4 times table

One table, one page: 4 × 1 to 4 × 10 big enough for the fridge, the multiples of 4 lit up on a hundred chart, and a practice page with the answers taken away.

Ages 7–9 · 2 pages

How to use it

Page one goes on the fridge, page two goes into a punched pocket with a dry-wipe pen. Read the poster together a few times first: the coloured band and the lit squares on the chart give the same ten answers twice, so a child sees the 4s as a path through the hundred as well as a list. Then hand over page two — the same ten facts in a scrambled order, with the multiples missing from the chart and from the counting row.

4 is double double. 4 × 6 is double 6, doubled again: 12, then 24. A child who owns the 2s can reach every fact in the 4s this way, and the last digits repeat 4, 8, 2, 6, 0 all the way up.

Every page in this pack

  1. 4 times table poster: 4 × 1 to 4 × 10 in coloured bands, beside a 1–100 chart with the multiples of 4 highlighted.

    Poster

  2. 4 times table practice page: the ten facts in mixed order with empty answer boxes, the multiples missing from the chart and the counting row.

    Practice

Printing notes

  • Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — scaling shrinks the digits and the whole point is that your child writes them at a steady size.
  • Black-and-white and draft mode are fine. Nothing on these sheets depends on colour.
  • Slide a sheet into a punched pocket and a dry-wipe pen turns one page into a hundred goes.

Where this sheet fits

The thinking behind it

How to Memorize Times Tables (The Calm Way That Sticks)Read the full guide