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White cards with coloured borders and the animals in colour. For every animal rescued, your child colours in a star.
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Children usually learn the 12 times table in Year 4 in the UK and in Grade 3 in the US. It is the last table in the English check, and the 12s are a dozen: eggs, months, hours on the clock. Below are the facts from 12 × 1 to 12 × 12, the tricks that make them stick, the mistakes to watch for, and two things to print: a worksheet with 32 problems (multiplication both ways round and the matching division facts, with eight animals to rescue) and a poster of the table in its colour from the multiplication chart. Free, no sign-up.
- 12 × 112
- 12 × 224
- 12 × 336
- 12 × 448
- 12 × 560
- 12 × 672
- 12 × 784
- 12 × 896
- 12 × 9108
- 12 × 10120
- 12 × 11132
- 12 × 12144
Colouring version
Black and white for any printer. Once an animal is rescued, your child gets to colour it in.
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12 times table chart (poster)
The 12 times table from 12 × 1 to 12 × 12 in big type, in its colour from the multiplication chart, with the lemur that keeps it. For the wall or the fridge.
Download PDFFree for home and the classroom. Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0, so feel free to print, copy and pass it on, just don't sell it. If you share the sheet online, please link to this page. CC BY-NC 4.0
The 12s are the 6 times table doubled, or the 10s plus the 2s. The 11 times table works the same way. All twelve tables at once are on the multiplication chart, and the Multiplication Tables Check practice sheets test the 2 to 12 tables in the format of the Year 4 check.
How the worksheet works
- Each of the eight animals has three problems to work out and one gate problem, just like in the game: out of three answers, your child circles the right one.
- When all four problems are right, the animal is rescued: in the ink-saving version your child colours in its star, in the colouring version the whole animal.
- The problems run from 12 × 2 to 12 × 12, both ways round, and the matching division facts (72 ÷ 12 and 72 ÷ 6).
- There is no answer key on purpose: check the answers together, or let your child check with the swapped fact (12 × 3 = 36, so 3 × 12 = 36).
Tricks for the 12 times table
Ten times, plus two times
12 × 7 = 70 + 14 = 8412 × 9 = 90 + 18 = 108Twelve lots is ten lots plus two lots. Both parts come from easy tables.
The 6s doubled
12 × 7 = 42 + 42 = 8412 × 8 = 48 + 48 = 96Six times a number, doubled.
Dozens and the clock
12 × 2 = 24 hours12 × 5 = 60 minutes on the clockA dozen eggs, two dozen hours in a day, twelve months in a year: the 12s are everywhere.
The three big ones
12 × 10 = 12012 × 11 = 13212 × 12 = 144A gross is 144, twelve dozen. These three are asked in the Year 4 check and are worth knowing by heart.
Division is multiplication backwards
84 ÷ 12 = 7, because 7 × 12 = 8484 ÷ 12 asks: how many 12s fit into 84? The worksheet practises both directions.
Common mistakes
- 12 × 11 = 132↔12 × 11 = 121
Mixed up with 11 × 11.
What helps: Ten twelves is 120, one more twelve is 132.
- 12 × 12 = 144↔12 × 12 = 124
The tens digit is dropped.
What helps: 120 + 24 = 144. Or: 12 × 12 is double 72.
- 12 × 7 = 84↔12 × 8 = 96
Close answers in the eighties and nineties.
What helps: 70 + 14 = 84, 80 + 16 = 96. Both from the 10s plus the 2s.
For teachers
The sheet works well as independent practice, homework or an extension task for early finishers; the poster goes on the wall next to the full multiplication chart so the class can see where the 12s sit. The colouring version prints on any black-and-white photocopier, and the ink-saving version needs very little colour. In England the 2 to 12 tables are checked in Year 4; the practice sheets for that check are linked above.
More free worksheets
- Multiplication chart 1–12 and 1–10: free printable PDF
- Christmas colour by number: the maths Christmas tree
- Printable maths Advent calendar
- Addition to 10
- Addition and subtraction to 10
- Bridging through 10: addition
- Bridging through 10: subtraction
- Addition and subtraction to 20
- Addition and subtraction to 100
- Multiplication Tables Check: free practice sheets
Rather practise with a game?
In Number Jungle your child runs through the jungle and dashes through the gate with the right answer. The same problems, matched to their school year, with no ads and offline. Free for Android, iPhone and iPad.
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When do children learn the 12 times table?
In Year 4 in England (the national curriculum) and in Grade 3 in the US, after the 2s, 5s and 10s are secure. In England all tables to 12 are checked at the end of Year 4.
What is 12 × 12?
144. It is the square number of this table, shown in a white box on the chart and on the worksheet poster.
Is the worksheet really free?
Yes. It is free, with no sign-up and no email address. You may print and copy it for home and for the classroom (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Is there an answer key?
No, on purpose. The swapped fact is a good check: if your child worked out 12 × 4 = 48, they can check it with 4 × 12. For the gate problems, the right answer is one of the choices anyway.
What is the difference between the two worksheet versions?
The ink-saving version has animals in colour and a star to colour in. The colouring version is completely black and white, and the rescued animal itself gets coloured in.
How can my child keep practising the 12 times table?
Short, frequent practice helps most: a few minutes a day beats one long session. The free game Number Jungle asks the facts that are still wobbly more often until they stick, and the poster on the wall is there for a quick look-up in between.