What's on the times table wheel
The wheel comes loaded with eleven entries: 2×, 3×, 4×, 5×, 6×, 7×, 8×, 9×, 10×, 11×, and 12×. That covers the standard range tested in primary and elementary curricula. Each spin picks one table at random — no bias toward the easy ones or the tricky ones.
If you want to narrow the focus — say, a student who needs extra work on 6×, 7×, and 8× — delete the tables you don't need using the X next to each entry. The remaining tables each take up an equal slice, so the spinner is still fair. You can also hide entries with the eye-toggle to skip them temporarily without removing them from the list entirely.
Using the times table wheel in class
The most common pattern is a cold-call drill: spin, read the result aloud, point to a student, and ask for the full table or a single fact from it. Because the result is genuinely random, students can't predict what's coming and tend to stay more focused than with a fixed sequence.
A second use is pair or group work. Spin once to assign a table to each pair, give them two minutes to quiz each other, then spin again for the next round. Turning the wheel over to students — letting them press Spin themselves — works well for early finishers or independent practice centres.
The Remove Winner toggle below the wheel makes carousel-style drilling easy: switch it on and each table disappears after it's been practiced, so you work through the full set without repeating. When the last entry is gone, the list resets and you can start over.
For a broader set of random classroom tools, see the Classroom hub — or if you want a wheel you can fill with any entries yourself, the wheel generator lets you build one from scratch.
Adjusting the wheel for your lesson
Sometimes you only want the tables your class has covered so far. Delete the ones they haven't learned yet, and the wheel automatically resizes the remaining slices. Add them back as the term progresses — just type the label (e.g. 9×) into the entry field and press Enter.
If you want to weight the practice toward tables students find harder, raise the numeric weight on those entries. A higher weight gives that entry a larger slice and makes it win more often — without you having to remove the others. The general classroom wheel uses the same weighting system if you need it for other classroom decisions.
Spin duration can be set to 3, 5, or 10 seconds from the Customize panel — a longer spin builds a little anticipation, which younger students often enjoy. Sound effects, including a countdown before the spin, can be turned on or off to suit a quiet classroom or a noisier activity.
Times table wheel for homework and home practice
The wheel runs entirely in the browser — no download, no account — so it works just as well at home as in school. A parent can open it on a phone or tablet, hand it to their child, and use it to run a quick five-minute drill before school. The full wheel library has other tools that may be useful alongside it.
The per-session spin history underneath the wheel keeps a reverse-chronological list of every table that came up, so you can see at a glance which ones got the most practice and which ones were skipped by chance.