Mastering the multiplication tables is a big step for kids! Help your student nail down his times tables with this round-up of helpful strategies, cool shortcuts and practice pages.

Count by twos, fives or tens to reveal the animals hiding on the pages. Help your child see patterns between numbers up to 100 and higher. Skip counting builds a base for multiplication down the road.

Improve your pattern-recognition and estimation skills as you practice multiplication and division. Children use techniques like breaking down numbers and fast addition to arrive at the correct answer — and to understand the concepts behind the proc