My first go at Python hasn't gone well

[ichabod801]

The input function returns a string, so the response variable is a string value. You then compare it to the integer value of correct. They will never be equal. You want to convert the string to an integer with int:

response = int(input('response? '))

Note you can do:

print('What is', number, 'X', table)

to print it all on one line. You might also want to look into the format method of strings.