The Disco Goat needs help with getting the disco bunnies organised on stage and ready for the performance of a lifetime!

But everyone likes numbers and arithmetic when they're young, and this game helps remind you of that. Multiplication is embedded in geometry: the product of two numbers is the area of a rectangle.

Matrix multiplication, which involves multiplying two rectangular arrays of numbers, is often found at the heart of speech recognition, image recognition, smartphone image processing, compression ...

In this KS1 article you'll learn how to solve multiplication and division problems using an array. We also have a KS1 Maths videos, a quiz and lots of examples.

Explore ways of for breaking up multiplications. Create and solve easy multiplications such as 9 x 3. Examine relationships between rows, columns and areas in arrays. Play the The Array game!