The multiplication challenge

Some people find it very difficult to learn the times tables. They seem to lose the facts as fast as they learn them.

We have another way to learn the times tables. It's not a magic cure. It requires effort, and lots of practice.

But when it starts to work, you'll find that not only are you mastering the times tables facts, your understanding of numbers has improved, too.

Confidence and skill make number work much easier. Numbers that many people find difficult to comprehend, like 9, become less threatening when connected to easier numbers, like 10. We provide those connections.

Our program helps you to develop the “easy” facts, using methods which then will help you learn more difficult multiplicaton facts.

Tools for the Times Tables

If rote memorization of the tables is frustrating, here's a hands-on solution: Concept-based mastery of the multiplication tables.

Tools for the Times Tables gives learners tools to understand multiplication concepts first, and then to recall the facts quickly and easily.

For students who are visual or kinesthetic (hands-on) learners, this book provides ways to quickly and accurately rebuild the facts without having to “count out” the answer.

Download a sample chapter.

Tools for the Times Tables Workbook

This companion to the instruction book provides extensive practice in multiplication.

Using illustrations, coins and other structured multisensory teaching tools, the workbook gives a student several ways to see and use her growing ability to multiply.

The workbook is available as a printed edition or a PDF. Either one may be used to produce as many copies of the workbook as needed by the purchaser in the classroom.

Download a sample chapter.

About the authors

Tools for the Times Tables was developed by Dr. Steve Chinn, founder and headmaster of the Mark School for pupils with dyslexia in the United Kingdom. The school holds the prestigious Beacon School status.

Dr. Chinn is widely known for his experience in math and as co-author of Mathematics for Dyslexics and other instructional materials.

In 1984, he was visiting head of a specialist school in Baltimore, MD, where he got to know the team that edited Tools for the Times Tables for teachers, tutors and homeschoolers in the United States. Susan Jones was a teacher at that school in Baltimore, and applied her years of classroom experience to developing the Tools for the Times Tables Workbook.

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