Times tables
Is your child stuck on their times tables?
They recite them one evening and forget them the next day. They count on their fingers for 7 × 8. Yet division, fractions and the year’s problems all depend on them. It is almost never a lack of ability: it is a question of method.
The 2, 5 and 10 tables are free. All the others: 49,00 DH, once.
The tell-tale signs
- They recite the table in order (“7, 14, 21…”) to find 7 × 6: they know it like a nursery rhyme, not as answers.
- They know 3 × 7 but not 7 × 3: they learn twice what is only one multiplication.
- They find it, but in more than ten seconds: in written calculation or division, that slowness makes them lose the thread.
- They know it the evening they revise, nothing a week later: the table was seen, not remembered.
Why it gets stuck
Learning the tables from 1 to 10 in order, all at once, means a hundred results to remember with no thread. Three things change everything:
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There are 55, not 100. 7 × 8 and 8 × 7 give the same result. A child who understands this almost halves what they have to remember.
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Order matters. The 2, 5 and 10 tables come quickly and build confidence. After them, nearly half the multiplications are known (27 out of 55) — the 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 tables remain, several of whose results are by then already known.
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Review later, not straight away. Reciting ten times the same evening gives the illusion of knowing. Recalling an answer a few days later is what fixes it.
The method, on Apprendre
Your child moves table by table: 2, 5 and 10 first, then 3, 4 and 9, and finally 6, 7 and 8. Before each table, we ask whether they already know it: if they say yes, five questions check it.
A new multiplication is discovered step by step: they see it, choose it among four answers, find the missing number. Then it comes back among ones already known, until they find it alone. After a mistake, the right answer is shown and the question comes back at once; the ones that resist come back more often.
A grid of all the multiplications colours in as they go. A square only turns green if the answer is found first time, twice in a row, in a few seconds; it turns dark green when it still is a week later.
You see the same grid as your child: you know exactly what is known and what is left to work on. A red dot marks the multiplications that resist.
- Mastered
- Remembered a week later
- Ongoing
What is free, what is paid
Free
The 2, 5 and 10 tables
With the grid, the tracking and the certificates, with no time limit.
49,00 DH, once
All the tables
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and the mix. Deducted if you then subscribe to the whole platform.
Frequently asked questions
- From what age?
- The tables are mostly learned in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of primary school. An older child who is still stuck finds the same method: we start from what they already know.
- How much time a day?
- Ten minutes is enough, several times a week. A little often is better than a lot at once.
- Should I help my child?
- Let them answer alone: a whispered answer would colour their grid without being known, and the grid would no longer tell the truth. Your role is to look at it with them.
- And if they make a mistake?
- The right answer is shown, and the same question comes back at once. The square goes back to “in progress”: that’s normal, it turns green again as soon as the answer comes back first time.
- How do I pay for the other tables?
- From the account, “Unlock all the tables” shows how to pay: bank transfer, Cash Plus, Wafacash, or from abroad. You click “I’ve paid”; as soon as the payment arrives, everything opens and a receipt is sent to you.
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