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Multiplication chart

Interactive up to 20 × 20, with a blank one for practice. Print either.

Conversion

A table goes one way. To find which table a number is in, look it up in the chart below.

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Show the steps
  1. Count up in 7s, adding 7 each time: 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 77, 84.
  2. Each number in the count is the next line of the table. The 4th number, 28, is 7 × 4.
Printable chart
POINT AT ANY SQUARE

Multiplication chart

Point at a square to see its sum.

×1234567891011121314151617181920
11234567891011121314151617181920
2246810121416182022242628303234363840
33691215182124273033363942454851545760
448121620242832364044485256606468727680
55101520253035404550556065707580859095100
66121824303642485460667278849096102108114120
7714212835424956637077849198105112119126133140
881624324048566472808896104112120128136144152160
9918273645546372819099108117126135144153162171180
10102030405060708090100110120130140150160170180190200
11112233445566778899110121132143154165176187198209220
121224364860728496108120132144156168180192204216228240
1313263952657891104117130143156169182195208221234247260
1414284256708498112126140154168182196210224238252266280
15153045607590105120135150165180195210225240255270285300
16163248648096112128144160176192208224240256272288304320
171734516885102119136153170187204221238255272289306323340
181836547290108126144162180198216234252270288306324342360
191938577695114133152171190209228247266285304323342361380
2020406080100120140160180200220240260280300320340360380400

How to read the chart

Find one number down the left and the other along the top. Where the row and the column meet is the answer. Point at a square, or tap it on a phone, and its row and column light up with the sum written out above the chart.

Size shows 10, 12, 15 or 20 rows. Blank empties every square but keeps the numbers round the edge, so it can be printed and filled in by hand; on screen, tapping a blank square reveals its answer. The print button prints whichever version is showing, with a code linking back to this page underneath.

The box at the top writes out any single table in full. Type 7 for the 7 times table, or 2-5 for four tables at once.

Patterns worth spotting

The chart is a mirror image across its diagonal, because 3 × 8 and 8 × 3 are the same. So a 12 × 12 chart has 144 squares but only 78 different facts to learn, and every one you know gives you its partner for free.

The diagonal from the top left holds the square numbers, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 and on, each a number times itself. They're shaded on the chart.

Some tables give themselves away. Everything in the 10s ends in 0, and everything in the 5s ends in 0 or 5. In the 9s up to 9 × 10, the digits of each answer add up to 9, the tens going up by one as the units come down: 09, 18, 27, 36. And 11 × 1 to 11 × 9 are just the digit written twice, 11 to 99.

Why 12 × 12?

In England, children are expected to know their tables up to 12 × 12 by the end of year 4, and they're tested on it. The multiplication tables check has been statutory for year 4 pupils since the 2021/22 school year. It's 25 questions on a screen, with 6 seconds to answer each one. That's short on purpose, so the answer has to be remembered rather than worked out.

The check leans on the 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables, which the Standards and Testing Agency found to be the hardest. Those are the rows worth the most practice on a blank chart.

Questions

How do I print a blank multiplication chart?

Tick Blank, choose the size, then press Print chart. The printed sheet keeps the numbers along the edges and leaves every square empty.

What's the difference between a multiplication chart and a times table?

A times table is one number multiplied by 1, 2, 3 and so on, like the 7 times table. A multiplication chart puts every table together in a grid, one table to a row.

Which times tables are hardest?

The 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables, according to the Standards and Testing Agency, which gives them extra weight in England's year 4 check.

Does it go past 20?

The chart stops at 20 × 20. The times table box above it writes any table, for numbers up to a million.