Multiplication
The 12 times table
Every fact from 12 × 1 to 12 × 12, what to notice about them, and a game for drilling the ones that don't stick.
Practise the 12s →The full table
| 12 × 1 | 12 |
|---|---|
| 12 × 2 | 24 |
| 12 × 3 | 36 |
| 12 × 4 | 48 |
| 12 × 5 | 60 |
| 12 × 6 | 72 |
| 12 × 7 | 84 |
| 12 × 8 | 96 |
| 12 × 9 | 108 |
| 12 × 10 | 120 |
| 12 × 11 | 132 |
| 12 × 12 | 144 |
How to remember it
- Ten times plus two times: 12 × 7 is 70 + 14.
- Worth knowing beyond school — clocks, months, inches and dozens all run on 12.
Practising it properly
Recall and calculation are different skills. A child who works out 7 × 8 by counting up from 7 × 4 knows the maths, but they'll still stall on it in a longer problem. The goal is answering without working it out — which is why the game times every card and treats a slow correct answer as something still worth practising.
Short and frequent beats long and rare. Five minutes a day moves a fact from "worked out" to "known" faster than half an hour on a Sunday.
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