Teach the Facts with Pictures and Stories

Use the steps below as a guide to our online lessons and resources to help you and your students get the most out of our method. Click here to reference resources and activities linked to the Common Core Standards.


Step 1: Watch the Foundation Videos

If you or your students are new to the times table, have them watch these two videos first.

Each of the lessons on the website include a section called "Understanding the Basics", which will help your students understand underlying principles of multiplication.

  • Watch Repeated Addition on YouTube
  • Watch the Commutative Property on YouTube

Please note: All the stories, methods, and resources mentioned below are available in our best-selling book, Memorize in Minutes: The Times Table.


Step 2: Meet Our Number Pictures

Our system uses pictures (like the ones on the right) to remember numbers. More on why this works.

Two = Shoe
Three = Tree
Four = Door
Five = Hive
Six = Chick
Seven = Surfin
Eight = Skate
Nine = Sign

Step 3: Choose a Fact

The Learn section of this website teaches each equation from 0x0 to 9x9, and each lesson covers six steps:

  1. Learn with Pictures
  2. Review to Remember
  3. Understand the Basics
  4. Practice with Games
  5. Take a Quiz
  6. More Tips

Step 4: Learn, Review, and Practice

  1. Learn the equation by remembering the picture and story
  2. Review to Remember
  3. Review the story by playing a review game
  4. Practice by playing a fun game
Teaching Activities
Games to build fact fluency

Step 5: Take a Quiz, Check Your Progress

Our self-correcting quizzes make it super-simple to check student progress.


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Each lesson has a More Tips section with more useful tips and tricks. Beyond our lessons, we offer several free, downloadable resources:

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