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A common problem I still find with students that struggle in KS3 and KS4 is still that of a lack of

having committed number bonds to memory at an earlier stage.

This does not mean that teachers and others have not tried! I tried all sorts of strategies myself so know only too well.

Sometimes it is left to parents to oversee this important process.

A time consuming exercise but essential.

A search on GOOGLE for 'Learning Tables', in quotes, resulted in some 15 000 English hits so that must say something.

If I ask a student to tell me the 3 times table I often get 3,6,9,12 .....

A sequence, not an association of two numbers to produce a third, giving no inverse.

How can they divide, simplify fractions, factorise, solve equations ....?

I myself once had a block with seven eights till I thought of 5,6,7,8. Fifty six is seven eights.

Anyway, the second hit was Link to multiplication.com which you may find useful.

John