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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.

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The full table

The 12 times table, 1 to 12
12 × 112
12 × 224
12 × 336
12 × 448
12 × 560
12 × 672
12 × 784
12 × 896
12 × 9108
12 × 10120
12 × 11132
12 × 12144

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.

Practicing it properly

Recall and calculation are different skills. A child who works out 7 × 8 by counting up from 7 × 4 knows the math, 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 practicing.

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, and it doesn’t need supervising.

This is drill, not a math lesson. It won’t explain what multiplication is and it isn’t tied to any curriculum — you teach the 12s however you teach them, and this is the ten minutes afterwards that make them stick.

The other levels

Twelve tables, no order. Take the one that’s giving trouble.