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Multiplication flash cards

Pick the tables and turn the cards. The ones you miss come back until you know them, and every deck prints double-sided.

Flash cards

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Keys: Space or Enter turns the card over. K or → is Knew it, L or ← is Still learning.

Print flash cards

On the sheets
The cards chosen above, in the same order. Print at 100% (actual size), double-sided, flipping on the long edge.
Times tables flash cards: fronts, sheet 1 of 119 × 45 × 19 × 58 × 57 × 34 × 511 × 129 × 107 × 118 × 28 × 38 × 8 Print double-sided, flipping on the long edge, then cut along the dashed lines.Made at stringmash.com/multiplication-flash-cards
Times tables flash cards: backs, sheet 1 of 11369 × 455 × 1459 × 5408 × 5217 × 3204 × 513211 × 12909 × 10777 × 11168 × 2248 × 3648 × 8 This side is mirrored left to right so each answer lands behind its question.Made at stringmash.com/multiplication-flash-cards

How the cards work

Tick the tables to practise and press the card, or Space, to turn it over. Then say how it went. Knew it puts the card on the known pile. Still learning sends it back into the deck three cards later, so it turns up again before the answer you saw has faded.

A round ends when every card is known. Cards that needed more than one go are listed at the end, and Practise these again deals only those.

Turned round too adds 3 × 7 as well as 7 × 3. They're the same fact, but a child who knows one often stalls on the other. Type the answer swaps the buttons for a box, and the card is marked for you.

This browser keeps your place in each deck, so a half-done round is still there tomorrow. It isn't sent anywhere.

Printing double-sided

Each sheet of fronts is followed by a sheet of backs. Print on both sides and choose to flip on the long edge, often called long-edge binding. The back of a portrait sheet turns over left to right, so the backs are placed mirror-wise. The answer to the top-left card sits top right on the back page, and lands behind its question.

Print at 100% (actual size), or the two sides can drift apart. Each back shows its question small in the corner too, so a card that's slightly off is still easy to check.

No duplex printer? Choose Fold. Each card is printed as a front and back side by side, to cut round and fold down the dotted line.

Which tables, and when

In England, the national curriculum expects pupils to recall the multiplication and division facts up to 12 × 12 by the end of Year 4. The US Common Core asks for every product of two one-digit numbers from memory by the end of grade 3 (3.OA.C.7).

Start with 2, 5 and 10, which follow patterns children can already hear. Then 3, 4 and 8, then 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12. Shuffled is the real test. In order, a child can count up from the card before.

Sending missed cards back sooner comes from Sebastian Leitner, a German science journalist. His 1972 book So lernt man lernen sorted cards into boxes, and a wrong answer sent a card back to the first box. These cards keep the part that matters in a single sitting.

Questions

Can I print only some tables?

Yes. The printed cards are the ones ticked for the on-screen deck, in the same order. Untick the rest before you print.

Why are the backs in a different order?

They're in mirrored positions so each answer lines up behind its question when the paper turns over on the long edge. The writing itself reads normally.

The backs don't line up with the fronts. What went wrong?

Usually the printer flipped on the short edge, or scaled the page. Choose long-edge flipping and print at 100%. If it still drifts, the Fold layout needs only one side.

Is my progress saved?

In this browser, if it allows storage. Nothing is sent to us. Start this deck over clears it, and a private window starts afresh.

Are there division and addition cards?

Yes. Change Cards to division, addition or subtraction, or go to the [division flash cards](/division-flash-cards) and [addition flash cards](/addition-flash-cards).

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