Multiplication Charts and Tables

Reading the grid

One factor runs down the left, the other across the top, and the answer sits where they cross. Read a row and you get one table: the sixth row is 6 x 7 = 42, then 6 x 8 = 48, each step adding another six. That is the check to use when a square looks wrong. If the gap between two neighbours is not the row number, the eye has slipped a line.

Every chart here

• Multiplication table worksheet – print it, then fill a blank one from memory.
• Multiplication chart free print – the plain grid, nothing to sign up for.
• Times table 1-12 – the twelve tables written out row by row.
• Multiplication table blank – empty squares to fill in.
• Multiplication table 1 to 100 – the long chart.
• Multiplication chart 1-30 – past the point where most charts stop.
• Multiplication chart 1-1000 – what that request really means, and what to use instead.
• 1 to 20 times table – the twenty rows in one place.
• 2 times table – the first one anyone learns.
• Times 5 table – the row that always ends in 5 or 0.
• 13 times table, 16 times table and 18 times table – the rows the classroom chart leaves out.

Which one for which job

A full grid is a reference: good on a wall, good for spotting that the answers repeat around the diagonal. A single table is for learning, because one row at a time is a small enough piece to hold. A blank grid is the only one of the three that tests anything, since a filled chart will happily be copied without a single fact going in.

Half the grid is a copy

The 144 squares are not 144 separate facts. Everything above the diagonal repeats below it, because 4 x 9 = 36 and 9 x 4 = 36 are the same square seen twice. Take out the 1, 2, 5 and 10 rows, which most people already have, and what is left to learn is a small band in the middle: mostly the sixes, sevens, eights and nines against each other.

Printing

Landscape first. If the last columns still slide off the page, use the fit-to-page setting or lower the scale to around 80 per cent rather than shrinking the browser window, which reflows the table instead of resizing it. French pages for the same tables, including exercises, are on the calculatrices side of the site.