Third graders usually learn their 2s, 5s, and 10s facts first, then 3s, 4s, and 6s, and by the time they reach 7, 8, and 9 the number of facts to hold in memory has grown large. These three tables also share several products that are easy to confuse, such as 7 x 8, 8 x 8, and 7 x 9, so a child who is close but not exact tends to land on a neighboring fact instead of the right one. This 24-question fluency page keeps every item inside the 7s, 8s, and 9s, works through each table in a mixed order so the answers cannot simply be counted down the page, and never asks the same fact twice. Most of the twenty-four items are the bare fact itself.
A handful ask your child to find a missing factor, solve a short word problem about equal groups, or pick the one true equation among several close look-alikes. Support versions use multipliers up to 7. Standard versions use multipliers from 2 to 9. Challenge versions focus on the hardest facts, such as 7 x 8, 8 x 9, and 9 x 9, with more missing factors and two-step word problems. Encourage your child to say the whole fact out loud before answering, and to check a guess by counting up or down from a fact they already know well, such as reaching 7 x 8 from 7 x 7.
What your child will learn
Recall multiplication facts for 7, 8, and 9 from memory
Practice the 7s, 8s, and 9s tables from x1 through x9
Tell a true multiplication equation from a false one
Find a missing factor when the product is known
Worked example
Seven groups of eight is fifty-six, because 7 x 8 = 56.
Common mistake
Confusing a fact with a neighboring one, such as answering 54 instead of 56 for 7 x 8.
Helpful hint
Say the whole fact out loud, then check it against a fact you already know.
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