#9 MULTIPLICATION TABLE On Your Hands
May 18, 2015
#9 MULTIPLICATION TABLE
On Your Hands
A Little Trick to Help You With The Multiplies of 9. No Calculator Needed
How to do the Trick
Hold both hands out in front of you palms up
Your left hand is #’s 1 through 5 Thumb being 1 and pinky being 5 Your right hand is #’s 6 through 10 Pinky being 6 and thumb being 10
How to do the Trickcontinued
The number you want to multiply by 9 is the number on your hands that you put down
The fingers to the left of the finger you put down is the first number, # on the left
The fingers to the right of the finger you put down is the second number, # on the right
You do not count the finger you put down
Now that you know how to do
the trick lets get started
multiplying by 9.
Hold Your Hands Up in Front of You.
1 x 9
Put finger #1 down and count the fingers to the left and
right.
So 1 x 9
=9
2 x 9
Put finger #2 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So2 x 9
=18
3 x 9
Put finger #3 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So3 x 9
=27
4 x 9
Put finger #4 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So4 x 9
=36
5 x 9
Put finger #5 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So5 x 9
=45
6 x 9
Put finger #6 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So6 x 9
=54
7 x 9
Put finger #7 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So7 x 9
=63
8 x 9
Put finger #8 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So8 x 9
=72
9 x 9
Put finger #9 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So9 x 9
= 81
10 x 9
Put finger #10 down and count the fingers to the left and right.
So10 x 9
=90
Now that you have learned to use your hands to help you do multiplication with the #9. Lets use our hands
to do one more thing.
Give yourself a pat on the back.