Enjoy these photos and bring the 3 times tables to life- at home or on a whiteboard.

7 top tips to help your child learn the three times tables

☺ Use pebbles, dried beans or lego bricks and share lining up and counting e.g. two rows of eight. Having this practical experience is just brilliantly helpful for every learner. In this case you also get to see a really special bit of maths magic.

★ Pass it on ★ Discovery is always more magical- more memorable so start by asking "what can you see when you look at our arrangement (array) from the side" After a good pause, if needed, you could follow with "I can see eight rows of two". Talk about two lots of eight being the same as eight lots of two, 2x8=8x2. With this knowledge, which often gets missed, mastering e.g. the 2x, 10x, 3x, 4x and 5x tables before you come to the eight times table means that a child has a lot less new facts to memorise.

☺ Use doubles. If your child is unsure about one fact e.g 6x8 but, is confident that 3x8 is 24, use pebbles to secure a visual picture that 6x8 is double 3x8.

★ Pass it on ★ Developing this pattern say e.g. "If we know that 6x8 is 48 how can we figure out 12x8?"

☺ Use halving. This is particularly good if your child is confident that 10x8 is eighty. Again an arrangement of pebbles or a picture will help your child see that 5x8 is half of 10x8.

☺ Use the addition pattern. Discover with the help of the petal photos. Talk about e.g 6x8 is the same as 8+8+8+8+8+8 AND 7x8 is the same as 8+8+8+8+8+8+8 so if you already remember 6x8 is 48 , 48 and 8 more will give you the answer to 7x8 WOW.

☺ Use the subtraction pattern. Discover with the help of petal photos.

★ Pass it on ★ Ask e.g." How many less is 9x8 than 10x8?"

☺ Get lots of practise with powerful visual images and importantly no time pressure to trigger maths anxiety using Tilleys times tables online game