Multiplication Songs

Have you noticed how, after watching a Disney film, young children are able to pick up and remember the words to the songs that are in those films? They appear to do so effortlessly. Now contrast that with learning the times tables. How boring was that, coupled with the fear of getting a fact wrong. The solution would seem to be to put the times tables to music.
Many attempts have been made at this. Most of the results have been abysmally bad. Yes the times tables are set to music, but the music doesn't pass the "Old Grey Whistle Test". (Composers in New York in the 1920s, where it was hot in the summer and who worked with the windows open, could tell if they had a hit, if the tramps on the street who overheard them composing whistled their tunes). If the music is tuneless and unmemorable, then it adds nothing to the memorability of the words, the times tables.
Putting the times tables to music is a challenging task, because the lyricist is constrained in the words he can use, seven sevens is forty nine whether or not the music has room for 8 syllables or not. The lyricist can change "Paris in May" for "Paris in April" because the tune requires the extra syllable, but such a change with the times tables would make a nonsense of the entire effort.
We have put the times tables to music, music that is memorable and tuneful, and we haven't found it done better elsewhere. We'd love our arrangement to become as widely used as the tune that is used to teach infants the alphabet, or indeed "Happy Birthday". Your children could be among the first to learn their times tables this way if you study maths with our puppets at "Maths Puppets".