Times tables chart, tap a square, hide the answers, print it.

A times tables chart (also called a multiplication chart or a multiplication table) lists the answers to every sum from 1 × 1 to 12 × 12 in one grid. The 144 squares hold only 78 different facts, because each one appears twice. The tool above lets you tap a square, highlight a table, hide the answers, take a quiz on the whole chart, and print a full or blank chart.

How to use the times tables chart tool

1. Click Chart to see the grid. Tap any square to see its sum and highlight its row and column. Go up to sets the size: 10, 12, 15 or 20.
2. Tick Hide the answers and tap a square to reveal it. Under Practise which table, pick one table to highlight and to quiz on, or leave All tables.
3. Click Practice quiz, then Start the quiz. Type each answer and press Enter. A wrong answer shows a quick way to work it out.
4. Under Quiz questions choose 10, 20, 30 or every fact once. Tick Ask both ways round or Include division to make the quiz harder.
5. At the end, read your score and click Practise the missed ones to go over only the facts you got wrong.
6. Use Print table for a clean sheet, Print practice sheet for a blank one, Copy table to paste the list, and Copy link to share your settings.

The times tables chart, 1 to 12

Every number in the grid is the row number times the column number. The shaded diagonal on the tool above holds the square numbers.

How to read the chart

Find the first number down the left side and the second number along the top. The square where the row and column meet is the answer. For 6 × 9, go to row 6 and column 9: 54. Because the numbers can go in either order, 9 × 6 is the same square mirrored.

Patterns on the chart

• The mirror line. The diagonal from 1 × 1 to 12 × 12 holds the squares: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144. Everything on one side matches the other.
• Row 1 and column 1 match the headings, because multiplying by 1 changes nothing.
• Row 10 and column 10 are the headings with a zero added.
• Row 2 is the doubles, and rows 4 and 8 are doubles of doubles.
• Row 5 ends in 5, 0, 5, 0, all the way across.

How many facts do you really need?

The chart has 144 squares, but each fact appears twice except the 12 squares on the diagonal, so there are 78 different facts. You can skip many: the 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 tables each have a trick (see the single table pages). Without those seven, only the numbers 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 are left, and facts between them number 15: 3 × 3, 3 × 4, 3 × 6, 3 × 7, 3 × 8, 4 × 4, 4 × 6, 4 × 7, 4 × 8, 6 × 6, 6 × 7, 6 × 8, 7 × 7, 7 × 8 and 8 × 8. Those 15 are the facts to focus on.

Beyond 12

Set Go up to to 15 or 20 for a bigger chart. The grid then ends at 20 × 20 = 400. Every extra row is built the same way: 17 × 8 is 10 × 8 plus 7 × 8, which is 80 + 56 = 136.

Worked examples

• Reading a square. 8 × 6: row 8, column 6, answer 48.
• Using the mirror. If you know 4 × 9 = 36, then 9 × 4 = 36.
• Spotting a square number. 7 × 7 = 49 is on the diagonal.
• Division. To find 72 ÷ 8, look along row 8 for 72. The column is 9, so 72 ÷ 8 = 9.
• Past 12. 15 × 6 = 90 and 20 × 20 = 400.

Common mistakes

• Reading the wrong row because the numbers sit close together. Tap a square to highlight its row and column.
• Learning the chart in order and never testing it. Hide the answers and take the quiz.
• Thinking you must learn 144 facts. There are 78, and 15 of those are the hard ones.

A way to learn it

Start with the single table pages (1 to 12) for the tricks, then come back to the chart and use it for a mixed quiz. Choose a table under Practise which table to focus on it, or leave All tables to mix them.

For the tricks behind each row, start with the 8 times table, the 9 times table and the 7 times table. To make your own cards from a list of facts, use the flashcard maker.