Times tables worksheets

What's included?

PDF worksheets and posters

Key Stage

KS1, KS2

Age

Years 1-6

Subjects

Take a mastery approach with these nine times tables worksheets. Beginning with the two times table, the activities and questions carefully build children’s understanding of and confidence with the times tables.

Starting with pictorial examples, the problems move on to the abstract. There are layers of challenge to support children as their knowledge of the times tables grows.

Pupils will problem solve using the times tables, learn to spot mathematical patterns and work with basic algebra.

The process also supports children’s understanding of the relationship between the different times tables (eg 2 and 4 times tables and 3 and 6 times tables).

2 times table examples

Complete each number sentence so that it matches the picture
Create a number sentence to match the picture
Match the number sentence to the picture
Find the pattern
Explain the pattern in your own pictures, numbers and words
Create your own pattern
Solve the sums

2 and 4 times table examples

Complete each number sentence so that it matches the picture. See if you can find the pattern
Draw pictures that complete the pattern from question 1. Write the matching number sentence below each picture
Match the number sentence to the picture
Explain the pattern shown in these equations
Create a word problem that you would need the 2 times table to solve
Create a word problem that you would need the 4 times table to solve
Write a letter to your teacher that explains how knowing the 2 times table helps you with the 4 times table

Times tables posters

Also contained in this download are full-page, A4 illustrated multiplication tables posters for numbers 2 to 9. The colourful accompanying graphics include tractors, bees, hot air balloons and apples.

Jeremy Hannay is headteacher of Three Bridges Primary School in Southall, London. Browse more times tables activities and algebra games to play online and offline.