Times Tables Made Easy: Hints, Tips, and Tricks for Mastering Multiplication

by Joe Harris, Sean McArdle (Contributor)

Times Tables Made Easy is not a workbook. It's a full-color reference book, packed with hints, shortcuts, and secret strategies for learning your times tables. It includes time-tested, teacher-approved methods such as doubling (to master the 4x table, just double the answers from the 2x table) and portioning (to figure out 6 x 12, break the 12 into 10 and 2). Illustrated throughout with helpful examples and funky stick-figure helpers, this fantastic guide makes learning times tables easy and fun.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

JOE HARRIS is the co-creator and writer of original comics and graphic novels such as the Image Comics rock ‘n’ roll thrill ride, Rockstars, and the environmental sci-fi epics, Great Pacific and Snowfall; along with the supernatural thrillers, Ghost Projekt and Spontaneous, and the children’s fantasy, Wars In Toyland, for Oni Press. In 2013, Joe began a long stint writing the officially-licensed continuation of the paranormal investigations of Agents Mulder and Scully in The X-Files comics at IDW to the enjoyment of fans around the world. The X-Files: Cold Cases—the best-selling audio dramatization of Joe’s comics scripts featuring the voices of David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and the entire original X-Files cast—and the follow-up, The X-Files: Stolen Lives were released by Audible beginning in 2017.

As a young creator at Marvel Comics, Joe launched the cult-classic Spider-Man spinoff, Slingers and the Bishop: The Last X-Man series. He has written for just about all major comics publishers including DC Comics, Marvel, Image, IDW, Dark Horse, Valiant, BOOM! and others.

A horror screenwriter and filmmaker, Harris conceived and co-wrote Darkness Falls for Sony Pictures—after his short film, Tooth Fairy was acquired by Revolution Studios and he was hired to develop it into a feature—along with the politically farcical slasher movie, The Tripper for FOX. In 2018, he co-wrote the live-action web series, Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe for Valiant Entertainment.

His latest project is Surviving Nuclear Attack, a paranoid sci-fi thriller, set to launch in 2019 as part of John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction from Storm King Comics.

Reviews

[Karan Johnstone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book explains multiplication and what key words to watch out for in word problems. It also explains division and what key words to look out for. They also show arrays and how to use them with both multiplication and division. This book would be good for any student who struggles with multiplication. I really like the glossary in the back of the book.
This book would be good to use for struggling students in both multiplication and division. I could use it during small groups.

[Jen]

looks like a good introduction to multiplication. will have to keep in mind for e.