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Beat your 3rd graders: times tables at speed

Twenty facts from the 2s to the 9s, three boxes each, the clock running. The wrong boxes are the ones the bank gives children, and each one says which slip it stands for.

20 questions, three boxes each. The clock starts when you press Start, and each question is read aloud.

Where the wrong boxes come from

  • One box is a near miss: the next row of the same table, so 7 × 8 sits beside 7 × 9 = 63 or 6 × 8 = 48.
  • Where it is close enough to tempt, the other is a real misconception: adding instead of multiplying, or the digits of the answer turned round.
  • Never a silly number: never below zero and never far past the answer, so the right box can't be found by elimination.
  • The three boxes are shuffled, so the odd-looking one is not always the wrong one.

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The best answer to every question, and why
  1. 6 × 9 54. 6 × 9 = 54.
  2. 3 × 6 18. 3 × 6 = 18.
  3. 8 × 8 64. 8 × 8 = 64.
  4. 6 × 7 42. 6 × 7 = 42.
  5. 5 × 6 30. 5 × 6 = 30.
  6. 5 × 8 40. 5 × 8 = 40.
  7. 8 × 6 48. 8 × 6 = 48.
  8. 4 × 2 8. 4 × 2 = 8.
  9. 8 × 2 16. 8 × 2 = 16.
  10. 8 × 7 56. 8 × 7 = 56.
  11. 6 × 6 36. 6 × 6 = 36.
  12. 9 × 3 27. 9 × 3 = 27.
  13. 8 × 9 72. 8 × 9 = 72.
  14. 9 × 4 36. 9 × 4 = 36.
  15. 3 × 3 9. 3 × 3 = 9.
  16. 2 × 9 18. 2 × 9 = 18.
  17. 7 × 5 35. 7 × 5 = 35.
  18. 2 × 5 10. 2 × 5 = 10.
  19. 6 × 2 12. 6 × 2 = 12.
  20. 2 × 3 6. 2 × 3 = 6.

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