Four rockets, one in each corner, and thin ruled margins dotted with small outlined stars give this page its space theme, under the heading “Times Table Takeoff!” and the subtitle “Single-Digit Multiplication Facts.” Nine problems fill a continuous 3 by 3 grid, each written vertically with a rule beneath for the answer. The facts are 4x3, 6x2, 5x5, 7x3, 2x8, 9x4, 6x5, 3x7 and 8x6, a spread weighted toward 2s, 3s and 5s with only one problem involving a 9.
Of all the pages in this set, this is the gentlest, so it is the one to start with when a child is just moving up to the full single-digit tables. A short, mostly familiar page early on tends to leave them willing to take on the harder sheets afterward.