Every times-table fact is a tree in your child's forest. Answer it quickly and it grows. Leave it too long and it wilts — just like real memory. Five minutes a day grows all 144.
Start growing 🌱 Free forever · no account needed · works on any phone, tablet or computerTwelve lands, one for each times table — from the Meadow of Twos all the way to Twelve Crown Summit. Plant a land's trees, grow them, forest them, then take its Golden Challenge to crown it. Hazel the squirrel climbs with you, and the Summit holds a mock Times Tables Check for the brave.
And here's the honest bit parents will like: a crowned land only stays crowned while its trees stay watered. Keeping your kingdom is remembering — the game and the learning are the same thing.
Behind the forest is a proper spaced-repetition engine — the same method medical students use to memorise thousands of facts. Each fact earns its way up, one quick correct answer at a time.
Most practice sites ask questions at random — so children repeat what they already know and rarely meet their weak spots at the right moment. FactForest remembers every fact separately.
7×8 wrong? It comes straight back today. 7×8 right and quick? See it again in three days, then a week — spacing that matches how memory actually strengthens.
The goal is fluency — knowing 7×8 instantly, the way you know your own name. A tree only turns golden when the answer comes quickly every time.
Short daily sessions beat long weekly ones — that's one of the most repeated findings in learning research. One session over breakfast is enough.
In England, every Year 4 child sits the Multiplication Tables Check: 25 questions, six seconds each. FactForest's practice uses the same six-second rhythm from day one, and includes a faithful mock check — so the real one feels like just another session in the forest.
FactForest is free, has no advertising, and collects nothing about your child — no name, no email, no account, no tracking. Progress is saved only on your own device.
We don't claim miracles. We claim that retrieval practice, spacing and short daily sessions are among the best-evidenced ideas in learning science — and we show our sources on the science page, so you can check us.