# 3rd grade multiplication when the tables show up in homework

> Open the 2s through 5s after snack for about five minutes.

Third grade is when times tables show up in homework and surprise quizzes. The facts arrive faster than most family evenings can absorb.

## What classrooms are aiming for

Most rooms work toward automatic recall, often through 10 × 10 and sometimes through 12, inside one school year. The pace looks reasonable until science and reading send work home on the same night as math, and every math line stalls on a slow fact.

6 × 7 is one line. A hundred of those lines show up in one year, faster than a weekly worksheet can hold them.

## If the tears start with the first problem

If the worksheet is barely out and your child is already tense, shrink the task. Stop at five minutes while 4 × 5 is still going in. A half hour that ends in tears teaches the wrong lesson.

TimesOwl starts with the 2s through 5s and adds new facts only when the current ones are holding.

## What TimesOwl does about it

TimesOwl covers 2 × 2 through 12 × 12. It opens with eight facts and only adds more once reviews are under control.

## Related

- [Multiplication facts practice](https://timesowl.com/multiplication-facts.md?v=plain)
- [8 times tables](https://timesowl.com/8-times-tables.md?v=plain)
- [4th grade multiplication](https://timesowl.com/fourth-grade-multiplication.md?v=plain)