Today in maths my group had to do like 8 times 9 but work it out by using 5 times and it was hard at the start but when miss tame show us a bit more my mates and i started to get  the  hang of it maths is so  fun i love doing it miss tame is the best maths teacher ever.this is how you do it.9x8=72 thats how you would do it but this is how we do it.9x8 then we go 9x5=45 then 9x3=27 then we add 45 and 27 which is 72.By Harry