In my day, using your fingers would get you smacked by the teacher. Memory waa the means to learn 1-10, ranges. I'm late 80's, DC public school educated.
I've always had issues remembering my 6 - 8 times tables for the longest time, even into adulthood which has embarrassing! been following your channel for a while now and this is just what i needed to really be comfortable with working them out on the fly, thank you for showing us this one, genuinely great trick!
I like this but I think the explanation can be improved slightly for the harder cases of 6x6, 6x7, and 7x6 in which you get a product of non-bunched fingers equaling a value greater than 9. If you do 6x6, you have 2 bunched fingers (which would be 2 in the tens place or 20) and then 4 unbunched on each hand. 4x4 is 16, which you can’t simply put in the ones place, but must add 20 and 16 to get 36.
yess honestly i was confused because when i did the first step to 6x6, which is to put your two thumbs togetter, i was like wait its atleast 20? no it cant be wait let me check again and in the end i was still confused (somehow adding the 20 and 16 was not in my mind at that moment lol)
Someone in a different group linked this wondering why this is true. Took me about 10 minutes, but figured out why, if anyone's interested. Any number 10 or less, can be rewritten as 10 minus that number. So for example 6 = 10-4. So let's take 2 numbers, say 7 and 9 and rewrite 7 * 9 as (10-3)(10-1). Distributing, we get 100-30-10+3. The 100 represents all fingers, the 30 and 10 that we 'take away' are 3 and 1 fingers that are not grouped together on the left and right hands respectively, leaving just 6 fingers together in the middle, ie. 60. And the 3 and 1 which are not together in the middle are the two digits that are multiplied together, which are added to the 60, giving us our 63.
@@cajandjas let's do an algebra equation to figure out basic multiplication 😂😂 Seriously though, this was a good explanation for anyone wondering why the trick works. I think OP was just trying to help curious minds
So cool‼️ I am 61 yrs. old & I have never heard of this! Even at my age , I do sometimes struggle with these times tables, so this is very handy for me. Thank you very much for this informative video. I’ve subbed and am excited to see what other things I can learn on this channel❗️ ❤️fromOregon🇺🇸
This is AMAZING! I have struggled for years and found other less- quick ways to do multiplication. Thank you for sharing! I’m going to share with my friends with kiddos- OR adults like myself.
There is a very simple trick on the fingers for the 9x table up to 10. Hold fingers out same as in the video (although my thumbs always tend to be on the outside as I look at my palms, but it doesn't matter). Example: 4x9 .. Count from left to right and twitch each finger as you go, then bend the 4th finger. How many fingers left of that? =3. How many fingers right of that bent finger = 6. Answer =36. I always teach this to young kids😁
@@jinzala 5x5 wouldn't work because this is for the 9 times table from 1 to 10. Being the 9 times table 9x1 is better thought of as 1x9. As before, look at the palms of your hands with fingers played out. 1x9: count one digit (finger) in from the left (your left thumb). Left of that (the tens) is nothing, which equals zero. Right of the left thumb are 9 fingers, which equals 9. The answer is 09, or 9. Same if you did 10x9, always starting from the left you'd count all the way from left thumb (1) to right thumb (10), 9 digits to the left of it plus zero fingers to the right =90. Remember, remaining digits to the left of the bent finger are the tens, to the right they are the ones, nothing =zero. Another magical thing about the number nine is that any number where the individual numbers add up to 9, or a multiple of nine, will always be divisible by 9 exactly with no remainder, which is why 10 fingers with one bent finger for the multiplier works. As an example; you know the number 2,111,112 is divisible exactly by 9 with no remainder because the individual numbers all add up to 9 or a multiple of 9. Nine is a great number.
There's a real easy way to remember your 9 times. For example. 9x2= 18 9x3= 27 As you can see the first number in each answer is one number lower than what it's being times by. And then the 2 numbers in the answer will always add up to 9. Some more examples. 9x3= 27 see that the first number in the answer 2 is one number lower than 3. And then the second number in the answer 7 makes it add up to 9. 9x4= 36 9x5= 45 And so on. Easy peasy....
Even easier for your 9s only: put the finger down that you're multiplying by and the answer is the fingers that are before and after the finger that's is lowered. Example: 9 x 7, you put your 7th finger down. Before that 7th finger there are 6 other fingers and after that 7th finger there are 3....combinne them and you get the answer: 63. It works for all from 9x1 all the way to 9x10
I went through school with undiagnosed ADHD and found a lot of the ways I was taught, even basic things likes times tables or 24 hour clock, just didn't click in my brain. Now into my 20s, this has absolutely revolutionised how I do my trickier times tables!
I'm gobsmacked!! I'm 51 years young, with an 11 year old son who entered 6th grade this year, and when I tell you I struggled in math, I mean I'm lucky I graduated high school. So now here I am, trying to learn math all over again so I can help my son figure it out. What originally felt like punishment is now starting to feel like a gift! It's clicking for me and I can't even describe how excited I am to teach this to my son! He'll be equally amazed & hopefully excited that he'll have yet another tool to rely on when he needs it! Thank you for your channel! New fan = new subscriber!!
Thanks. I’m genuinely *struggling* with my times tables when I should have already learned them a couple years ago. It’s pretty embarrassing to be honest. This will definitely help a lot until I get them down properly. Thanks a ton!
As a kid in was taught the 9 times table using my hands, but in a different way. For instance, if unwanted 7 x 9, you would close down your 7th finger and count the fingers on the left and then the right giving you 63
Easiest way to do the 9's was to add 1 to the first digit and subtract 1 on second digit. 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90 then things got weird but at least it helps for those as a kid. When it was explained to me like this I found it to be so easy that I memorized them.
This is great! Starting in 5th grade I had a fear of multiplication but instead of memorizing the table I came up with a pretty interesting way to find the answer. Because I could tell time I became really good at the five multiplication tables. So I would use the 5s as my foundation For example 8 * 6 becomes 8 * 5 which is 40. Then I would add another 8. I did this all the way through high school. Lol
That seems like so much work, memorizing the multiplication table is so much easier. We were taught to do that and when I had kids every time we got in the car we would start with the ones and work up to the twelves. Today they’re in their 30,s now I can’t even imagine them using their fingers to count.
The only reason I am here watching this video is that memorizing is, in fact, not easier! I just cant seem to memorize the 6-8 tables and that is where most people fail as well.
Thank you. Now the trick is to get them learning them rote. With my kids, I wend in order 1, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 6, 9, 7, 8. We got an app that measured how fast and made the race of getting them in under 30 seconds... keep it light and fun. Good luck
I'm 16, I have autism and never got the help I needed as a young child in order to learn math properly! Your videos have been a lot of help! Thank you!
These are brilliant. I already had a set of hands made up for the nines trick, which I already knew. My scholars and I are going to be making up a lot of hands to work with.
At the age of 58, this is a really useful trick to learn. I struggled through my entire schooling with maths and have never learnt my times tables. OMG, I feel fantastic. You have made my year and it is only 00:48 on 01 January 2024 here in Bedfordshire, England. Is this a good omen for the rest of the year? Thanks so much xx
Best thing in the world for a severe dyslexic. 70 years ago an old man taught me this and many more math tricks with your fingers!. Still used it.👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Where have you been all my life lol it’s so amazing to feel liberated knowing that I can do simple math. All these years I’ve been making it hard on myself all these years I’ve been trying to find a pattern and I knew it was a pattern. But the way you broke that down simple English smooth talking understood every word you said I could even show someone how to do this that was an amazing job you did what a wonderful teacher wonderful person to even spread this knowledge thank you God bless you I feel free you just don’t understand how good I feel no one how to do simple math.!!!! 💕💯🥰❤️🙌🙏🏿 12•16•21
Mate, I am 29 years old, struggled with Maths all my life... you have taught me more Maths in 4 minutes that I did in Maths class in school for 14 years of my life. Thank you honestly, I'm adding this video to my favourites and will remember it, thank you truly. Edit, upon reading the comments I just realised a few numbers dont work such as 6x6 or 7x6 or 10x10 :(
They do work as example 7x6 u have 3 fingers in the circle so the first number is 3 next u have 3x4 fingers left so u do it and it does 12 so u would think it’s 312 right? No 12 is more than 10 so u add 1 to 3 and the result is 42 7x6=42 hope this helps :)
6x6 u have 2 fingers in the circle so 1+1= 2 then 4x4 = 16 16 is more than 10 so you add 1 to 2 and erase the 1 in the 16 you are left with 3and 6 so 6x6=36
Indeed, as soon as I learned multiplications, I wrote down the first 10 tables 10 times. It was a little tedious, but I still benefit nearly 30 years later since I memorized every answer
Thank you, I Lear ed this trick many years ago from a friend that was a Math Professor. Several times over several years I tried comming up with that trick but I have not been alble to, now I can put it to rest. Holly smokes, Thank you for the key !😁😊
Trying to apply this method for 7 x 6, for example. When you circle up you are getting 3 because you have 3 fingers caught up in the circle, and you have 3(left hand) x 4(right hand) =12 outside the circle. So the result according to the presented method will be 312. Instead, the real result is 42. It would work if I compact the first two digits of 312 and getting 3+1=4 but that would change the presented method.
The method does still work and it’s a bit like you said. 7 x 6 : you have 3 fingers then you have : 3 x 4 on the outside which is equal to 12 Since you can’t use 2 digit numbers you just carry over the 1 (like in addition) to get your answer
This would have been helpful as a child in school because my dad was in the Air Force and we traveled around a lot.. Each school I went to would have a different Curriculum and some things were taught to me twice and some things were not taught because they were already covered in the grade prior apparently, Or were to be taught later at some point when I inevitably would not be there. I did fairly well in other subjects - didn't miss a beat in English/Literature, Grammer or Spelling but my Maths always suffered. Never cared much for history, but later on learned that you don't get the real history until college level anyway.
I can relate in some way, at a young age I was being taught how the rest of the class was being taught math and I tried so hard to comprehend the steps but my brain for some reason couldn’t figure it out then years later I went to college took a math course and then some things weren’t taught because it was assumed that it was just basic things that everyone should know and not be freshened up …. ( after doing some research here and there on my own, I found out I had Dyscalculia) which made sense but at the same time made me so angry and upset because I feel like I missed out on so many opportunities to learn new ways to do math …. And til this day I still struggle with it …. & have always been so embarrassed about it , it’s a flaw I don’t like talking to much about …. I feel like I am not capable of doing anything if I don’t have math being my strongest…. 😢😔
EXCELLENT 👍 VIDEO. SO TRUE I'VE STRUGGLED WITH SIXES THROUGH NINES ON THE MULT.TAPLE. THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.I HAVE A BUSINESS DEGREE... AND AT TIMES IT WAS EMBARRASSING WHEN I TRIED FIGURING OUT SOME MATH PROBLEMS.THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIDEO.
Students in the Philippines have been using this method since elementary school. This technique has been utilized for many years, possibly even before I was born.
I have been really struggling with math, and due to the state testing and also I wish to succeed I need to learn times table and do other problems in subjects we’ve learned, thank you for this video I think this can help me a lot. Also I got that last problem right without you saying the answer! I think I get it!! :DD
My primary teacher used a giant jar of spangles sweeties and on our classroom back wall were huge colorful posters for each times table ..... We were allowed to use them when we did our sums and at the end of each day we all sat with our backs to the posters and she would choose three of us and we had to get 3 in a row correct without peeking at the charts to get a sweet and if we got one wrong , she'd say " turn and look at the table before sitting down " and even though I was disappointed I had no sweet , I remembered it next time she asked me !!!😉 Great motivation for us and we always ended the day with a particular times table to recite by rote ! She never showed favoritism and we all got a chance to shine and suck on a spangle .......course , this was in the 60's , but I have NEVER forgotten my times tables ....they stuck !!!!
I agree! I struggled to remember the times table above 6. When I couldn’t remember 7x8, for instance, I just did 5x8 + 2x8 = 56, adding the ones I could remember. I still do it this way sometimes. I feel that gives a child a better sense of what the multiplication actually means than finger tricks.
I taught both my children by rote by the time they were 6. They both knew their times tables perfectly up to 12x. There was a test: recite every single table flawlessly and then answer 10 quick fire questions without hesitation. It took my son 5 attempts and my daughter 6 attempts but they both succeeded and were rewarded. My son got a digital camera and my daughter something similar. Mostly what they got was a lifetime of instant answers.
I love that. I taught my kids similarly - easy, relaxed, timed, but with a trip down the shops each one we got through. And the same thing. They know them. I did teach this trick to them as an in between, but there was no way they could do them in the set time of they used the trick.
Wow Thank-you so much!! You're too kind in a world where teachers should know this and if they really taught their kids we wouldn't need to look up a video for our kids for math I stumbled across this so hopefully he can tell all his friends.😊That's amazing. Don't we all wish this existed.
This might be good for emergency for teaching kids, but it can be confusing be they don't have the same method for some of them, for example, the 6x6 and 6x7 and require a slight different method.
Thank you SO much I’m a student in year four and my times tables work is really starting to come and conviniantly this video let me learn ALL of the times tables I was struggling with and this is gonna help me so much please note this comment beacuse in this five minute video you have probably made a millions career 10x better so please not this and thank you.
I know that already my fourth year teacher taught us how to do it, but it's really helpful to teach other how it works its actually pretty easy u learn it so fast
Bro I swear it’s 1 in the morning and am 11 AND BRO AM HERE AT 1 AM TRYING TO LEARN MY TIME TABLES AFTER 1 YEAR OF NOT GOUNG TO SCHOOL I SWEAR THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH AM SO HAPPYYY!!!!
It's good to have lots of options, since everyone's minds work a little differently. Learners select the ones they find the most appealing and keep using them until they find even more efficient ways. I have my students reference a multiplication table to help them practice as they master the tables, but if they can learn this, they won't need to have the paper version handy.
There is a trick for 9 multiplication. Hold your hands out in front of you like in the depiction above. Starting from your left hand pinky finger, you count towards your right pinky finger 1-10. As an examle, 9×4 ... put the fourth finger down, and you'll notice you have 3 fingers up, your fourth is down, and 6 fingers up after that. 3 and 6. 36.
What a cute idea ❣ I'm heading on for sixty years of age. I was actually pretty good in math, but I still think this is very, very helpful for youngsters who just start off in school. One thing though. When you want to do 6 x 6, or 6x7 you have to do it differently, because only placing the two thumbs against each other, it results in 2 while leaving 4 fingers on each side 'open'. So if you only write the 2 then the 4 x 4 = 16 needs to be added to the 20, so to come-up with 36. Like-wise with 7 x 6, where you are only left with 3 fingers for counting. The remaining fingers are 3 x 4 = 12 while this also needs to be added to the 30, so to come-up with the correct result of 42.
I remember being a kid, primer 1, sitting on the floor, rote learning (but not really) 'how boring' 'never going to use in real life' - somewhat true - (lot of excel, lot of data analysis in my work life) - also those 6, 7 & 8 tripped me up (more playing 'games' than work stuff) - this really helps - thank you
Sir i really need your help in calculating divisions for decimals with big numbers. Often times in chemistry, there's always division where up to 3 or 4 decimals are present like 30.4607. Where four options have correct answer with decimal present. How do i divide quickly including the decimals.
This might work, but it's way too slow. Spend a few minutes to learn your tables. Then, every now and then go over them to keep them fresh in your mind. You'll have the answer instantly.
Or you can just memorize it 😁 I still remember my times tables 30 years later; “muscle memory,” by heart. It sort of rhymes to me, when I say the two numbers to multiply together. The answer is instant.
I was taught a different yet easier way for 9s. If say 9x6, you'd hold your hands out like in the video, close your 6th finger. So you'll have 5 fingers on the left side of your closed finger and 4 fingers on the right side making it 5 and 4 so 6x9=54 If maybe say 9x8, you'd close your 8th finger and do the exact same thing. 7 on the left, 2 on the right so 9x8=72. Eventually you'll find yourself just holding your hands out, glance at it and know the answer right away.
Oh my gosh! I am today 's year old and learning this trick! 😂😂😂 I am 37 years old and came here looking for some help to teach my children. Thanks so much.
OMG. I wish someone taught me this trick when I was a kid. This would have helped me a lot. But I guess I could teach this trick to my kids and students. Thank you so much
I feel like it would've saved so much time in my life, I'm learning this technique at 18 and teaching my little sister cause other methods are already in my mind
absalutly brilliant. I will definatly be playing a game with my grandkids with this method. They dont even show how to use analog clocks to tell the time at school. Even though they all have one hanging in each classroom. We are teaching them ourselves. They only go to the 10x tabke too. But we have shown how easy the 11 is. Im dislexic and my grandkids help me. Never laughing at Nansz funny words. But maths was always easy for me. But for some reason i could never remember my times table. I could look at a calculation and give the answer. But not show how i got there. We are all made differently and thats a good thing. Thenk you so much for this. Just had a little momment of fun trying your trick out..
My teacher in elementary school taught us our timetables by using a song to remember them. Kind of like your ABCs using twinkle twinkle little star. We would use the song "she'll be coming around the mountain" while saying our 8 times tables to the beat. People can remember lyrics, so if you turn knowledge into a song you'll never forget 😉.
This would be also great as a challenge for the children who've already memorised the times tables to encourage further thinking - proving a rule, being systematic etc
Wish I'd known this in elementary school in the 60's. Could've taken piano for a year and loved it a lot more. Why don't they teach these tricks in school?
🤯 😮 I’m 40 years old and this is AMAZING! I wish I had known about this when I was kid because learning times tables sucked! LOVE THIS!!!!!
Why are u watching this video 😭 i would never ever search for tables when I grow up i hate them
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My dad taught me this at a young age and I used to feel like I was cheating in elementary math quizzes but it helped alot!
Still... learn those tables!
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In my day, using your fingers would get you smacked by the teacher. Memory waa the means to learn 1-10, ranges. I'm late 80's, DC public school educated.
@@tecmath what if u use this one time and u don’t-have enough finger to do the finger trick lol
I've always had issues remembering my 6 - 8 times tables for the longest time, even into adulthood which has embarrassing! been following your channel for a while now and this is just what i needed to really be comfortable with working them out on the fly, thank you for showing us this one, genuinely great trick!
Me too!
Me three 👍 51 on Friday, and I’ve only just found an easy way to work them out,
Happy Birthday Me Three! Me too is 58.
Not true what they say… you Can teach an old dog new tricks !🤣
@@Notyou.111 Me Four 51 LMAO!! this has helped me a lot as well but I need an example of 6x6 or 6x7 lol
You are not alone😟
I like this but I think the explanation can be improved slightly for the harder cases of 6x6, 6x7, and 7x6 in which you get a product of non-bunched fingers equaling a value greater than 9. If you do 6x6, you have 2 bunched fingers (which would be 2 in the tens place or 20) and then 4 unbunched on each hand. 4x4 is 16, which you can’t simply put in the ones place, but must add 20 and 16 to get 36.
Yep ur right I agree
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yess honestly i was confused because when i did the first step to 6x6, which is to put your two thumbs togetter, i was like wait its atleast 20? no it cant be wait let me check again and in the end i was still confused (somehow adding the 20 and 16 was not in my mind at that moment lol)
I just tried this trick with the missus. She said 6×7..... and I looked like a moron.😢
6x7 leaves 3 bunched fingers (30) and 4x3=12. Add the 12 to 30. Seems to work for me
Where were you when I was in 3rd -4th Grade in the 70’s! ? What a great tool for people having trouble with this.
Someone in a different group linked this wondering why this is true. Took me about 10 minutes, but figured out why, if anyone's interested.
Any number 10 or less, can be rewritten as 10 minus that number. So for example 6 = 10-4.
So let's take 2 numbers, say 7 and 9 and rewrite 7 * 9 as (10-3)(10-1). Distributing, we get 100-30-10+3. The 100 represents all fingers, the 30 and 10 that we 'take away' are 3 and 1 fingers that are not grouped together on the left and right hands respectively, leaving just 6 fingers together in the middle, ie. 60. And the 3 and 1 which are not together in the middle are the two digits that are multiplied together, which are added to the 60, giving us our 63.
If anyone understands this explanation, then I doubt they’ll need this multiplication trick. 😛
@@cajandjas let's do an algebra equation to figure out basic multiplication 😂😂
Seriously though, this was a good explanation for anyone wondering why the trick works. I think OP was just trying to help curious minds
Sounds easier just to memorize than remember all those incidentals
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Marvelous! I’m 36 and have never learned this trick. I knew a finger trick with the 9X. It’s a little different, but works every time. Thank you!!
It is from Vedic Math, the ancient Indian religious arithematic.
So cool‼️ I am 61 yrs. old & I have never heard of this! Even at my age , I do sometimes struggle with these times tables, so this is very handy for me. Thank you very much for this informative video. I’ve subbed and am excited to see what other things I can learn on this channel❗️ ❤️fromOregon🇺🇸
This is AMAZING! I have struggled for years and found other less- quick ways to do multiplication. Thank you for sharing! I’m going to share with my friends with kiddos- OR adults like myself.
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You needed to find a way to use your fingers in order to do simple multiplication? Lol
As an older person I greatly appreciate this free method God Bless you and your channel 😊❤🎉
There is a very simple trick on the fingers for the 9x table up to 10. Hold fingers out same as in the video (although my thumbs always tend to be on the outside as I look at my palms, but it doesn't matter). Example: 4x9 .. Count from left to right and twitch each finger as you go, then bend the 4th finger. How many fingers left of that? =3. How many fingers right of that bent finger = 6. Answer =36. I always teach this to young kids😁
This is what I taught my kids too!
Hmm.. i kinda have a problem to understand that :D
how would it work with 5x5 and 9x1 for example?
I mean 4x9 did worked great but other combinations?
@@jinzala 5x5 wouldn't work because this is for the 9 times table from 1 to 10. Being the 9 times table 9x1 is better thought of as 1x9. As before, look at the palms of your hands with fingers played out. 1x9: count one digit (finger) in from the left (your left thumb). Left of that (the tens) is nothing, which equals zero. Right of the left thumb are 9 fingers, which equals 9. The answer is 09, or 9. Same if you did 10x9, always starting from the left you'd count all the way from left thumb (1) to right thumb (10), 9 digits to the left of it plus zero fingers to the right =90. Remember, remaining digits to the left of the bent finger are the tens, to the right they are the ones, nothing =zero. Another magical thing about the number nine is that any number where the individual numbers add up to 9, or a multiple of nine, will always be divisible by 9 exactly with no remainder, which is why 10 fingers with one bent finger for the multiplier works. As an example; you know the number 2,111,112 is divisible exactly by 9 with no remainder because the individual numbers all add up to 9 or a multiple of 9. Nine is a great number.
@@keithclunk3125 Aaaaah I see. My english isn't that good, that's why I missed the point that it works for the 9. Thank you :)
That's how I learned...as an adult. I wish I'd known it in school😔 When my son showed me, I was 🤯
There's a real easy way to remember your 9 times.
For example.
9x2= 18
9x3= 27
As you can see the first number in each answer is one number lower than what it's being times by.
And then the 2 numbers in the answer will always add up to 9.
Some more examples.
9x3= 27 see that the first number in the answer 2 is one number lower than 3.
And then the second number in the answer 7 makes it add up to 9.
9x4= 36
9x5= 45
And so on.
Easy peasy....
Wow, thanks. 😀😀😀😀😀
I figured something.
The 2nd digit answer is always the DIFFERENCE of 10 and the number multiplied by.
In the answer 27 for example, 3 minus 10 is 7.
Even easier for your 9s only: put the finger down that you're multiplying by and the answer is the fingers that are before and after the finger that's is lowered.
Example: 9 x 7, you put your 7th finger down. Before that 7th finger there are 6 other fingers and after that 7th finger there are 3....combinne them and you get the answer: 63. It works for all from 9x1 all the way to 9x10
You have to use your fingers.
How is that easier.
Ohhhhhhhhh !!!
I went through school with undiagnosed ADHD and found a lot of the ways I was taught, even basic things likes times tables or 24 hour clock, just didn't click in my brain. Now into my 20s, this has absolutely revolutionised how I do my trickier times tables!
I'm gobsmacked!! I'm 51 years young, with an 11 year old son who entered 6th grade this year, and when I tell you I struggled in math, I mean I'm lucky I graduated high school. So now here I am, trying to learn math all over again so I can help my son figure it out. What originally felt like punishment is now starting to feel like a gift! It's clicking for me and I can't even describe how excited I am to teach this to my son! He'll be equally amazed & hopefully excited that he'll have yet another tool to rely on when he needs it! Thank you for your channel! New fan = new subscriber!!
Thanks mate. And 51 is very young!
Good luck with it all.
Thanks. I’m genuinely *struggling* with my times tables when I should have already learned them a couple years ago. It’s pretty embarrassing to be honest. This will definitely help a lot until I get them down properly. Thanks a ton!
Me too
As a kid in was taught the 9 times table using my hands, but in a different way. For instance, if unwanted 7 x 9, you would close down your 7th finger and count the fingers on the left and then the right giving you 63
So good too 🤗 I did not know.
Easiest way to do the 9's was to add 1 to the first digit and subtract 1 on second digit.
9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90 then things got weird but at least it helps for those as a kid. When it was explained to me like this I found it to be so easy that I memorized them.
I solved with different numbers and I was like-😮😲😲.
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This is great! Starting in 5th grade I had a fear of multiplication but instead of memorizing the table I came up with a pretty interesting way to find the answer. Because I could tell time I became really good at the five multiplication tables. So I would use the 5s as my foundation For example 8 * 6 becomes 8 * 5 which is 40. Then I would add another 8. I did this all the way through high school. Lol
Yep, I would get as close as possible by using the 5. And then add to that.
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Me too😊
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6×7?
This is awesome. I have a child that struggles with multiplication problem. This looks like a good idea. Thanks for sharing this with me.🙂
That seems like so much work, memorizing the multiplication table is so much easier. We were taught to do that and when I had kids every time we got in the car we would start with the ones and work up to the twelves. Today they’re in their 30,s now I can’t even imagine them using their fingers to count.
The only reason I am here watching this video is that memorizing is, in fact, not easier! I just cant seem to memorize the 6-8 tables and that is where most people fail as well.
@@Miiidge I didn’t know that was a problem for people , I wonder why it’s those two.
That is very helpful! My kids love multiplying now...thank you so much!😊
Thank you.
Now the trick is to get them learning them rote.
With my kids, I wend in order 1, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 6, 9, 7, 8.
We got an app that measured how fast and made the race of getting them in under 30 seconds... keep it light and fun.
Good luck
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What's rote?
I'm 16, I have autism and never got the help I needed as a young child in order to learn math properly! Your videos have been a lot of help! Thank you!
These are brilliant. I already had a set of hands made up for the nines trick, which I already knew. My scholars and I are going to be making up a lot of hands to work with.
At the age of 58, this is a really useful trick to learn. I struggled through my entire schooling with maths and have never learnt my times tables. OMG, I feel fantastic. You have made my year and it is only 00:48 on 01 January 2024 here in Bedfordshire, England. Is this a good omen for the rest of the year? Thanks so much xx
I saw this method in the movie "Stand and Deliver" and always wondered how it fully worked. Thanks for posting.
Best thing in the world for a severe dyslexic. 70 years ago an old man taught me this and many more math tricks with your fingers!. Still used it.👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Wow, I wish i would have seen this way back in the day. This is actually increible I can not believe this omg. Bless your soul❤❤
Amaaaaaazing. I learnt mine off by heart as a kid but my kids are struggling. This is great. Thankyou so much.
Where have you been all my life lol it’s so amazing to feel liberated knowing that I can do simple math. All these years I’ve been making it hard on myself all these years I’ve been trying to find a pattern and I knew it was a pattern. But the way you broke that down simple English smooth talking understood every word you said I could even show someone how to do this that was an amazing job you did what a wonderful teacher wonderful person to even spread this knowledge thank you God bless you I feel free you just don’t understand how good I feel no one how to do simple math.!!!! 💕💯🥰❤️🙌🙏🏿 12•16•21
Mate, I am 29 years old, struggled with Maths all my life... you have taught me more Maths in 4 minutes that I did in Maths class in school for 14 years of my life. Thank you honestly, I'm adding this video to my favourites and will remember it, thank you truly. Edit, upon reading the comments I just realised a few numbers dont work such as 6x6 or 7x6 or 10x10 :(
They do work as example 7x6 u have 3 fingers in the circle so the first number is 3 next u have 3x4 fingers left so u do it and it does 12 so u would think it’s 312 right? No 12 is more than 10 so u add 1 to 3 and the result is 42 7x6=42 hope this helps :)
6x6 u have 2 fingers in the circle so 1+1= 2 then 4x4 = 16 16 is more than 10 so you add 1 to 2 and erase the 1 in the 16 you are left with 3and 6 so 6x6=36
That is very helpful,,,, wish i taught this to my brother when he first learned multiplication
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Hey,you nailed it .i don't have words🎉 always struggled in tables but now i feel so good and confident 😄
Keep it up
That's a nice trick, I'll be practicing that one. Thank you!
Wow!! Never heard of this. Amazing!! Gonna share this with people that really struggle with times tables. Awesome!! 😃
Nice trick! Memorization is easier as you've already mentioned but this ensures you're remembering correctly!
Indeed, as soon as I learned multiplications, I wrote down the first 10 tables 10 times. It was a little tedious, but I still benefit nearly 30 years later since I memorized every answer
Thank you, I Lear ed this trick many years ago from a friend that was a Math Professor. Several times over several years I tried comming up with that trick but I have not been alble to, now I can put it to rest. Holly smokes, Thank you for the key !😁😊
Trying to apply this method for 7 x 6, for example. When you circle up you are getting 3 because you have 3 fingers caught up in the circle, and you have 3(left hand) x 4(right hand) =12 outside the circle. So the result according to the presented method will be 312. Instead, the real result is 42. It would work if I compact the first two digits of 312 and getting 3+1=4 but that would change the presented method.
@Practical skills thanks
Yea I wrote a similar comment. 7x6 first number is 3, 6x6 you get a 2 for the first number. This doesn't work for everything.
The method does still work and it’s a bit like you said.
7 x 6 : you have 3 fingers then you have : 3 x 4 on the outside which is equal to 12
Since you can’t use 2 digit numbers you just carry over the 1 (like in addition) to get your answer
its like 30 and 12 add them together
Carry the 1
BRILLIANT !!
as someone who is number Dyslexic this is FANTASTIC !!
Wish they taught this in school !!
Gonna DEFINITELY save this !!
This would have been helpful as a child in school because my dad was in the Air Force and we traveled around a lot.. Each school I went to would have a different Curriculum and some things were taught to me twice and some things were not taught because they were already covered in the grade prior apparently, Or were to be taught later at some point when I inevitably would not be there. I did fairly well in other subjects - didn't miss a beat in English/Literature, Grammer or Spelling but my Maths always suffered. Never cared much for history, but later on learned that you don't get the real history until college level anyway.
I can relate in some way, at a young age I was being taught how the rest of the class was being taught math and I tried so hard to comprehend the steps but my brain for some reason couldn’t figure it out then years later I went to college took a math course and then some things weren’t taught because it was assumed that it was just basic things that everyone should know and not be freshened up …. ( after doing some research here and there on my own, I found out I had Dyscalculia) which made sense but at the same time made me so angry and upset because I feel like I missed out on so many opportunities to learn new ways to do math …. And til this day I still struggle with it …. & have always been so embarrassed about it , it’s a flaw I don’t like talking to much about …. I feel like I am not capable of doing anything if I don’t have math being my strongest…. 😢😔
EXCELLENT 👍 VIDEO. SO TRUE I'VE STRUGGLED WITH SIXES THROUGH NINES ON THE MULT.TAPLE. THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.I HAVE A BUSINESS DEGREE... AND AT TIMES IT WAS EMBARRASSING WHEN I TRIED FIGURING OUT SOME MATH PROBLEMS.THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIDEO.
This trick can be easily proven, but I really enjoy how you figure it out and turn it to a learning tip for kids
This is amazing and my evening has now been improved by 72%.
You really helped my a lot with my multiplication, I wanted to learn multiplying numbers faster. Thank you so much.
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Students in the Philippines have been using this method since elementary school. This technique has been utilized for many years, possibly even before I was born.
I have been really struggling with math, and due to the state testing and also I wish to succeed I need to learn times table and do other problems in subjects we’ve learned, thank you for this video I think this can help me a lot. Also I got that last problem right without you saying the answer! I think I get it!! :DD
I wish I had had a maths teacher like you when I was a child. I’m 70 now and still trying
My primary teacher used a giant jar of spangles sweeties and on our classroom back wall were huge colorful posters for each times table .....
We were allowed to use them when we did our sums and at the end of each day we all sat with our backs to the posters and she would choose three of us and we had to get 3 in a row correct without peeking at the charts to get a sweet and if we got one wrong , she'd say " turn and look at the table before sitting down " and even though I was disappointed I had no sweet , I remembered it next time she asked me !!!😉
Great motivation for us and we always ended the day with a particular times table to recite by rote !
She never showed favoritism and we all got a chance to shine and suck on a spangle .......course , this was in the 60's , but I have NEVER forgotten my times tables ....they stuck !!!!
That is awesome.
Thank you for sharing that lovely story!
This is a clever trick but I think harder to remember than the tables themselves.
I agree! I struggled to remember the times table above 6. When I couldn’t remember 7x8, for instance, I just did 5x8 + 2x8 = 56, adding the ones I could remember. I still do it this way sometimes. I feel that gives a child a better sense of what the multiplication actually means than finger tricks.
There is a trick for the 9’s but I didn’t know about the 6, 7 & 8. Thanks, that’s awesome
I learned this at primary school in the 1970s, my kids & grandkids know how to use this method too.😊
Thank you so much. I can only multiply now when I am 62 years old. Why didn't anyone tell me. I always failed my maths in school.
I taught both my children by rote by the time they were 6. They both knew their times tables perfectly up to 12x.
There was a test: recite every single table flawlessly and then answer 10 quick fire questions without hesitation. It took my son 5 attempts and my daughter 6 attempts but they both succeeded and were rewarded. My son got a digital camera and my daughter something similar.
Mostly what they got was a lifetime of instant answers.
I love that.
I taught my kids similarly - easy, relaxed, timed, but with a trip down the shops each one we got through.
And the same thing. They know them.
I did teach this trick to them as an in between, but there was no way they could do them in the set time of they used the trick.
Oh my gosh I'm sooooo happy! I can't stop smiling!!!! Thank you sooooooooo much!!!!!!!!! This just changes so much!^-^
This is way harder than just multiplying the numbers..
Wow Thank-you so much!! You're too kind in a world where teachers should know this and if they really taught their kids we wouldn't need to look up a video for our kids for math I stumbled across this so hopefully he can tell all his friends.😊That's amazing. Don't we all wish this existed.
This might be good for emergency for teaching kids, but it can be confusing be they don't have the same method for some of them, for example, the 6x6 and 6x7 and require a slight different method.
Wow!!! But why?
Sh8 your right, now i have a different problem🥲
Can you teach me how?
Thank you SO much I’m a student in year four and my times tables work is really starting to come and conviniantly this video let me learn ALL of the times tables I was struggling with and this is gonna help me so much please note this comment beacuse in this five minute video you have probably made a millions career 10x better so please not this and thank you.
I know that already my fourth year teacher taught us how to do it, but it's really helpful to teach other how it works its actually pretty easy u learn it so fast
Thank you for your comment Ella. Glad you know it.
Bro, I'm 48 years old, and you have totally made my day! 🤣 THANK YOU!!!
(I'm reviewing simple math for a career change, and this helped a lot)
I have never needed tricks to do multiplication of two numbers, especially between 6 and 10, but this is very cool 👍
Bro I swear it’s 1 in the morning and am 11 AND BRO AM HERE AT 1 AM TRYING TO LEARN MY TIME TABLES AFTER 1 YEAR OF NOT GOUNG TO SCHOOL I SWEAR THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH AM SO HAPPYYY!!!!
I found that very complicated, easier to learn the tables
Cool! Learn those times tables anyway!
It's good to have lots of options, since everyone's minds work a little differently. Learners select the ones they find the most appealing and keep using them until they find even more efficient ways. I have my students reference a multiplication table to help them practice as they master the tables, but if they can learn this, they won't need to have the paper version handy.
this trick is also very helpful
There is a trick for 9 multiplication. Hold your hands out in front of you like in the depiction above. Starting from your left hand pinky finger, you count towards your right pinky finger 1-10. As an examle, 9×4 ... put the fourth finger down, and you'll notice you have 3 fingers up, your fourth is down, and 6 fingers up after that. 3 and 6. 36.
This method has helped me A LOT lol
👌 awesome
What a cute idea ❣
I'm heading on for sixty years of age.
I was actually pretty good in math, but I still think this is very, very helpful for youngsters who just start off in school.
One thing though. When you want to do 6 x 6, or 6x7 you have to do it differently, because only placing the two thumbs against each other, it results in 2 while leaving 4 fingers on each side 'open'.
So if you only write the 2 then the 4 x 4 = 16 needs to be added to the 20, so to come-up with 36. Like-wise with 7 x 6, where you are only left with 3 fingers for counting.
The remaining fingers are 3 x 4 = 12 while this also needs to be added to the 30, so to come-up with the correct result of 42.
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I remember being a kid, primer 1, sitting on the floor, rote learning (but not really) 'how boring' 'never going to use in real life' - somewhat true - (lot of excel, lot of data analysis in my work life) - also those 6, 7 & 8 tripped me up (more playing 'games' than work stuff) - this really helps - thank you
How about 6 x 6😮
Omg I’m 1st
It's 36
7 x 8 is easy. The answer is 56. It's 56 7 8
Fleur - I had never noticed that!
That is up there with when I realised July, August, September, October, November spell JASON...
What's 8×7 then?
@@billythekid9821 56 by using finger math
@@billythekid9821 Easy. 65. ;)
@@bujin1977 Nice
I am a teacher and I knew the “handy trick” for the 9’s, but this is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Sir i really need your help in calculating divisions for decimals with big numbers. Often times in chemistry, there's always division where up to 3 or 4 decimals are present like 30.4607. Where four options have correct answer with decimal present. How do i divide quickly including the decimals.
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Wow! That’s amazing. What I did before was memorize the multiplication table
Why the hell didn't I learnd that at lower grades.
Omg man thx this is best for exams because it take less time
Learn those times tables!
This might work, but it's way too slow. Spend a few minutes to learn your tables. Then, every now and then go over them to keep them fresh in your mind. You'll have the answer instantly.
I did say - learn those times tables long term!
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Or you can just memorize it 😁
I still remember my times tables 30 years later; “muscle memory,” by heart.
It sort of rhymes to me, when I say the two numbers to multiply together. The answer is instant.
doesnt work for 6 times 7
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It’s 42
I was taught a different yet easier way for 9s.
If say 9x6, you'd hold your hands out like in the video, close your 6th finger. So you'll have 5 fingers on the left side of your closed finger and 4 fingers on the right side making it 5 and 4 so 6x9=54
If maybe say 9x8, you'd close your 8th finger and do the exact same thing. 7 on the left, 2 on the right so 9x8=72. Eventually you'll find yourself just holding your hands out, glance at it and know the answer right away.
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Tattoo it, what...🤣🤣🤣
Oh my gosh! I am today 's year old and learning this trick! 😂😂😂 I am 37 years old and came here looking for some help to teach my children. Thanks so much.
OMG. I wish someone taught me this trick when I was a kid. This would have helped me a lot.
But I guess I could teach this trick to my kids and students.
Thank you so much
You just cleared up 45 years of confusion in my head.
Thank you.
Tysm dawg i have a math test coming up and i couldnt remember my times tables like at all-😅 So now it will be pretty easier. Im subbing
This a very old trick that has been passed down generations..it really works and helps to memorize the multiplication table.. i taught my son the same
I feel like it would've saved so much time in my life, I'm learning this technique at 18 and teaching my little sister cause other methods are already in my mind
I needed this !!! This is so helpful ! I wish I had this during my exams. 👏👏
Thank for this trick. I intend to show this to my grand daughter. It is so easy!
absalutly brilliant. I will definatly be playing a game with my grandkids with this method. They dont even show how to use analog clocks to tell the time at school. Even though they all have one hanging in each classroom. We are teaching them ourselves. They only go to the 10x tabke too. But we have shown how easy the 11 is. Im dislexic and my grandkids help me. Never laughing at Nansz funny words. But maths was always easy for me. But for some reason i could never remember my times table. I could look at a calculation and give the answer. But not show how i got there. We are all made differently and thats a good thing. Thenk you so much for this. Just had a little momment of fun trying your trick out..
My teacher in elementary school taught us our timetables by using a song to remember them. Kind of like your ABCs using twinkle twinkle little star. We would use the song "she'll be coming around the mountain" while saying our 8 times tables to the beat. People can remember lyrics, so if you turn knowledge into a song you'll never forget 😉.
Thanks for much for uploading this. I've shown my maths tutor and she's uploaded it to the college resource page!
Omg thank you so much this was great. I’ve never known my times rabies and feel empowered with this.
This would be also great as a challenge for the children who've already memorised the times tables to encourage further thinking - proving a rule, being systematic etc
You are no joke a genius!
Wish I'd known this in elementary school in the 60's. Could've taken piano for a year and loved it a lot more. Why don't they teach these tricks in school?
I met a horse from the future. It travelled in a time stable.
😂 this is funny. 😂
Wow now I can show this maths tec to my friends Thanks man, glad i watched this video!
It is magic, what a clever man, thank you
Thanks for helping me with this easy multiplication
Outstanding trick
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