Multiplication & Division
Multiplication is repeated addition made quick, and division is just multiplication in reverse. Know the tables by heart and every method after them, from the grid to long division, becomes bookkeeping rather than guesswork.
This path runs from doubling and the first tables all the way to long multiplication and division, in the order that builds. Start wherever it fits and work along the line.
The path
Each step is a short five-minute game. They start with doubling and the easy tables, layer in the rest, then move into the written methods that lean on them: short, then column, then long.
The foundation
Times-table recall is the single biggest predictor of how easily written multiplication and division go later. A child who knows 7 × 8 instantly can focus on the method; a child who counts up loses the thread every line.
Five minutes a day along this path builds that recall, then puts it to work. When these feel easy, the rest of the games by year are waiting.
Keep exploring
Each path takes one strand of maths and lays its games out in the order they build, the same way this one does.
From sharing a shape in half to converting freely between fractions, decimals and percentages.
Follow the path →
From number bonds to written column methods and, finally, subtracting past zero into negatives.
From counting to twenty all the way to reading, writing and rounding numbers in the ten millions.
From recognising coins and notes to adding amounts, solving problems and working out change.
From o'clock and half past to reading an analogue clock to the exact minute.