Students do NOT need to memorize 100 multiplication facts! When students know their foundational facts (0s, 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s) AND they know a few key strategies (like the one I talked about in my last couple of reels), then students only have a *handful* of tricky facts, which they can use number sense to come up with the answer to efficiently! 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s always seem to be the most tricky to students… These (and a few others) fall into the category we call “derived facts” which means that