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The 8 Times Table

Eight is doubling three times, so every fact in this table can be reached even when it will not be remembered.

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The whole 8 times table

  1. 8 ร— 1=8
  2. 8 ร— 2=16
  3. 8 ร— 3=24
  4. 8 ร— 4=32
  5. 8 ร— 5=40
  6. 8 ร— 6=48
  7. 8 ร— 7=56
  8. 8 ร— 8=64
  9. 8 ร— 9=72
  10. 8 ร— 10=80

Double three times

8 ร— 6: six is twelve, twelve is twenty-four, twenty-four is forty-eight. It is slower than knowing the answer and that is fine โ€” the point is that a child is never stuck. A child with a route never has to guess, and guessing is what turns a hard table into a fear of maths.

Every answer is even, and more than even

All ten answers in this table can be halved three times and still land on a whole number. 56 halves to 28, to 14, to 7. That is not a party trick: it is the reason the doubling method works, and seeing it run backwards makes the forwards version stick.

What is left after the other tables

8 ร— 8 = 64 and 8 ร— 9 = 72. Everything else in this table has already appeared somewhere else, the other way round. Two new facts is a fair week's work.

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