Maths game
Times Tables Rocket
Every times-table fact is a picture: 3 × 4 is rows of stars you can count. Explore the tables, then answer 12 questions to fuel the rocket and fly it all the way to Neptune!
- Ages 7–10
- Multiplication
- Arrays
- Fluency
Pick a table and a number. The stars line up row by row, and you count along.
Times table
3 times 4 equals 12
4 rows of 3 stars
Times
Tables for this mission
Question 1 of 12
Second chance
5 times 7 is what?
Keyboard: Tab to a choice and press Enter. In typing mode use the number keys, Backspace and Enter.
10 left
| × | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 10 | |||
| 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 20 | |||
| 5 | 5 | 15 | 25 |
Tap an empty square, then type its answer.
Keyboard: arrow keys move between empty squares, number keys type, Enter checks.
Pick a table and a number. Watch the stars line up!
Facts you know
Each square is one fact. It lights up when you get it right. 3 × 4 and 4 × 3 light up together.
- Know it
- Practising
- Not yet
A full chart for the wall, or a practice sheet with the tables you picked.
Times-table chart
| × | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 20 |
| 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 30 |
| 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 | 40 |
| 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 50 |
| 6 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 30 | 36 | 42 | 48 | 54 | 60 |
| 7 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 | 42 | 49 | 56 | 63 | 70 |
| 8 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 40 | 48 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 80 |
| 9 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 36 | 45 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 81 | 90 |
| 10 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 |
Tip: every number on the diagonal is a square number. The chart is the same on both sides of it, because 3 × 4 = 4 × 3.
Times tables practice
Multiply
- 3 × 9 = ______
- 2 × 6 = ______
- 2 × 2 = ______
- 6 × 3 = ______
- 4 × 8 = ______
- 4 × 10 = ______
- 7 × 2 = ______
- 5 × 9 = ______
- 4 × 7 = ______
- 5 × 2 = ______
- 5 × 5 = ______
- 10 × 2 = ______
- 2 × 4 = ______
- 8 × 2 = ______
- 7 × 5 = ______
- 4 × 4 = ______
- 4 × 5 = ______
- 7 × 3 = ______
- 3 × 10 = ______
- 4 × 6 = ______
- 3 × 8 = ______
- 2 × 3 = ______
- 3 × 3 = ______
- 4 × 9 = ______
Find the missing number
- 5 × ____ = 25
- ____ × 2 = 4
- ____ × 2 = 8
- 5 × ____ = 45
- 3 × ____ = 9
- 5 × ____ = 50
- 10 × ____ = 30
- ____ × 8 = 24
Fill in the grid
| × | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | |
| 3 | 3 | 12 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 16 | |||
| 5 | 5 | 20 |
How to play
- See it. In Explore, every fact is rows of stars. Count along and flip the picture: 3 × 4 = 4 × 3.
- Fly. Pick tables and answer 12 questions. Right answers fill the fuel bar and lift the rocket past the planets.
- Know it. A slip shows the stars and comes back later. Watch your facts map light up square by square.