text: As a child I learned my multiplication tables by making up rhymes for them.  I started to learn multiplication at 9 years old and by the time I was 10 and half way through 5th grade, I had them mastered.  -Six times eight is on the gate, because six times eight is forty-eight-, -Six times nine is such a bore, six times nine is fifty-four-.  I found some sites about multiplication rhymes, hope they help!