About this game

Multiplication facts

Multiplication facts: a free Grade 3 math game for ages 8-9. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.

How it plays and why it helps

Picture the car ride home, and a voice from the back seat asking, "What is 6 × 8 again?" The Multiplication facts game gives Grade 3 children a short, steady place to practice that recall. A round has five questions drawn from a bank of twenty facts, from 2 × 2 up to 9 × 9. Each one reads like "Calculate 3 × 4." Your child picks the product from four choices, and every answer is checked straight away.

Knowing facts by heart is not a race. It frees working memory for the harder steps that come next: division, area, and multi-step word problems. A hint is there if your child gets stuck, pointing back to a times table they already know.

Watch for one trap the choices are built around. For 2 × 9, one answer is 11, the sum. A child who rushes adds. Ask, "Is that two nines, or two plus nine?" Then let them choose again. Five facts done carefully beat twenty guessed. Close with the effort: "You stopped and checked the sign."

Aligned with

  • 3.OA.A.1 Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.
  • 3.OA.C.7 Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

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