Tables are building blocks of mathematics. If a student is good in tables then topics like division, long multiplication, fractions and algebra would be cake walk for him but if he is not good at it then he would find mathematics difficult. It is seen that those students who have not mastered tables very often fall behind in math and other subjects that use math and begin to loose marks and hence confidence. All because they did not memorize the times tables! But memorizing tables is not easy. Students hardly know tables of 14. Ask a student about it and he would tell you that he knows tables up to 12.