division!
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We’ve just recieved our Times Tales resource and it is working for us also. So simple but I’m glad someone else put it together for me!
We use it with our ds8 who we believe to be a visual spatial learner. Good choice. Blessings, Renelle
Wow! This is great!!! I signed up for their free trial and loved it immediatelly. Thanks for sharing with us!
There are videos, games and lesson plans for both multiplication and division on the brand new website arithmeticvillage.com! Maybe they will help:)
Thank you for this recommendation!
Thanks for the tip. I think I would use this resource book for my little daughter. She is still in first grade this year and this would come in very handy once she starts with multiplication.
As for my older ones, I try challenging them with different methods. Besides playing online math games, I present to them different methods to faster solutions.
Even though they are doing fairly good in school in general, and are able to find solutions the typical way, I’d challenge them to a different, higher level approach to finding the same answer. For instance, I once started asking them easy multiplication question to see who would answer first. Once the numbers started getting harder they started racing to solve the problem on paper. After that I asked them to solve mentally with no pencil and paper, and offered a prize to the first one who comes up with the right answer. Once the numbers got to hard to process in their brain, I asked them how they would feel if I taught them a simple process to quickly come up with the answer. Once they got real excited and eager to know the trick, I took a pen and paper and taught them how to use algebra solution to come up with the answer without resorting to a pen and paper. The solution I taught them was simply using the trinomial square (x + y)2 = x2 + 2xy + y2 to the square of 2 digits, up to 99. They thought it was a longer process at first, but after a few practice examples they discovered it was much faster and easier. You can learn about the process on this blog Fun Learning
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Thanks for recommending this. Anything that can help kids in this area is worhtwhile. I like using math board games to help kids with their times tables but this looks like a much faster way to master multiplication! Math Games