The 1 times table
The friendliest table there is: any number times 1 stays exactly the same.
Play the 1 times table
Every question uses the 1s. Pick a game, answer ten, and watch the 1s grow in your garden.
Owl Post
Thena’s owl has letters to deliver. Each door has a sum on it: pick the letter with the answer and light up the village.
0 of 12 in flower. Each right-first-time answer grows a plant a little.
The 1 times table chart
Say it out loud, then cover an answer and see if it comes back. Tap any answer to hide it, and tap again to check.
| 1 × 1 | = | one times one is 1 | |
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| 1 × 2 | = | one times two is 2 | |
| 1 × 3 | = | one times three is 3 | |
| 1 × 4 | = | one times four is 4 | |
| 1 × 5 | = | one times five is 5 | |
| 1 × 6 | = | one times six is 6 | |
| 1 × 7 | = | one times seven is 7 | |
| 1 × 8 | = | one times eight is 8 | |
| 1 × 9 | = | one times nine is 9 | |
| 1 × 10 | = | one times ten is 10 | |
| 1 × 11 | = | one times eleven is 11 | |
| 1 × 12 | = | one times twelve is 12 |
How to learn the 1 times table
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It stays the same
One group of 8 is 8. One group of 100 is 100. Multiplying by 1 never changes a number, so there is nothing to memorize.
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Turn it around
1 × 7 is one group of 7, and 7 × 1 is seven groups of 1. Both are 7, and the same is true for every fact in every table.
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Why it matters
Multiplying and dividing by 1 is in the multiplication tables check, and it’s the start of a big idea in math: a number that changes nothing, like adding 0.
The pattern in the 1s
The last digit of each answer, from 1 × 1 to 1 × 12. They count up, 1, 2, 3, just like counting, until 10 groups comes around to 0.
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When children learn it
In 3rd grade, alongside the rule that any number times 1 is itself. Common Core expects all the facts up to 9 × 9 from memory by the end of 3rd grade.
Every times table
Questions parents ask
How can my child learn the 1 times table?
Five minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday. Start with the facts they already know from other tables (turn 1 × 5 around and it’s 5 × 1), then learn one trick: any number times 1 is itself. Then play: answering from memory, again and again, is what makes facts stick, and a game makes them want to.
When do children learn the 1 times table?
In 3rd grade, alongside the rule that any number times 1 is itself. Common Core expects all the facts up to 9 × 9 from memory by the end of 3rd grade.
What is the hardest fact in the 1 times table?
None, really, but 1 × 0 = 0 and 0 × 1 = 0 catch children out: one group of nothing is still nothing.
Is the 1 times table game free?
Yes. Every game here is free, with no account, no ads and no timer. Progress is kept on this device only. Thena, the AI teacher who made them, has lessons for children that start with 3 free.
Stuck on the 1s?
Thena explains them on her board, out loud, the way your child’s school does, and answers every “why?”.
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