Times Table Trick - Learn your times tables instantly!
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- How to learn times tables - use your hands!
This easy math trick allows you to quickly learn the harder questions on the sixes, sevens, eights, nines and tens.
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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’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
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
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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This is way harder than just multiplying the numbers..
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
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😟
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 !!!
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 🤯
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.
Where were you when I was in 3rd -4th Grade in the 70’s! ? What a great tool for people having trouble with this.
Is 6x6 and 6x7 not viable with this?
I solved with different numbers and I was like-😮😲😲.
Your content is really great , I like your work!❤️
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.
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🇺🇸
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.
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
@@tecmath
What's rote?
That's a nice trick, I'll be practicing that one. Thank you!
Can you imagine walking around with numbers tattooed on your fingers?!!🤣🤣
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?
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.
As an older person I greatly appreciate this free method God Bless you and your channel 😊❤🎉
This is more complicated than just memorizing them lol
That is very helpful,,,, wish i taught this to my brother when he first learned multiplication
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Who struggles with,10 times tables?????
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😊
Yesss
6×7?
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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
So now I have to find a trick for: 6x6 and 6x7... because it doesn't work with these numbers 😁. Nice, thank you.
7*6 works: 30+12=42. But 6*6 does NOT work. Correct?
Great trick. BUT, can you explain how it works?
I know, but I'll not share.
Who the hell comes up with these things? That's amazing :-)
This is awesome. I have a child that struggles with multiplication problem. This looks like a good idea. Thanks for sharing this with me.🙂
You really helped my a lot with my multiplication, I wanted to learn multiplying numbers faster. Thank you so much.
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I saw this method in the movie "Stand and Deliver" and always wondered how it fully worked. Thanks for posting.
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
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…. 😢😔
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
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.
Why wasn’t math like this when I was growing up?
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❤❤
A much cooler and faster trick for 7 x 8 is this: 56=7x8, the numbers go in sequence, 5,6,7,8. For 6 x 8 we have the stupid rhyme, “six and eight went on a date, and came back as forty-eight.” Learning finger tricks is a disaster for students because they do the damned finger trick every time they are faced with the problem. If they are in the middle of multiplying decimals, or doing long division, the “finger tricks” detour them from the flow of the problem, they lose their place in the algorithm process and mistakes multiply faster than they can. I have been tutoring elementary school students with learning disabilities, struggling with math facts for 10 years, I have discovered that the method that works the best is rote learning of the facts, the same way that they learned the alphabet in kindergarten/first grade. We find five facts that they are struggling with, for instance 9 x 6, and I will have them write the fact, “9 x 6 = 54” five times across a sheet of notebook paper, and say the fact OUT LOUD while they are writing it, then they go on to the next fact, and do the same thing for all five facts. This process is repeated three times a day, taking a total of 10 minutes until they are proficient with the fact. We learn by seeing, by hearing, by saying, and by writing. By combining these four different learning processes the fact is leaned four times as fast. I demonstrate this to the students by holding up four fingers and ticking off the ways of learning, Then I demonstrate to them that each method by itself is as weak as a finger, but together they are “strong as a fist!” I also demonstrate using the alphabet, giving them the first three letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, and asking them to provide the next which they quickly provide as D. I show them that each separate math fact is an “A,B, C, D problem” and that the SOUND “56” follows the sound of “7 times 8” the same way the SOUND of D follows A,B,C.” This is why I stress SAYING the fact out loud as they write it. If your child is struggling, try this method, It has worked for dozens of the students that I have worked with.
Nice reply.
As I said at the start of the video, learning the number facts is essential - exactly as you said... to get the flow right!
I'd use the analogy like reading... we start with sounds as well as sight words (most common words)... and eventually complexity grows - but that memorisation is key - otherwise reading would consist of sounding out every word every time - and flow would become impossible!
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
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.
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!
Just gonna leave this here for my siblings
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
When I was 9 years old that I used my fingers in adding or subtracting. Even used my toes in my shoes and even my face. I just have a good memory in multiple times table when I learned at the same age.
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!
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?
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 harder than just learning your times tables from memory, my head just blew up 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
👌 awesome
This is a very cute little trick. Except for the fact that it kind of dumbs people down.
Why the hell didn't I learnd that at lower grades.
Thanks!!!! Hand math. I wish I knew this earlier. My discalculia is starting to to get cure. It’s show my teacher asholeness 😂
How about 6 x 6😮
Omg I’m 1st
Omg man thx this is best for exams because it take less time
Learn those times tables!
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.
9 times table has a slightly easier trick but this is easier since you only need 1 trick for multiple tables.
I learned this at primary school in the 1970s, my kids & grandkids know how to use this method too.😊
me who just memorized the whole thing
doesnt work for 6 times 7
ok😊
Yes
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.
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
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!!!!
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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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 the times table and remember that commutative property exists (e.g. 7x9 = 9x7 = 63).
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What about 6x6? You may want to explain that one, it's a bit different.
It just requires a slight adjustment in thinking. Think of it as 20 instead of 2_ for the grouping of the digits. Then add 16 (which you arrive with 4x4). You get 36.
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Wtf. Where was I when this trick was available... I'm 23 and I'm still struggling...
Tattoo it, what...🤣🤣🤣
How about 6x7 ? I tried multiples using the same method which came up with 3 fingers then I multiply the rest of my left and right finger which is 4x3 = 12 it can’t be 312.
I have never needed tricks to do multiplication of two numbers, especially between 6 and 10, but this is very cool 👍
It´s much easier to keep the table in memory. Your method, although innovative is exceedingly difficult.
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.
What if you are missing fingers due to a firework incidents (AKA) accident? 💣💥
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.
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.
This doesn't work for some equations though like 7x6 the first number you get is a 3, 6x6 the first number you get is a 2.
You should be able to figure out those equations in your head people
Not everyone's heads operate the same way. We have extremely intelligent people that can't speak .... We have blind people that love to read .... Everyone's different and that means people probably learn differently as well. I'm sure Yu know that
Excellent!why? I don’t get it. Any theory behind it? How did you find out about this trick?
This is from Vedic Math, religious Indian arithmatic and math.
I know its theory/mechanism/principle.
I can't seem to reconcile this with 6x6 (which equals 36), given that only two fingers touch.
Tysm I have math quizez and i had a time of 4 minutes and 24 seconds and as a grade i got a 75% and I was like wow thats bad so i watched this for help redid it and got 1 minute and 35 seconds and a 98% as a grade tysm!
Wow!! Never heard of this. Amazing!! Gonna share this with people that really struggle with times tables. Awesome!! 😃
This is amazing and my evening has now been improved by 72%.
I don’t understand, when I do 8x6 I get the right answer but if I do 6x8 I get the wrong one.
Thst ridiculously complex and time wasting
What about
6x6
6x7
You can not find the result with this method can you explain please
Yes, but won't it take absolute ages to do, isn't it east just to remember them. Also the trick for 8×8=64 is "I Ate and I Ate and I was Six on the Floor"
The way to remember 7×8 is - what come before 7 and 8? Oh it 5 and 6 (56).
Thanks for your comment.
As I said in the video at the start...people should still learn their times tables - like your sayings, they are a helpful inbetween step.
Altough would you still have to memorise the 5,3,2 and 4 times tables?
When I went to school, we just chanted it until it got drilled into our brains.
Doesn´t work... Bad trick. Try with 6x7 or 6x8...
Amazing. Good to know. But memorization is still better
RIP people with no hands
You still have
your toes 😊
oor you can : you have 10 fingertips = 10 answers
OMG, that's not more confusing right? LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!