Learning times tables off by heart is a fundamental part of primary maths, yet many children go on to High School without knowing them. This really inhibits progress with a whole range of other maths, including long and short multiplication, long and short division, factors, multiples etc.
There are not that many facts to learn and once learned off by heart they are seldom forgotten.
Here are a couple of starter pages for the two times table. I have gone up to 12 x 2 because the new national Curriculum for maths seems to have this as one of its requirements next year, although many people would argue that learning tables up to 10 covers all necessary requirements.
Thanks to urbrainy.com for letting me use this resource from their wide range of worksheets.