Tap a square to walk there (tap again to change course), then press MUNCH to eat the number you're standing on. Eat the right numbers. Don't eat the wrong ones. Don't get caught.
youBee: wandersCrow: guards the answersWeasel: chases you
For grown-ups: the 2 to 10 times tables in 12 levels, for 2nd to 4th grade. Progress saves on this device. About this game
About Times Table Munch
Times Table Munch is a free times tables game for 2nd to 4th grade. A garden of 30 numbers fills the screen, and the rule at the top says which ones to eat: the multiples of 6, say, or the answer to 7 × 8. Your child walks the goat to a number and presses Munch to eat it. The right numbers are eaten, a wrong one costs a heart, and a bee, a crow or a weasel wanders the garden to get in the way. Clear every right number to finish the level.
How it teaches
Moving and eating are two separate actions. Walking to a square never answers anything, so a child can dodge, change their mind or stop to think. Only the Munch button is a maths decision.
Times tables fluency means fast and right, so the game is played against a gentle clock: the enemy keeps moving. The early levels are slow and forgiving, and the enemies never take answers away. Every right number on the board is the child's to find.
A wrong munch is explained, not just marked: the game shows the times table the number is not in (12 is not in the 5s: 5, 10, 15, 20…) or the right answer to the fact.
Every right munch shows the fact it stands for, such as 6 × 7 = 42, so the multiples connect back to multiplication.
Each board is new every time: about a third of the squares are right, and the rest are close calls (a number or two off, or from a nearby table), so guessing doesn't pay.
The 12 levels
Bee Meadow (levels 1 to 3): the multiples of 2, 5 and 10. The bee wanders at random.
Crow Orchard (levels 4 to 6): the multiples of 3 and 4, then mixed facts from the 2s to the 5s, one fact at a time. The crow hangs around the answers near the goat.
Weasel Woods (levels 7 to 12): the multiples of 6, 7, 8 and 9, then mixed facts from the 6s to the 9s and a last level of the tricky ones. The weasel follows the goat, slowly.
Every level is open, so a child can start with the table they are learning.
For parents and teachers
It runs in the browser on tablets, phones, Chromebooks and computers. On a computer the arrow keys move and the space bar munches.
No ads, no sign-up and no accounts. Progress is saved only on the device you play on.
you
Bee: wanders
Crow: guards the answers
Weasel: chases you