A five-minute multiplication warm-up

Pick a length: 5, 10, or 20 questions. Run the round. Look at what missed. Tomorrow, send the round at that table. That is the warm-up. It takes about five minutes, and it does the same job on a classroom rug or at the kitchen table before school.

The point is the miss. A warm-up that only asks facts the child already knows feels good and changes nothing. One that returns the missed fact and shows the adult which table it came from is practice.

Use it as the first thing after the bell while you take attendance. Students who finish early do not need a second round. Students who missed several facts in one table are your small group later, and you did not have to grade anything to find them.

Keep the clock off. Short rounds already keep the pace. A countdown on a fact a child has not learned yet teaches guessing.

Attach it to something that already happens: after breakfast, in the car line, before screen time. Five questions is enough on a rough morning. Twenty is for the day they ask for more.

If the same fact misses three days running, go back to the picture for that one fact. Eight rows of seven on paper, split into eight fives and eight twos. Then let the round ask it again.

FastyFacts is built as this round. You choose 5, 10, or 20 questions. Multiplication runs from 2×2 through 12×12, with division, addition, and subtraction as review. A missed fact comes back later. Facts a child already knows drop back. The fact rings afterward show which table is weak, down to one set like the 8s, so the next round can go there. It is free on iOS, works offline, and has no ads in practice rounds.