Times Table Trick - Learn your times tables instantly!
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- How to learn times tables - use your hands!
This easy math trick allows you to quickly learn the harder questions on the sixes, sevens, eights, nines and tens.
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My dad taught me this at a young age and I used to feel like I was cheating in elementary math quizzes but it helped alot!
Still... learn those tables!
@@tecmath l hate you
@@elisya7813 😘
In my day, using your fingers would get you smacked by the teacher. Memory waa the means to learn 1-10, ranges. I'm late 80's, DC public school educated.
@@tecmath what if u use this one time and u don’t-have enough finger to do the finger trick lol
I learned my times tables in Grade school from Mrs. Haas. Every day she would enter the classroom calling out a series of times tables and waiting for the class to answer. She repeated this until we all had them memorized. I'm 65 years old now and though I've forgotten many things . . . the times tables are as fresh as ever!
Yep.
I'm a big fan of learning them... and as much as some teachers frown on it.. through memorisation (in part).
Why not? We do it with reading.
This is exactly how I learnt it some 40+ years ago.
🤯 😮 I’m 40 years old and this is AMAZING! I wish I had known about this when I was kid because learning times tables sucked! LOVE THIS!!!!!
Why are u watching this video 😭 i would never ever search for tables when I grow up i hate them
I've always had issues remembering my 6 - 8 times tables for the longest time, even into adulthood which has embarrassing! been following your channel for a while now and this is just what i needed to really be comfortable with working them out on the fly, thank you for showing us this one, genuinely great trick!
Me too!
Me three 👍 51 on Friday, and I’ve only just found an easy way to work them out,
Happy Birthday Me Three! Me too is 58.
Not true what they say… you Can teach an old dog new tricks !🤣
@@Notyou.111 Me Four 51 LMAO!! this has helped me a lot as well but I need an example of 6x6 or 6x7 lol
You are not alone😟
Where were you when I was in 3rd -4th Grade in the 70’s! ? What a great tool for people having trouble with this.
I like this but I think the explanation can be improved slightly for the harder cases of 6x6, 6x7, and 7x6 in which you get a product of non-bunched fingers equaling a value greater than 9. If you do 6x6, you have 2 bunched fingers (which would be 2 in the tens place or 20) and then 4 unbunched on each hand. 4x4 is 16, which you can’t simply put in the ones place, but must add 20 and 16 to get 36.
Yep ur right I agree
WhatsApp about 7x6
yess honestly i was confused because when i did the first step to 6x6, which is to put your two thumbs togetter, i was like wait its atleast 20? no it cant be wait let me check again and in the end i was still confused (somehow adding the 20 and 16 was not in my mind at that moment lol)
I just tried this trick with the missus. She said 6×7..... and I looked like a moron.😢
6x7 leaves 3 bunched fingers (30) and 4x3=12. Add the 12 to 30. Seems to work for me
This is AMAZING! I have struggled for years and found other less- quick ways to do multiplication. Thank you for sharing! I’m going to share with my friends with kiddos- OR adults like myself.
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Respects me too
You needed to find a way to use your fingers in order to do simple multiplication? Lol
Someone in a different group linked this wondering why this is true. Took me about 10 minutes, but figured out why, if anyone's interested.
Any number 10 or less, can be rewritten as 10 minus that number. So for example 6 = 10-4.
So let's take 2 numbers, say 7 and 9 and rewrite 7 * 9 as (10-3)(10-1). Distributing, we get 100-30-10+3. The 100 represents all fingers, the 30 and 10 that we 'take away' are 3 and 1 fingers that are not grouped together on the left and right hands respectively, leaving just 6 fingers together in the middle, ie. 60. And the 3 and 1 which are not together in the middle are the two digits that are multiplied together, which are added to the 60, giving us our 63.
If anyone understands this explanation, then I doubt they’ll need this multiplication trick. 😛
@@cajandjas let's do an algebra equation to figure out basic multiplication 😂😂
Seriously though, this was a good explanation for anyone wondering why the trick works. I think OP was just trying to help curious minds
Sounds easier just to memorize than remember all those incidentals
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So cool‼️ I am 61 yrs. old & I have never heard of this! Even at my age , I do sometimes struggle with these times tables, so this is very handy for me. Thank you very much for this informative video. I’ve subbed and am excited to see what other things I can learn on this channel❗️ ❤️fromOregon🇺🇸
Marvelous! I’m 36 and have never learned this trick. I knew a finger trick with the 9X. It’s a little different, but works every time. Thank you!!
It is from Vedic Math, the ancient Indian religious arithematic.
As an older person I greatly appreciate this free method God Bless you and your channel 😊❤🎉
These are brilliant. I already had a set of hands made up for the nines trick, which I already knew. My scholars and I are going to be making up a lot of hands to work with.
As a kid in was taught the 9 times table using my hands, but in a different way. For instance, if unwanted 7 x 9, you would close down your 7th finger and count the fingers on the left and then the right giving you 63
So good too 🤗 I did not know.
Easiest way to do the 9's was to add 1 to the first digit and subtract 1 on second digit.
9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90 then things got weird but at least it helps for those as a kid. When it was explained to me like this I found it to be so easy that I memorized them.
Thanks. I’m genuinely *struggling* with my times tables when I should have already learned them a couple years ago. It’s pretty embarrassing to be honest. This will definitely help a lot until I get them down properly. Thanks a ton!
Me too
Wow!! Never heard of this. Amazing!! Gonna share this with people that really struggle with times tables. Awesome!! 😃
This is awesome. I have a child that struggles with multiplication problem. This looks like a good idea. Thanks for sharing this with me.🙂
I solved with different numbers and I was like-😮😲😲.
Your content is really great , I like your work!❤️
I saw this method in the movie "Stand and Deliver" and always wondered how it fully worked. Thanks for posting.
That's a nice trick, I'll be practicing that one. Thank you!
I went through school with undiagnosed ADHD and found a lot of the ways I was taught, even basic things likes times tables or 24 hour clock, just didn't click in my brain. Now into my 20s, this has absolutely revolutionised how I do my trickier times tables!
Where have you been all my life lol it’s so amazing to feel liberated knowing that I can do simple math. All these years I’ve been making it hard on myself all these years I’ve been trying to find a pattern and I knew it was a pattern. But the way you broke that down simple English smooth talking understood every word you said I could even show someone how to do this that was an amazing job you did what a wonderful teacher wonderful person to even spread this knowledge thank you God bless you I feel free you just don’t understand how good I feel no one how to do simple math.!!!! 💕💯🥰❤️🙌🙏🏿 12•16•21
That seems like so much work, memorizing the multiplication table is so much easier. We were taught to do that and when I had kids every time we got in the car we would start with the ones and work up to the twelves. Today they’re in their 30,s now I can’t even imagine them using their fingers to count.
The only reason I am here watching this video is that memorizing is, in fact, not easier! I just cant seem to memorize the 6-8 tables and that is where most people fail as well.
@@Miiidge I didn’t know that was a problem for people , I wonder why it’s those two.
Best thing in the world for a severe dyslexic. 70 years ago an old man taught me this and many more math tricks with your fingers!. Still used it.👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Amaaaaaazing. I learnt mine off by heart as a kid but my kids are struggling. This is great. Thankyou so much.
There is a very simple trick on the fingers for the 9x table up to 10. Hold fingers out same as in the video (although my thumbs always tend to be on the outside as I look at my palms, but it doesn't matter). Example: 4x9 .. Count from left to right and twitch each finger as you go, then bend the 4th finger. How many fingers left of that? =3. How many fingers right of that bent finger = 6. Answer =36. I always teach this to young kids😁
This is what I taught my kids too!
Hmm.. i kinda have a problem to understand that :D
how would it work with 5x5 and 9x1 for example?
I mean 4x9 did worked great but other combinations?
@@jinzala 5x5 wouldn't work because this is for the 9 times table from 1 to 10. Being the 9 times table 9x1 is better thought of as 1x9. As before, look at the palms of your hands with fingers played out. 1x9: count one digit (finger) in from the left (your left thumb). Left of that (the tens) is nothing, which equals zero. Right of the left thumb are 9 fingers, which equals 9. The answer is 09, or 9. Same if you did 10x9, always starting from the left you'd count all the way from left thumb (1) to right thumb (10), 9 digits to the left of it plus zero fingers to the right =90. Remember, remaining digits to the left of the bent finger are the tens, to the right they are the ones, nothing =zero. Another magical thing about the number nine is that any number where the individual numbers add up to 9, or a multiple of nine, will always be divisible by 9 exactly with no remainder, which is why 10 fingers with one bent finger for the multiplier works. As an example; you know the number 2,111,112 is divisible exactly by 9 with no remainder because the individual numbers all add up to 9 or a multiple of 9. Nine is a great number.
@@keithclunk3125 Aaaaah I see. My english isn't that good, that's why I missed the point that it works for the 9. Thank you :)
That's how I learned...as an adult. I wish I'd known it in school😔 When my son showed me, I was 🤯
I have been really struggling with math, and due to the state testing and also I wish to succeed I need to learn times table and do other problems in subjects we’ve learned, thank you for this video I think this can help me a lot. Also I got that last problem right without you saying the answer! I think I get it!! :DD
Thank you, I Lear ed this trick many years ago from a friend that was a Math Professor. Several times over several years I tried comming up with that trick but I have not been alble to, now I can put it to rest. Holly smokes, Thank you for the key !😁😊
Wow Thank-you so much!! You're too kind in a world where teachers should know this and if they really taught their kids we wouldn't need to look up a video for our kids for math I stumbled across this so hopefully he can tell all his friends.😊That's amazing. Don't we all wish this existed.
That is very helpful! My kids love multiplying now...thank you so much!😊
Thank you.
Now the trick is to get them learning them rote.
With my kids, I wend in order 1, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 6, 9, 7, 8.
We got an app that measured how fast and made the race of getting them in under 30 seconds... keep it light and fun.
Good luck
@@tecmath
What's rote?
Wow, I wish i would have seen this way back in the day. This is actually increible I can not believe this omg. Bless your soul❤❤
This is amazing and my evening has now been improved by 72%.
This trick can be easily proven, but I really enjoy how you figure it out and turn it to a learning tip for kids
This is great! Starting in 5th grade I had a fear of multiplication but instead of memorizing the table I came up with a pretty interesting way to find the answer. Because I could tell time I became really good at the five multiplication tables. So I would use the 5s as my foundation For example 8 * 6 becomes 8 * 5 which is 40. Then I would add another 8. I did this all the way through high school. Lol
Yep, I would get as close as possible by using the 5. And then add to that.
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Same. I'd use typically 5s, 10s or multiplying the same number like 6x6=36 and add/subtract from there. Memorizing them all never occurred to me.
Me too😊
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EXCELLENT 👍 VIDEO. SO TRUE I'VE STRUGGLED WITH SIXES THROUGH NINES ON THE MULT.TAPLE. THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.I HAVE A BUSINESS DEGREE... AND AT TIMES IT WAS EMBARRASSING WHEN I TRIED FIGURING OUT SOME MATH PROBLEMS.THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIDEO.
Thanks for much for uploading this. I've shown my maths tutor and she's uploaded it to the college resource page!
Love these videos
You really helped my a lot with my multiplication, I wanted to learn multiplying numbers faster. Thank you so much.
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Bro I swear it’s 1 in the morning and am 11 AND BRO AM HERE AT 1 AM TRYING TO LEARN MY TIME TABLES AFTER 1 YEAR OF NOT GOUNG TO SCHOOL I SWEAR THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH AM SO HAPPYYY!!!!
I am a teacher and I knew the “handy trick” for the 9’s, but this is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Nice trick! Memorization is easier as you've already mentioned but this ensures you're remembering correctly!
Indeed, as soon as I learned multiplications, I wrote down the first 10 tables 10 times. It was a little tedious, but I still benefit nearly 30 years later since I memorized every answer
That's so cool!
There is a trick for the 9’s but I didn’t know about the 6, 7 & 8. Thanks, that’s awesome
You just cleared up 45 years of confusion in my head.
Thank you.
There's a real easy way to remember your 9 times.
For example.
9x2= 18
9x3= 27
As you can see the first number in each answer is one number lower than what it's being times by.
And then the 2 numbers in the answer will always add up to 9.
Some more examples.
9x3= 27 see that the first number in the answer 2 is one number lower than 3.
And then the second number in the answer 7 makes it add up to 9.
9x4= 36
9x5= 45
And so on.
Easy peasy....
Wow, thanks. 😀😀😀😀😀
I figured something.
The 2nd digit answer is always the DIFFERENCE of 10 and the number multiplied by.
In the answer 27 for example, 3 minus 10 is 7.
Even easier for your 9s only: put the finger down that you're multiplying by and the answer is the fingers that are before and after the finger that's is lowered.
Example: 9 x 7, you put your 7th finger down. Before that 7th finger there are 6 other fingers and after that 7th finger there are 3....combinne them and you get the answer: 63. It works for all from 9x1 all the way to 9x10
You have to use your fingers.
How is that easier.
Ohhhhhhhhh !!!
That is very helpful,,,, wish i taught this to my brother when he first learned multiplication
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Omg thank you so much this was great. I’ve never known my times rabies and feel empowered with this.
This is a clever trick but I think harder to remember than the tables themselves.
I agree! I struggled to remember the times table above 6. When I couldn’t remember 7x8, for instance, I just did 5x8 + 2x8 = 56, adding the ones I could remember. I still do it this way sometimes. I feel that gives a child a better sense of what the multiplication actually means than finger tricks.
Who the hell comes up with these things? That's amazing :-)
Wow! What a amazing trick, I always struggle with maths. This helps so much thank you!^^ This will definitely help my special needs friends, as they struggle with maths to. Thanks again!
THANK U SO MUCH!!!!!!!!
I have been needing help with my multiplication
I learned this at primary school in the 1970s, my kids & grandkids know how to use this method too.😊
dziękuję! super wiedza! 😊
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Thank for this trick. I intend to show this to my grand daughter. It is so easy!
Wow now I can show this maths tec to my friends Thanks man, glad i watched this video!
I found that very complicated, easier to learn the tables
Cool! Learn those times tables anyway!
It's good to have lots of options, since everyone's minds work a little differently. Learners select the ones they find the most appealing and keep using them until they find even more efficient ways. I have my students reference a multiplication table to help them practice as they master the tables, but if they can learn this, they won't need to have the paper version handy.
this trick is also very helpful
Wow 🔥🔥🔥
WOW that's so great 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 this will help my kids so much
Omg never seen this before and works really quickly fantastic
👌 awesome
This would have been helpful as a child in school because my dad was in the Air Force and we traveled around a lot.. Each school I went to would have a different Curriculum and some things were taught to me twice and some things were not taught because they were already covered in the grade prior apparently, Or were to be taught later at some point when I inevitably would not be there. I did fairly well in other subjects - didn't miss a beat in English/Literature, Grammer or Spelling but my Maths always suffered. Never cared much for history, but later on learned that you don't get the real history until college level anyway.
I can relate in some way, at a young age I was being taught how the rest of the class was being taught math and I tried so hard to comprehend the steps but my brain for some reason couldn’t figure it out then years later I went to college took a math course and then some things weren’t taught because it was assumed that it was just basic things that everyone should know and not be freshened up …. ( after doing some research here and there on my own, I found out I had Dyscalculia) which made sense but at the same time made me so angry and upset because I feel like I missed out on so many opportunities to learn new ways to do math …. And til this day I still struggle with it …. & have always been so embarrassed about it , it’s a flaw I don’t like talking to much about …. I feel like I am not capable of doing anything if I don’t have math being my strongest…. 😢😔
At the age of 58, this is a really useful trick to learn. I struggled through my entire schooling with maths and have never learnt my times tables. OMG, I feel fantastic. You have made my year and it is only 00:48 on 01 January 2024 here in Bedfordshire, England. Is this a good omen for the rest of the year? Thanks so much xx
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing ❣
My primary teacher used a giant jar of spangles sweeties and on our classroom back wall were huge colorful posters for each times table .....
We were allowed to use them when we did our sums and at the end of each day we all sat with our backs to the posters and she would choose three of us and we had to get 3 in a row correct without peeking at the charts to get a sweet and if we got one wrong , she'd say " turn and look at the table before sitting down " and even though I was disappointed I had no sweet , I remembered it next time she asked me !!!😉
Great motivation for us and we always ended the day with a particular times table to recite by rote !
She never showed favoritism and we all got a chance to shine and suck on a spangle .......course , this was in the 60's , but I have NEVER forgotten my times tables ....they stuck !!!!
That is awesome.
Thank you for sharing that lovely story!
Trying to apply this method for 7 x 6, for example. When you circle up you are getting 3 because you have 3 fingers caught up in the circle, and you have 3(left hand) x 4(right hand) =12 outside the circle. So the result according to the presented method will be 312. Instead, the real result is 42. It would work if I compact the first two digits of 312 and getting 3+1=4 but that would change the presented method.
Ah I had this question too. I think you solve it by making the final stage a simple addition. So ie. the first step gives you your tens digit, and the second step gives you a number to add to complete the sum. If your number is 12 (for 6x7) or 16 (for 6x6) then you need to carry the 1.
@@practicalskills2253 thanks
Yea I wrote a similar comment. 7x6 first number is 3, 6x6 you get a 2 for the first number. This doesn't work for everything.
The method does still work and it’s a bit like you said.
7 x 6 : you have 3 fingers then you have : 3 x 4 on the outside which is equal to 12
Since you can’t use 2 digit numbers you just carry over the 1 (like in addition) to get your answer
its like 30 and 12 add them together
Oh my genious math dad taught me that, I also watched 2 videos from you! I just got notification from you
Love it! Thank you!
Man I can't believe this guy is a genius
6x7 doesn't work
This might be good for emergency for teaching kids, but it can be confusing be they don't have the same method for some of them, for example, the 6x6 and 6x7 and require a slight different method.
Wow!!! But why?
Sh8 your right, now i have a different problem🥲
Can you teach me how?
AMAAAZING! Thanks so much for sharing, this helps soooo much.
AMAZINGLY SIMPLE! THANK YOU
I know that already my fourth year teacher taught us how to do it, but it's really helpful to teach other how it works its actually pretty easy u learn it so fast
Thank you for your comment Ella. Glad you know it.
Thank you I've been struggling how to do my time tables.. you can't just deliver right you got to learn it.. and thanks for teaching me
I have never needed tricks to do multiplication of two numbers, especially between 6 and 10, but this is very cool 👍
Thank you so much as i struggle a lot with this and this will help me through my life thank you!
I wish I had had a maths teacher like you when I was a child. I’m 70 now and still trying
Great trick. BUT, can you explain how it works?
I know, but I'll not share.
I taught both my children by rote by the time they were 6. They both knew their times tables perfectly up to 12x.
There was a test: recite every single table flawlessly and then answer 10 quick fire questions without hesitation. It took my son 5 attempts and my daughter 6 attempts but they both succeeded and were rewarded. My son got a digital camera and my daughter something similar.
Mostly what they got was a lifetime of instant answers.
I love that.
I taught my kids similarly - easy, relaxed, timed, but with a trip down the shops each one we got through.
And the same thing. They know them.
I did teach this trick to them as an in between, but there was no way they could do them in the set time of they used the trick.
Awesome! Thank you for another cool trick.
It is magic, what a clever man, thank you
Why doesn’t 6x7 work with this method? I’m guessing that the 3 fingers bunched up would represent 30 and the fingers left over are 4 and 3 making 12 adding to 30 would be 42 but still doesn’t work like the other examples.
Good question.
I had exactly the same query re: 6x6 ... therefore example needs to have an expanded explanation as explained by Joskus several comments down
Two thumbs gives first number 20. The second part is multiplying 4 fingers on the left with 4 on the right = 16.
20+16=36
Sir i really need your help in calculating divisions for decimals with big numbers. Often times in chemistry, there's always division where up to 3 or 4 decimals are present like 30.4607. Where four options have correct answer with decimal present. How do i divide quickly including the decimals.
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Search his other vids.. there’s one on long division
Basically Multiply both sides by (x) to get rid of the (,) so you’re not dealing with awkward arithmetic
OMG. I wish someone taught me this trick when I was a kid. This would have helped me a lot.
But I guess I could teach this trick to my kids and students.
Thank you so much
Thanks for helping me with this easy multiplication
Why the hell didn't I learnd that at lower grades.
7 x 8 is easy. The answer is 56. It's 56 7 8
Fleur - I had never noticed that!
That is up there with when I realised July, August, September, October, November spell JASON...
What's 8×7 then?
@@billythekid9821 56 by using finger math
@@billythekid9821 Easy. 65. ;)
@@bujin1977 Nice
How incredibly astute!!!!! Thinking outside the 'Box'...!!!!
Thanks a lot. Very helpful ❤
But tell me how to multiply double digit number. please reply
Yeah.. I'd like to know too.. I couldn't make it work
@@leegordon326 Only you have multiple fingers
There is no trick. You need to learn how to do multiplication.
calculator.
@@brightonchou1393 Genius but thats like cheating
This is way harder than just multiplying the numbers..
You are no joke a genius!
BRILLIANT !!
as someone who is number Dyslexic this is FANTASTIC !!
Wish they taught this in school !!
Gonna DEFINITELY save this !!
doesnt work for 6 times 7
ok😊
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I remember being a kid, primer 1, sitting on the floor, rote learning (but not really) 'how boring' 'never going to use in real life' - somewhat true - (lot of excel, lot of data analysis in my work life) - also those 6, 7 & 8 tripped me up (more playing 'games' than work stuff) - this really helps - thank you
Thank you for sharing this easier way to do times tables🎉
This might work, but it's way too slow. Spend a few minutes to learn your tables. Then, every now and then go over them to keep them fresh in your mind. You'll have the answer instantly.
I did say - learn those times tables long term!
ITK! 😝
Tattoo it, what...🤣🤣🤣
THANK YOU this helped a lot!!
Wow! That’s amazing. What I did before was memorize the multiplication table
Normally I love your channel. It gives you a quick easy way to do something.
This is the most ridiculous way I've ever seen to do such an easy thing as multiplication tables.
Well first you start by assigning your fingers different numbers than you've ever counted on them.
Then you've got to learn to count all the numbers on your fingertips , in between your fingers ,then you've got to take the numbers on the outside of those circles, and then multiply those blah blah blah
It was seven times eight.. that's 56. there ain't no easier way to do it, than just remember your time tables.
Paint the times tables on your child's wall. They will remember it
True. I dont mean to be negative, but this is definitely more tedious than just memorizing the times tables. It IS still a trick and learning new ways to do stuff is fun in itself.
@@nic0648 hey buddy I'll show you a 4 hour 37 pot and pan way to make dinner.
Or you could acknowledge that you know how to make dinner in less time with less pots and pans now. And can never see yourself needing to take 37 pots and pans in 4 hours just to make dinner everyday.
Just because something works, doesn't mean it goes against the entire grain of this channel. which seems to be teaching you how to do math in your head, very quickly.
√138 in your head in a matter of seconds no problem
Turn something is easy as seven times eight into adding up your fingers with arbitrary numbers on them, multiplying the numbers outside of those fingers.
It's like a non-fun Rube Goldberg machine to get to the same answer
Justin, I have to agree with you. It is waaaaaay simpler to just memorize tables. One of my elementary school teachers had us do daily rote recitation of the multiplication table out loud at the beginning of math class. It was like a chant or a math song, as you kept that rhythm going for every number. You will remember things that you repeatedly hear to a rhythm!
@@speakrighttogod my grandfather gave me a quarter for each multiplication table I remembered
Years later he would give me a quarter for each Jeopardy question I got right and $1 for final jeopardy
To this day I have no problem with my multiplication tables. And I can usually trash who's ever winning on jeopardy.