Times Table Trick - Learn your times tables instantly! 

I've always had issues remembering my 6 - 8 times tables for the longest time, even into adulthood which has embarrassing! been following your channel for a while now and this is just what i needed to really be comfortable with working them out on the fly, thank you for showing us this one, genuinely great trick!

My dad taught me this at a young age and I used to feel like I was cheating in elementary math quizzes but it helped alot!

🤯 😮 I’m 40 years old and this is AMAZING! I wish I had known about this when I was kid because learning times tables sucked! LOVE THIS!!!!!

Thank you, I Lear ed this trick many years ago from a friend that was a Math Professor. Several times over several years I tried comming up with that trick but I have not been alble to, now I can put it to rest. Holly smokes, Thank you for the key !😁😊

I like this but I think the explanation can be improved slightly for the harder cases of 6x6, 6x7, and 7x6 in which you get a product of non-bunched fingers equaling a value greater than 9. If you do 6x6, you have 2 bunched fingers (which would be 2 in the tens place or 20) and then 4 unbunched on each hand. 4x4 is 16, which you can’t simply put in the ones place, but must add 20 and 16 to get 36.

OMG. I wish someone taught me this trick when I was a kid. This would have helped me a lot. But I guess I could teach this trick to my kids and students. Thank you so much

This is AMAZING! I have struggled for years and found other less- quick ways to do multiplication. Thank you for sharing! I’m going to share with my friends with kiddos- OR adults like myself.

Oh my gosh! I am today 's year old and learning this trick! 😂😂😂 I am 37 years old and came here looking for some help to teach my children. Thanks so much.

This is way harder than just multiplying the numbers..

Someone in a different group linked this wondering why this is true. Took me about 10 minutes, but figured out why, if anyone's interested. Any number 10 or less, can be rewritten as 10 minus that number. So for example 6 = 10-4. So let's take 2 numbers, say 7 and 9 and rewrite 7 * 9 as (10-3)(10-1). Distributing, we get 100-30-10+3. The 100 represents all fingers, the 30 and 10 that we 'take away' are 3 and 1 fingers that are not grouped together on the left and right hands respectively, leaving just 6 fingers together in the middle, ie. 60. And the 3 and 1 which are not together in the middle are the two digits that are multiplied together, which are added to the 60, giving us our 63.

There's a real easy way to remember your 9 times. For example. 9x2= 18 9x3= 27 As you can see the first number in each answer is one number lower than what it's being times by. And then the 2 numbers in the answer will always add up to 9. Some more examples. 9x3= 27 see that the first number in the answer 2 is one number lower than 3. And then the second number in the answer 7 makes it add up to 9. 9x4= 36 9x5= 45 And so on. Easy peasy....

What a great idea. I struggled with the tables until I was in my 20s

This is a clever trick but I think harder to remember than the tables themselves.

This is harder than just learning your times tables from memory, my head just blew up 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

There is a very simple trick on the fingers for the 9x table up to 10. Hold fingers out same as in the video (although my thumbs always tend to be on the outside as I look at my palms, but it doesn't matter). Example: 4x9 .. Count from left to right and twitch each finger as you go, then bend the 4th finger. How many fingers left of that? =3. How many fingers right of that bent finger = 6. Answer =36. I always teach this to young kids😁

Wow. Try it multiple ways. It works

Where were you when I was in 3rd -4th Grade in the 70’s! ? What a great tool for people having trouble with this.

How incredibly astute!!!!! Thinking outside the 'Box'...!!!!

As a kid in was taught the 9 times table using my hands, but in a different way. For instance, if unwanted 7 x 9, you would close down your 7th finger and count the fingers on the left and then the right giving you 63

Dude. U have just helped me get through school for ever😂😂

I solved with different numbers and I was like-😮😲😲. Your content is really great , I like your work!❤️

Is 6x6 and 6x7 not viable with this?

That seems like so much work, memorizing the multiplication table is so much easier. We were taught to do that and when I had kids every time we got in the car we would start with the ones and work up to the twelves. Today they’re in their 30,s now I can’t even imagine them using their fingers to count.

That's cool.... way back in the day I was taught my 9's.. 9x6=... jus count your fingers from one side to the other... 1,2,3,4,5,6... fold six down what left. 5 before the six... and 4 on the other side 6... = 54..

This is great! Starting in 5th grade I had a fear of multiplication but instead of memorizing the table I came up with a pretty interesting way to find the answer. Because I could tell time I became really good at the five multiplication tables. So I would use the 5s as my foundation For example 8 * 6 becomes 8 * 5 which is 40. Then I would add another 8. I did this all the way through high school. Lol

So cool‼️ I am 61 yrs. old & I have never heard of this! Even at my age , I do sometimes struggle with these times tables, so this is very handy for me. Thank you very much for this informative video. I’ve subbed and am excited to see what other things I can learn on this channel❗️ ❤️fromOregon🇺🇸

That is very helpful,,,, wish i taught this to my brother when he first learned multiplication

Thank you so much. I can only multiply now when I am 62 years old. Why didn't anyone tell me. I always failed my maths in school.

That is very helpful! My kids love multiplying now...thank you so much!😊

This reminds me of a really neat and easy way of memorizing the alphabet: you first print the 26 letters of the alphabet onto the facets of a rubik's cube, then fill in the remaining facets in reverse order, starting with the middle of the first letter. Then, you deduce the rubik's cube into simple quadrangles and find the common denominator of each letter by using a simple, everyday ouiji board. The spirit guardians will then tell you the correct order of each letter of the alphabet! It's difficult for me to understand why this isn't taught as the standard method of calculating!

This might be good for emergency for teaching kids, but it can be confusing be they don't have the same method for some of them, for example, the 6x6 and 6x7 and require a slight different method.

this really helped me a lot, thanks!

That's a nice trick, I'll be practicing that one. Thank you!

Can you imagine walking around with numbers tattooed on your fingers?!!🤣🤣

As an older person I greatly appreciate this free method God Bless you and your channel 😊❤🎉

Amazing!!! Thank you good sir!

Marvelous! I’m 36 and have never learned this trick. I knew a finger trick with the 9X. It’s a little different, but works every time. Thank you!!

This makes it so easy!!!!! Woah, thank you!!!!!1

This would have been helpful as a child in school because my dad was in the Air Force and we traveled around a lot.. Each school I went to would have a different Curriculum and some things were taught to me twice and some things were not taught because they were already covered in the grade prior apparently, Or were to be taught later at some point when I inevitably would not be there. I did fairly well in other subjects - didn't miss a beat in English/Literature, Grammer or Spelling but my Maths always suffered. Never cared much for history, but later on learned that you don't get the real history until college level anyway.

I did not know the bunch up trick that would've been helpfull in school lol I did learn very early Timeing bye 9 is simpler just by holding hands up palms away from you with all 10 fingers up starting with the Pinky finger on left hand counting over to 6 which makes your Thumb on the right hand 6 tuck thumb away which leaves 5 fingers on left hand 4 on right still standing makes the 6x9=54 answer aswell....it works for any 9×'s from 1-9...say 9x3 hands up facing out start with left pinky... Middle finger is 3 drop Middle finger down you have 2 fingers before the dropped finger 7 after the dropped finger 3x9=27. Hands up palms away 9x9 starting with little finger on left hand count over 9 drop down 9th how many fingers stand before now the number that stand after ✌️😊👍

7 x 8 is easy. The answer is 56. It's 56 7 8

This is more complicated than just memorizing them lol

Great trick. BUT, can you explain how it works?

Nice party trick.

Who the hell comes up with these things? That's amazing :-)

Who struggles with,10 times tables?????

I went through school with undiagnosed ADHD and found a lot of the ways I was taught, even basic things likes times tables or 24 hour clock, just didn't click in my brain. Now into my 20s, this has absolutely revolutionised how I do my trickier times tables!

Excellent 👍🏻👍🏻thank you

I saw this method in the movie "Stand and Deliver" and always wondered how it fully worked. Thanks for posting.

Just wow. Awesome!

You really helped my a lot with my multiplication, I wanted to learn multiplying numbers faster. Thank you so much.

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I have been really struggling with math, and due to the state testing and also I wish to succeed I need to learn times table and do other problems in subjects we’ve learned, thank you for this video I think this can help me a lot. Also I got that last problem right without you saying the answer! I think I get it!! :DD

So now I have to find a trick for: 6x6 and 6x7... because it doesn't work with these numbers 😁. Nice, thank you.

Where have you been all my life lol it’s so amazing to feel liberated knowing that I can do simple math. All these years I’ve been making it hard on myself all these years I’ve been trying to find a pattern and I knew it was a pattern. But the way you broke that down simple English smooth talking understood every word you said I could even show someone how to do this that was an amazing job you did what a wonderful teacher wonderful person to even spread this knowledge thank you God bless you I feel free you just don’t understand how good I feel no one how to do simple math.!!!! 💕💯🥰❤️🙌🙏🏿 12•16•21

That's so cool, thanks. ❤

This is awesome. I have a child that struggles with multiplication problem. This looks like a good idea. Thanks for sharing this with me.🙂

Omg that's amazing thank you very much 😊

My primary teacher used a giant jar of spangles sweeties and on our classroom back wall were huge colorful posters for each times table ..... We were allowed to use them when we did our sums and at the end of each day we all sat with our backs to the posters and she would choose three of us and we had to get 3 in a row correct without peeking at the charts to get a sweet and if we got one wrong , she'd say " turn and look at the table before sitting down " and even though I was disappointed I had no sweet , I remembered it next time she asked me !!!😉 Great motivation for us and we always ended the day with a particular times table to recite by rote ! She never showed favoritism and we all got a chance to shine and suck on a spangle .......course , this was in the 60's , but I have NEVER forgotten my times tables ....they stuck !!!!

this works 🤗thumbs up!

Thanks. I’m genuinely *struggling* with my times tables when I should have already learned them a couple years ago. It’s pretty embarrassing to be honest. This will definitely help a lot until I get them down properly. Thanks a ton!

That was interesting

Wow, I wish i would have seen this way back in the day. This is actually increible I can not believe this omg. Bless your soul❤❤

Brilliant !

Trying to apply this method for 7 x 6, for example. When you circle up you are getting 3 because you have 3 fingers caught up in the circle, and you have 3(left hand) x 4(right hand) =12 outside the circle. So the result according to the presented method will be 312. Instead, the real result is 42. It would work if I compact the first two digits of 312 and getting 3+1=4 but that would change the presented method.

Awesome, pretty cool.

These are brilliant. I already had a set of hands made up for the nines trick, which I already knew. My scholars and I are going to be making up a lot of hands to work with.

This is a very cute little trick. Except for the fact that it kind of dumbs people down.

This trick can be easily proven, but I really enjoy how you figure it out and turn it to a learning tip for kids

A much cooler and faster trick for 7 x 8 is this: 56=7x8, the numbers go in sequence, 5,6,7,8. For 6 x 8 we have the stupid rhyme, “six and eight went on a date, and came back as forty-eight.” Learning finger tricks is a disaster for students because they do the damned finger trick every time they are faced with the problem. If they are in the middle of multiplying decimals, or doing long division, the “finger tricks” detour them from the flow of the problem, they lose their place in the algorithm process and mistakes multiply faster than they can. I have been tutoring elementary school students with learning disabilities, struggling with math facts for 10 years, I have discovered that the method that works the best is rote learning of the facts, the same way that they learned the alphabet in kindergarten/first grade. We find five facts that they are struggling with, for instance 9 x 6, and I will have them write the fact, “9 x 6 = 54” five times across a sheet of notebook paper, and say the fact OUT LOUD while they are writing it, then they go on to the next fact, and do the same thing for all five facts. This process is repeated three times a day, taking a total of 10 minutes until they are proficient with the fact. We learn by seeing, by hearing, by saying, and by writing. By combining these four different learning processes the fact is leaned four times as fast. I demonstrate this to the students by holding up four fingers and ticking off the ways of learning, Then I demonstrate to them that each method by itself is as weak as a finger, but together they are “strong as a fist!” I also demonstrate using the alphabet, giving them the first three letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, and asking them to provide the next which they quickly provide as D. I show them that each separate math fact is an “A,B, C, D problem” and that the SOUND “56” follows the sound of “7 times 8” the same way the SOUND of D follows A,B,C.” This is why I stress SAYING the fact out loud as they write it. If your child is struggling, try this method, It has worked for dozens of the students that I have worked with.

Nice trick! Memorization is easier as you've already mentioned but this ensures you're remembering correctly!

Wish I'd known this in elementary school in the 60's. Could've taken piano for a year and loved it a lot more. Why don't they teach these tricks in school?

Why the hell didn't I learnd that at lower grades.

Why wasn’t math like this when I was growing up?

This might work, but it's way too slow. Spend a few minutes to learn your tables. Then, every now and then go over them to keep them fresh in your mind. You'll have the answer instantly.

Hey,you nailed it .i don't have words🎉 always struggled in tables but now i feel so good and confident 😄

👌 awesome

Is there any limitation? Could you tell me how to calculate 6×6 and 7×6 in this method, please?

I learned this at primary school in the 1970s, my kids & grandkids know how to use this method too.😊

Wow. Thank u.

Sir i really need your help in calculating divisions for decimals with big numbers. Often times in chemistry, there's always division where up to 3 or 4 decimals are present like 30.4607. Where four options have correct answer with decimal present. How do i divide quickly including the decimals.

9 times table has a slightly easier trick but this is easier since you only need 1 trick for multiple tables.

I found that very complicated, easier to learn the tables

Just gonna leave this here for my siblings

How about 6 x 6😮

Students in the Philippines have been using this method since elementary school. This technique has been utilized for many years, possibly even before I was born.

doesnt work for 6 times 7

Omg man thx this is best for exams because it take less time

1st view

When I was 9 years old that I used my fingers in adding or subtracting. Even used my toes in my shoes and even my face. I just have a good memory in multiple times table when I learned at the same age.

I taught both my children by rote by the time they were 6. They both knew their times tables perfectly up to 12x. There was a test: recite every single table flawlessly and then answer 10 quick fire questions without hesitation. It took my son 5 attempts and my daughter 6 attempts but they both succeeded and were rewarded. My son got a digital camera and my daughter something similar. Mostly what they got was a lifetime of instant answers.

I believe this method would cause more confusion with children trying to learn math.

I have never needed tricks to do multiplication of two numbers, especially between 6 and 10, but this is very cool 👍

great timestable trick, thanks for sharing

Tattoo it, what...🤣🤣🤣

What about 6x6? You may want to explain that one, it's a bit different.

dziękuję! super wiedza! 😊

Bro I swear it’s 1 in the morning and am 11 AND BRO AM HERE AT 1 AM TRYING TO LEARN MY TIME TABLES AFTER 1 YEAR OF NOT GOUNG TO SCHOOL I SWEAR THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH AM SO HAPPYYY!!!!

I know that already my fourth year teacher taught us how to do it, but it's really helpful to teach other how it works its actually pretty easy u learn it so fast

I was taught a different yet easier way for 9s. If say 9x6, you'd hold your hands out like in the video, close your 6th finger. So you'll have 5 fingers on the left side of your closed finger and 4 fingers on the right side making it 5 and 4 so 6x9=54 If maybe say 9x8, you'd close your 8th finger and do the exact same thing. 7 on the left, 2 on the right so 9x8=72. Eventually you'll find yourself just holding your hands out, glance at it and know the answer right away.