By the end of Year 4 children aim to know every times table up to 12 × 12. Only a few facts are truly new: the 6s, 7s and 9s, plus the 11s and 12s — and many of those can be worked out from tables they already know.
What your child will learn
- Recall the 6, 7 and 9 times tables
- Recall the 11 and 12 times tables
- Find a missing number in a multiplication
- Use times tables to solve stories
Use what you know
The 6 times table is double the 3s. The 9 times table is the 10s take away one lot: 9 × 7 = 70 − 7 = 63. And 7 × 6 is the same as 6 × 7, so every fact learned is really two.
Example questions
Here are a few questions like the ones in the first quest. Can you solve them?
1. What is 2 × 7?
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Answer: 14. Count in 7s: 7, 14. So 2 × 7 = 14.
2. What is 7 × 3?
- 21
- 10
- 14
- 28
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Answer: 21. Count in 7s: 7, 14, 21. So 7 × 3 = 21.
3. What is 1 × 7?
- 7
- 0
- 14
- 8
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Answer: 7. Count in 7s: 7. So 1 × 7 = 7.
Tips for grown-ups
- Practise one table for five minutes a day rather than all of them once a week.
- For the 9s up to 9 × 10, the digits of the answer always add up to 9.