Memorizing your multiplication tables (or trying to help your child/student learn them) can be really hard, especially since it requires so much practice and since the multiplication tables are used in all levels of math (even in high school math!). But until you feel really comfortable with your multiplication facts, here are some tricks that may help you solve and remember them!

1. Tricks for
Memorizing Your
Multiplication
Tables

2. The Zero Times Table
- Any number times zero is always zero, no
matter what!
- Think about it like this; when you multiply
7 times 0, you’re really asking “How much
is zero groups of 7?” You can replace 7
with any number, but the answer will
always be 0.

3. The One Times Table
- Any number multiplied by one will
always be that number!
- For example, when you multiply 6 times
1, you’re really saying “One group of 6 is
equal to 6.”

4. The Two Times Table
- If you can add two numbers together, you
can already do your two times table!
- Multiplying a number by two is the exact
same thing as adding a number to itself,
or doubling it.
- For example, 2×8=16 which is the
same thing as 8+8=16.

5. The Four Times Table
- Once you’ve gotten down the two times table,
you can do the four times table too!
- The answers to the four times table are the
answers to the two times table added to
themselves, or doubled.
- Here’s an example. In order to get the
answer to 4×6, take the answer to 2×6,
which is 12, and add it to itself to get 24.

6. The Five Times Table
- If you can count by fives, you already know
the five times table!
- For example, let’s solve 5×4. As you count
up by fives, count up on your fingers how
many times you’ve added on five. Once you
have four fingers up, you’ve counted to the
answer, which is 20.

7. The Nine Times Table
- You can use your hands to solve the nine times
table. Let’s do the problem 3×9=27.
- First, think of your fingers as representing the
numbers 1 through 10 like in the picture below.
- Next, bend down finger number 3. To the left of
your bent finger, there are 2 fingers up, and to
the right of your bent finger, there are 7 fingers.
Your fingers show the correct answer, 27!

8. The Ten Times Table
- When you multiply a number by 10, just add
on a zero to that number to get the answer!
- For example to solve 7×10, just add a zero
to 7 to get the correct answer, 70. This
works when you multiply any number by
10!

9. The Eleven Times Table
- When you multiply 11 by any number from 1 to 9, the answer is just that
number duplicated!
- For example, 11×6=66. The 6 is duplicated to get 66!
- Remember the above trick only works with single digit numbers! If you want
to multiply 11 by a two digit number, try one of these tricks below.
- Let’s multiply 11×12 for this example. Write down 1 and 2 with a space in
between them like this, 1__2. Add 1+2 and fill in that space with the
answer, 3.
- Let’s multiply 11×12 again, but let’s use a different trick. Remember that
11 is just 10+1. So first multiply 10 times 12 to get 120, and then multiply 1 1
times 12 to get 12. Now just add 120 and 12 together to get the answer to
11×12!

10. The Twelve Times Table
- Let’s use one of the tricks from the eleven times table to
multiply a number times 12.
- Remember that 12 is 10+2. So, to multiply a number
times 12, first multiply 10 times that number and then
multiply 2 times that number. Add the two products
together to get the answer to what that number times
12 is!
- Here’s an example. Let’s solve 12×4 with this trick.
- 10×4=40 and 2×4=8. Add together 40 and 8 to
get 48, which is the answer to 12×4!