How do you teach multiples?

Answer 1

I learned by adding: so, 2*3= 2+2+2 or 3+3, and therefore, 6.

Also, some multiplication tables have a rhythm/rhyme... six times eight is forty-eight.

For multiplying by 9, put your hands open next to each other, and whatever is being multiplied by 9, let's say 4, you put your 4th finger down (your pointer finger on your left hand), and the fingers on the left of the finger you put down make up the first digit of the answer, and the fingers on the right of the finger you put down make up the second digit. So, 9*4=36.