Multiplication wheel

Q: Can I add the 11s and 12s?

Yes. Type extra facts such as “11 × 12” or “12 × 12” in Entries. Adding all of the 11s and 12s pushes the wheel past 60 slices, where the labels get small, so drop the 2s and the 10s to make room.

Flash cards get shuffled once and then pile up in a drawer. This wheel draws a new fact every time you spin, and the answer stays off the screen, so the student has to come up with it.

Click the wheel or press SpaceTap the wheel to spin

Entries, one per line

45 entries on the wheel

Paste a column from a spreadsheet, or type. Write Anna *3 to give Anna three times the chance.

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Times tables from 2 to 10, each fact once

The wheel holds every product from 2 × 2 up to 10 × 10, with each pair written once: 4 × 7 is on it, 7 × 4 is not, because by third grade most students learn that the order doesn't change the answer. That gives 45 facts. The ones and the tens are the easy part, so only the tens stay in, as a quick confidence boost.

Answers are deliberately left off. A parent or teacher checks out loud, or the student writes the product on a whiteboard before anyone looks it up. For a self-check, keep a printed times-table chart face down on the desk and flip it after each spin.

Most kids don't need all 45 at once. A student working on the 6s does better with a wheel of ten facts, 6 × 1 through 6 × 10, than with a mix where the 6s turn up every fourth spin.

What's on this wheel

2 × 2
2 × 3
2 × 4
2 × 5
2 × 6
2 × 7
2 × 8
2 × 9
2 × 10
3 × 3
3 × 4
3 × 5
3 × 6
3 × 7
3 × 8
3 × 9
3 × 10
4 × 4
4 × 5
4 × 6
4 × 7
4 × 8
4 × 9
4 × 10
5 × 5
5 × 6
5 × 7
5 × 8
5 × 9
5 × 10
6 × 6
6 × 7
6 × 8
6 × 9
6 × 10
7 × 7
7 × 8
7 × 9
7 × 10
8 × 8
8 × 9
8 × 10
9 × 9
9 × 10
10 × 10

Practicing multiplication with the wheel

To focus on one table, open Entries, delete the list and type that table's ten facts, for example “7 × 1” through “7 × 10”, one per line.
Press Spin and say the product before the wheel has fully stopped. Racing the wheel is half the fun for eight-year-olds.
Take the facts a student answers quickly off the wheel with Remove from wheel. The tough ones stay in and come back sooner.
On a smartboard, use Present for a whole-class round: the teacher spins, students write their answer on a whiteboard and hold it up.

Multiplication wheel questions

Why aren't the answers on the wheel?

Because the point is recall. If the product showed up together with the problem, students would read it instead of working it out. The adult running the round confirms each answer, or the class checks it against a chart.

Can I add the 11s and 12s?

Yes. Type extra facts such as “11 × 12” or “12 × 12” in Entries. Adding all of the 11s and 12s pushes the wheel past 60 slices, where the labels get small, so drop the 2s and the 10s to make room.

Which facts give kids the most trouble?

Teachers usually name 6 × 8, 7 × 8, 7 × 6 and 8 × 8. Make those come up more often by adding a weight, like 7 × 8 *3, which triples the chance of that slice.

Is there a printable multiplication wheel?

This one is for the screen, but you can take a screenshot of the wheel and print it. For practice away from a device, a deck of flash cards made from the same 45 facts works too.

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Times tables from 2 to 10, each fact once

What's on this wheel

Practicing multiplication with the wheel

Multiplication wheel questions

Why aren't the answers on the wheel?

Can I add the 11s and 12s?

Which facts give kids the most trouble?

Is there a printable multiplication wheel?

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