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I’ve used this idea with spellings before, but it also works well for tables! The children do a big, loopy, continuous line that overlaps - essentially a big scribble! In the smaller loops, they write the facts they’re most confident with. They fill the bigger ones with the facts they’re less confident with.
It can be jazzed up even more than this example from one of my Y3s by using different colours for different facts...rainbow scribbles!
Helen

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One person stands behind another at their seat and the fastest one to answer a times table question moves on to the next person, until you have a champion! My class have been asking to play it each day - and I have noticed how much speedier they have got.  A good 10 minute end of the day game. We’ve had a different champ every day of the week - which is good - I was worried it would be the same person winning every day! Lydia

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5E Started with a metre stick warm up, chanting the 7x tables, then we did them in reverse. After, I pointed to different spots on the metre stick ie 30 cm and they answered 21.
But the most fun was ....hearing the children singing the 7x table song.

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7 X with letters - can they work out the value of each letter - hide the answers.

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7 X with letters - can they work out the value of each letter - hide the answers.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdF_vFAxwas&safe=active

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I am planning to play 7 times table BINGO with 4E tomorrow.
Jo Allen

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Poster for LA. I printed out for them to copy into UIOLI.

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My class have really enjoyed playing 7 times table dominoes.
Charlotte

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I put this powerpoint together last year to show the Year 4s that there is actually only 3 facts we need to 'learn' in the 7 times table as they already know the rest due to their knowledge of other times tables!
Charlotte

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7 Times Table Song (Cover of Happy by Pharrell Williams) Easy Learn Skip Count

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This one should not be new - the current Year 5 classes will all be very familiar - but you could say that 'Moonbeam' and her space linked rhymes within the song have (tenuous) links with the space part of Here we are.
We can't get up and get active with this in class like normal, but Y4 found last year that drawing out favourite phrases eg "8 x 7 is 56, do some cosmic football tricks!" can be both fun and memory jogging.

Helen

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My class loved this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4xU4CiaGvg&safe=active

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7 Times Table Song (Learning is Fun The Todd & Ziggy Way!)

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Some ideas which might be useful

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Sanitise some 1p, 2p, 5p, and 10p coins (no more than 12 of each) and ask your child to separate them into piles.

Take it in turns to pick up a small number of the same coin. Estimate how much money you think you have and then count in groups to find the answer. How close were you?

3. Playing card products

A bit of healthy competition between siblings or friends can be a great motivator for learning some of the trickier times tables! This game is most suitable for children aged 7-11, but can be adapted for younger children.

1. Take a pack of cards and remove the Kings and Jokers. In this game, Aces = 1, Jacks = 11, and Queens = 12.

2. Deal 6 cards to each player.

3. Each player places 1 card down at the same time, and then both players must multiply the cards together.

4. The winner of the hand is the player who says the correct product first (the 'product' is the name we give to the result when two numbers are multiplied together). The winner picks up the played cards.

5. When a player runs out of cards, they pick up 2 more from the spare pile.

6. The winner is the one with the most cards when the spare pile is empty.

If you want to adapt the game for children aged 5-7, take one of the 2s, 5s, or 10s and place it face up in the middle of the table. This is the times table you are practising.

Each player should work out the product of the card they put down and the card in the middle of the table, with the winner of each hand the player who gets their answer first.

4. Recipe scaling

To show older children how times tables help in a real-life context, look at recipes and scale up or down the quantities for more or fewer people. For example:

A recipe makes 4 portions. Ask your child to work out what quantities would be needed for 2 people, or 8 people, or 20 people. They will need to multiply each quantity in the recipe by the same amount.

5. Multiplication bingo

Each player makes a 3 × 3 grid by drawing squares on a piece of paper. Within each of the 9 squares, each player writes answers from whichever times table you are focusing on in a random order. For example, if looking at the 8 times tables, each player would choose 9 answers from: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96.

The caller thinks of a random calculation from the times table - for example, 7 × 8. If the answer is on the player's card, they cross it out. The winner is the first person to cross out all their answers and shout 'Bingo!'

There are lots of other games to explore which help with the learning of times tables, so remember to always keep an eye out for new ideas. Opportunities to practise maths skills are everywhere!

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Sanitise some 1p, 2p, 5p, and 10p coins (no more than 12 of each) and ask your child to separate them into piles. Take it in turns to pick up a small number of the same coin. Estimate how much money you think you have and then count in groups to find the answer.

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Here are some 7x table mnemonics I did with my class.  There are images, rhymes to chant (in a socially distanced non-shouting way), clap along to etc.  NB. some do require the teaching of commutativity which halves the tables you have to learn and shows links.  Still working on something better for 3x7, 4x7 and 6x7.  Any ideas?
Elliott x