Three Barts and a Bogie - A Story about Learning the Three Times Table (The Numberland Tales - Help with Times Tables and Multiplication for Children Book 5)

In this adventure, Danny finds himself in a world of strange creatures called Blarts, who have three legs, a kind heart, and very poor table manners. The story revolves around a grand sports tournament, but with bizarre sports, many of which would be more likely to be found in a circus. It is of course very funny, very silly, occasionally disgusting, and highly educational.

In Three Blarts and a Bogie, Danny learns the three times table, sometimes thought of as the first of the difficult tables due to its lack of reference points: Multiplying by two, four, five and ten is not too difficult as these numbers occur in humans and other mammals, so we can use fingers etc to help us. The number three however does not appear in our own bodies – hence the three legged creatures, who also have three fingers, and count everything in threes.
During the course of this adventure, Danny learns the three times table as he goes along, and uses it to get out of trouble at the end.

Like the other tales in the series, this is a great story in its own right, and not just a way of getting children to learn multiplication