Strategies and Teaching the Multiplication Facts

Looking to develop pupils long term memory and fluent recall of the multiplication facts? Pupils struggling to understand the concepts of pattern? Teachers in your school unsure or not teaching multiplication strategies?

This document is intended for maths leads to support the teachers in the teaching of timetables so that children have a deepened understanding of the facts and can apply these facts to their skills and knowledge within the math curriculum.

It provides an order to teach from years 2-4 as well as strategies that can be applied to any number e.g. multiply by 4 with the doubles double strategy so children can apply beyond 12 x 4. The order and strategies are based on education research.

It also explains why we should not use tricks like add a zero for multiplying by 10 or writing out the 0-9 in a downward column and 0-9 in an upward column.

Each strategy enhances conceptual understanding of the multiplication facts the commutative law is used with connections so children learn 72 facts not 144

Having used this in a number of school and had other Math leaders within our partnership use this document there has been instant impact