Multiplication Chart

Generate a multiplication chart in 10x10, 12x12, 15x15 or 20x20, view any single times table, or take a marked quiz. Blank mode prints the same grid with the answers removed.


12 x 12 multiplication chart

× 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
3 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36
4 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48
5 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
6 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72
7 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84
8 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96
9 9 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90 99 108
10 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
11 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 110 121 132
12 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 132 144

Find a row, follow it across to the column you want, and the square where they meet is the answer. The outlined diagonal is the square numbers.

How to read a multiplication chart

The chart is a grid with the numbers 1 upwards along the top and down the left side. To multiply two numbers, find the first along the top, find the second down the side, and read the square where the row and the column cross. 7 x 8 and 8 x 7 land on different squares but both say 56, which is the chart quietly showing you that the order does not matter. The outlined squares running corner to corner are the square numbers, where a number is multiplied by itself.

A sensible order to learn them in

There are 144 squares in a 12 x 12 chart, which looks daunting until you take away the ones that come free. The 1s and the 10s need no work. The 2s are doubling, the 5s always end in 5 or 0, and the 11s up to 9 are just the digit written twice. Because a x b is always the same as b x a, learning one half of the chart gives you the other half at no cost. What is genuinely left to memorise is closer to 25 facts, and the ones most children find hardest are 6 x 7, 7 x 8, 7 x 9 and 8 x 9.

Patterns that do the work for you

The 9 times table has a trick worth knowing: the digits of every answer add up to 9, and the tens digit is always one less than the number you multiplied by. So 9 x 6 starts with a 5, and since 5 + 4 = 9 the answer is 54. The 4s are just doubling twice. The 6s are the 3s doubled. The 8s are the 4s doubled, or the 2s doubled three times. And any number multiplied by 5 is half of that number times 10, which makes 5 x 14 easy: half of 14 is 7, so the answer is 70.

Printing and practising

The print button gives you a clean black and white grid with the colours removed, which saves ink and photocopies well. Turn on blank practice mode to print the same grid with the answers taken out, so a child can fill it in from memory and check against the full version afterwards. The quiz draws random questions from whatever chart size you picked, marks them on the spot, and shows the correct answer next to anything that was missed.

Worth knowing

  • Filling in a blank grid from memory is far more effective practice than reading a completed one.
  • Learn the squares first. They sit on the diagonal, they are easy to picture, and they anchor everything nearby.
  • Short daily practice beats long sessions. Five minutes a day will outrun an hour once a week.
  • If a fact will not stick, work out which neighbour you do know and step to it. Stuck on 7 x 8? Take 7 x 7 = 49 and add 7.
  • Nothing you enter here is stored. Charts and quizzes are built on our server and discarded immediately.

Frequently asked questions

Pick your first number along the top row and your second down the left column, then follow both until they meet. The number in that square is the answer. It works in either direction, because multiplying 6 by 9 gives the same result as multiplying 9 by 6.

12 x 12 is the standard in most schools and covers everything ordinary arithmetic asks for. 10 x 10 is friendlier for a child just starting out. 15 x 15 and 20 x 20 are useful for older students, mental arithmetic practice and anyone working with larger factors.

Switch on blank practice mode, then press print. You get the same grid with the row and column headings intact and every answer removed, ready to be filled in by hand. Print the completed version too so the work can be checked afterwards.

Take the free ones first: 1, 10, 2, 5 and 11. Then use the fact that the order does not matter, which halves what is left. Practise little and often, always in mixed order rather than by reciting a table start to finish, because recall in real life never comes in order.

Those are the square numbers, where a number is multiplied by itself: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 and so on. They are outlined because they are worth learning first. Every other answer in the chart sits close to one of them, so knowing the squares gives you a starting point for working out the rest.

Yes. The two digits of every answer add up to 9, and the first digit is one less than the number you multiplied by. For 9 x 7, one less than 7 is 6, and 6 needs a 3 to reach 9, so the answer is 63. It holds all the way up to 9 x 10.

A 12 x 12 chart has 144 squares, but you never have to memorise 144 things. The 1s and 10s are automatic, and because a x b equals b x a you only need one half of the grid. Once the easy tables are out of the way, roughly 25 facts are actually left to learn.

No. Questions are generated on our server, marked when you submit them and then forgotten. Nothing is written to a database, no account is needed, and refreshing the page simply gives you a fresh set of questions.

How do you use a multiplication chart?

Find your first number along the top, your second down the left, and read the square where they meet. This tool draws a 10x10, 12x12, 15x15 or 20x20 chart, a single times table on its own, or a marked quiz. Turn on blank mode to print a practice grid with the answers removed.