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3rd grade. Was pretty easy. Also helped I had nearly a mile walk to school (and back) with no distractions (didn't think I had even a Walkman yet) so I was able to practice whatever. Math was easiest because it was right or wrong and it was easy to pick 2 random numbers.

In the UK we also had a song thing for the first 12 times tables, but I was never good at rhythmic recall as a kid so I always had some issues with 7 and 8 times tables.

Was pretty good at all the rest by the start of Year 3, though.

I never learned it. We had specific tests just for them i 3rd grade and I just could never be bothered to actually learn them. I just did the calculations every time and even with the really short time limit I could get over 90% right. So I thought why bother.

I learned multiplication by flash cards in kindergarten and first grade, but I think they generally teach multiplication tables in third grade. I never really learned them because am very bad at memorizing. I just faked it since I could calculate it in my head fast enough (although I was always much slower than my classmates).

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I struggled learning them but that was in part due to me not wanting to learn them. I got by, barely. Currently, I'm pretty good with some of them but no expert.

I learned up through 12 x 12 in 2nd grade. Some of them were easier than others. I remember drilling with my grandfather for hours to memorize the ones I was having trouble with. The incentive was that if I learned them, he'd buy me a GameBoy game I wanted. I did in fact get the game when I managed to master multiplication—it was Mole Mania, a sokoban-style puzzle game with the gimmick that there is an underground layer you can move through that also has its own obstacles.

I memorized the easy stuff and would just add or subtract to get to the right answer (because multiplication is just repeated addition). So 6*7 is just 6*6+6=36+6=42. It was pretty easy for me because the multiplication table is choke-full of patterns like multiples of 2, 5, 9 and 10.

We stopped at ten and I've never learned them due to it being, in my opinion at the time, waste of time as you can always just count. They are pretty useful actually. 😅

Memorized in 6th grade. An optional goal in class to complete the “60 second sweep”. It only went up to 9, but we had to get in front of the class and do them all in 60 seconds.

Most I just know instantly since I need them for work from time to time and just memorising them is quicker than a calculator.

I think they start doing it in second grade but I'm not positive on that.

3rd grade, it was easier to do algebra because of it, then do arithmetic.

I for sure learned the 11 times tables first and best. Up to 10.

I was 8 years old when I learned the multiplication table and I honed it through repetition over the next couple years. Everyone in our class had a multiplication table taped to the upper left corner of our desks. I think it was optional. Not required. It was more of a fashion statement at the time, showing who had a "Trapper Keeper" because we'd cut that multiplication table out of the corner of one of the folders that the trapper keepers came with. So it was in style at the time in the mid 1980s. In idle moments I'd study it. It was fascinating as I began to notice the patterns and the magic of the math and it was fun to learn & memorize. Grateful to learn that in my youth because my brain would not be so pliable & spongelike these days.

I grew up watching Square One TV as a kid so it was drilled into me before I hit second grade.

Square One TV: Season One

We converted everything to and from base 60 (sexigesimal)

Never bothered to learn them. Learned to compute rather than memorize, based on numerical relationships. Ex: 73 * 13 = 75 * 13 - 2 * 13 = 975 - 26 = 949.