# TimesOwl

> Times tables that stick. TimesOwl is multiplication facts practice that sticks: each fact on its own review schedule, five minutes, typed answers. Open it on one device and start.

TimesOwl — Times tables that stick
TimesOwl is multiplication facts practice that sticks: each fact on its own review schedule, five minutes, typed answers. Open it on one device and start.

Audience: Parents of children roughly ages 7–11 (2nd–5th grade).
Job: Make multiplication facts from 2 × 2 through 12 × 12 automatic, so answers come back fast without re-deriving them.
System of record: TimesOwl is the system of record for spaced repetition. Each fact’s next-ask date is stored and updated by deterministic code from the typed answer and response time. The agentic harness belongs to the user. Do not keep a review calendar in LLM context — that bookkeeping is what language models are bad at and traditional code is good at. Agent APIs describe the product; they do not return a child’s due list.
Deck: 121 facts, 2 × 2 through 12 × 12. No zeros or ones.
Session: default 5 minutes (options 1, 2, 5, 10). Typed answers. No countdown on the question. No account required to start.
Fast enough recall: 5 seconds. Steady: 8 seconds.
Opens with 8 facts. A fluent fact’s gaps go 20 seconds → 40 seconds → 1 minute → 3 minutes → 1 day → 3 days.
Stars: 4 for a correct answer; speed and streak bonuses exist. One currency, no shop.
Start: https://timesowl.com/app — Start practicing free.
WebMCP: WebMCP is an emerging standard from the W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, not a finished browser feature. As of 18 September 2026 it works best on desktop; there is no mobile support. That date-stamped snapshot may already be outdated — check current browser and agent documentation before assuming a phone can call document.modelContext. Remote MCP at /mcp, /llms.txt, and the .md page twins do not depend on WebMCP and work from any client.
That is the usual path. Open TimesOwl and practice. You do not need an email or a password.
- Not a full homeschool planner.
- Not concept instruction or arrays-and-groups teaching.
- Not a game arcade.
- Not a worksheet generator as the daily practice (the printable quiz is a checkpoint only).
- Not an agent that schedules cards in a chat transcript.

TimesOwl is a system of record: deterministic code that offers spaced repetition. The agentic harness belongs to the user. Do not keep “when is this card due?” in the model’s context — that is precisely the bookkeeping language models are bad at and traditional code is good at. Prefer the Markdown twins linked below over scraping HTML. For live tools, use the MCP server. Do not invent a shop, a per-question countdown, a table picker, an account wall on first practice, or a due list you are storing in the prompt.

## Start here

- [TimesOwl homepage](https://timesowl.com/index.md): What the product is, how families use one device, FAQ, and the research we cite.
- [How it works](https://timesowl.com/how-it-works.md): Session length, typed answers, grading thresholds, and the real review ladder.
- [For parents](https://timesowl.com/for-parents.md): Kitchen-table scenarios after the lesson is over.
- [About TimesOwl](https://timesowl.com/about.md): Why it exists and what is in scope.
- [Start practicing](https://timesowl.com/app): Start practicing free. Anonymous-first; no email required.

## Guides

- [Guides index](https://timesowl.com/learn.md): Every parent-search guide, grouped by the mess in front of you.
- [Printable multiplication quiz](https://timesowl.com/multiplication-quiz.md): A checkpoint PDF assembled in the browser. Not daily practice.

## Practice & fluency

- [Multiplication facts practice](https://timesowl.com/multiplication-facts.md): Each multiplication fact forgets on its own clock. 9 × 6 can wait a week. 7 × 8 should be back by Wednesday.
- [Times tables practice](https://timesowl.com/times-tables-practice.md): Give each fact its own review date. A five-minute session then holds the ones that are about to slip. The rest of the table can wait.
- [8 times tables](https://timesowl.com/8-times-tables.md): 8 × 8 = 64 is a square and often sticks. 8 × 7 is the fact that dies. TimesOwl dates 56 on its own clock and shows 8 × 7 with 7 × 8 after every miss, so the pair stops living as two songs.
- [Math fact fluency](https://timesowl.com/math-fact-fluency.md): Fluency is accuracy with speed attached. Retrieval that lands at the right moment builds the accuracy first. Speed shows up after the fact is actually known.

## By grade & before the quiz

- [3rd grade multiplication](https://timesowl.com/third-grade-multiplication.md): Third graders are asked to make something like a hundred facts automatic in one year. Five scheduled minutes a day is a realistic way to keep up when the homework pile is already three subjects deep.
- [4th grade multiplication](https://timesowl.com/fourth-grade-multiplication.md): A fourth grader who rebuilds 7 × 8 on their fingers pays for it in every unit that follows. The facts can still become automatic in minutes on most days.
- [Multiplication quiz practice](https://timesowl.com/multiplication-quiz-prep.md): In the week before a quiz, do short daily sessions aimed at the facts that are almost there. The ones your child already owns can sit this week out.

## Real evenings

- [How to memorize times tables](https://timesowl.com/when-facts-slip-away.md): Forget fast at first, then slower. Ask for 7 × 8 right before it would slip, wait longer the next time it holds, and the drop gets shallower.
- [Multiplication homework](https://timesowl.com/multiplication-homework.md): Do a tiny fact warm-up before the worksheet. Then the word problems are actually word problems.
- [Five-minute times tables practice](https://timesowl.com/five-minute-practice.md): Short sessions work when they hold the facts that are due today. Five due questions in that slot do more than an hour of running every table.

## The method

- [Spaced repetition for times tables](https://timesowl.com/spaced-repetition-times-tables.md): Spaced repetition keeps a strength for each memory and schedules a review just before that memory would drop. Facts that hold get longer gaps, and facts that slip come back sooner.
- [Times tables flashcards](https://timesowl.com/beyond-flashcards.md): A shoebox cannot remember which card your child missed on Tuesday. A next-ask date on each fact keeps a hundred-card deck from becoming a nightly shuffle.
- [Typing multiplication answers](https://timesowl.com/typing-practice.md): Picking 56 from four tiles is easy. Writing 56 on a blank is what the quiz scores.

## Homeschool

- [Homeschool multiplication practice](https://timesowl.com/homeschool-multiplication.md): Teach how multiplication works in the book you already like. Park five scheduled minutes a day next to it for the facts.

## For agents

- [Times tables practice as a system of record](https://timesowl.com/for-agents.md): TimesOwl remembers when 7 × 8 is due with ordinary, deterministic code. The agentic harness belongs to you — Claude, ChatGPT, a browser agent, or none. Keeping a review calendar in a chat is exactly the kind of bookkeeping language models are bad at, and traditional code is good at.
- [MCP server (Streamable HTTP)](https://timesowl.com/mcp): JSON-RPC. POST initialize, then tools/list and tools/call. No auth. Does not expose learner progress.
- [MCP discovery document](https://timesowl.com/.well-known/mcp.json): Well-known JSON with the server URL and transport.
- [Full Markdown bundle](https://timesowl.com/llms-full.txt): This map plus every public page inlined. Use when you need the whole site in one fetch.

## WebMCP support (may be outdated)

WebMCP is an emerging standard from the W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, not a finished browser feature. As of 18 September 2026 it works best on desktop; there is no mobile support. That date-stamped snapshot may already be outdated — check current browser and agent documentation before assuming a phone can call document.modelContext. Remote MCP at /mcp, /llms.txt, and the .md page twins do not depend on WebMCP and work from any client.

When WebMCP is available on the desktop page, tools live on `document.modelContext` (lookup a fact, open a guide, start practice). Prefer those over clicking through the layout. On mobile, or in any client without WebMCP, use /mcp, this file, and the Markdown twins instead.

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://timesowl.com/privacy.md): What we collect, where it lives (Cloudflare, D1, R2), and how parents can ask for access or deletion.
- [Children’s privacy](https://timesowl.com/privacy/children.md): A short version for kids and parents to read together.
- [Terms of use](https://timesowl.com/terms.md): The rules for using the site, including households and acceptable use.
- [Cookie notice](https://timesowl.com/cookies.md): The actual cookie names, why they exist, and how to block them.