Patterns, Tips & Tricks for Times Tables

Are you looking for ways to teach number patterns for times table for times tables? Make investigating times table maths fun with these engaging activities. Your students will love working out patterns as explained in this resource and it will help them to remember number facts.

The activities outlined here will help your students ‘see’ number patterns, and learn and consolidate times table facts, which is great for recall. Differentiation is easy as times tables can be easy or tricky, but the notes in this product will help them to remember. Students will love investigating and won’t even realize how much they are learning about numbers and times tables.

Ideas about how to teach about:

• patterns for times tables
• Questions to ask to steer students’ thinking about numbers
  activities & investigations to do
• tips and tricks about times tables to 12 - some tricks to remember those tricky multiplications for instance I have found 7 x 8 tricky until someone said to me to turn this round and say 56 = 7 x 8 and you have 5, 6, 7, 8 - so simple to remember now!
• numbers that occur frequently and patterns to look out for
• interesting facts about numbers in different times tables
• how to use easier times tables to work out harder ones e.g. 2x8 = double 2x2 and double again - and understand why this works
• seeing number connections will make future maths easier when students work with bigger numbers
• 100 squares to use for investigations

Make these investigations into exciting lessons that will let your students see number patterns which will help them in future maths problem-solving lessons plus remembering those key essential multiplication skills and times tables.

These teaching ideas and investigations are suggested for years 2 – 4 but may also be suitable for other year groups.

• these tips and investigations are great for home education as they will give you plenty of ideas about how to teach about number patterns.
• ideal to use as part of a lesson practicing times tables
• great to play as a fun game outside of formal teaching - ‘drip feeding’ learning and maths into other parts of the day

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