The 6 times table
If you know your 3s or your 5s, the 6s are only one step away.
- 6×1=6
- 6×2=12
- 6×3=18
- 6×4=24
- 6×5=30
- 6×6=36
- 6×7=42
- 6×8=48
- 6×9=54
- 6×10=60
- 6×11=66
- 6×12=72
How to learn the 6s
Each line means “6 groups of”. So 6 × 4 = 24 means four groups of 6 make 24. Every answer is just 6 more than the one before: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30…
The highlighted facts, 6 × 7 = 42, 6 × 8 = 48, 6 × 9 = 54 and 6 × 12 = 72, are the ones learners usually find hardest. The tips below give you a way into each one.
Self-test: press “Hide answers”, say each answer out loud, then tap a fact to check it.
In real life
A half-dozen egg box holds 6 eggs. Four boxes hold 6 × 4 = 24 eggs; insects have 6 legs too.
Three ways to make the 6s easy
The even-number trick
Multiply 6 by an even number (2, 4, 6, 8) and the answer ends in that same number. The tens digit is half of it.
6 × 8 = 48 (half of 8 is 4, then 8)Five plus one more
6 × a number is the 5s answer plus one more of that number.
6 × 7 = 35 + 7 = 42Double the 3s
Six is 3 doubled, so every 6s answer is a 3s answer doubled.
3 × 9 = 27 → 6 × 9 = 54Spot the pattern
Last digits of 6 × 1 to 6 × 10:
Endings 6, 2, 8, 4, 0. The last digits repeat 6, 2, 8, 4, 0: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36… Every answer is even.
In two tables at once. Every 6s answer is also in the 2s and the 3s — and its digit sum is always 3, 6 or 9.
The matching division facts
Every multiplication fact gives you a division fact for free. If 6 × 7 = 42, then 42 ÷ 6 = 7.
- 6 ÷ 6 = 1
- 12 ÷ 6 = 2
- 18 ÷ 6 = 3
- 24 ÷ 6 = 4
- 30 ÷ 6 = 5
- 36 ÷ 6 = 6
- 42 ÷ 6 = 7
- 48 ÷ 6 = 8
- 54 ÷ 6 = 9
- 60 ÷ 6 = 10
- 66 ÷ 6 = 11
- 72 ÷ 6 = 12
6 times table worksheet
Free, no sign-up. A 2-page PDF: the full table with tricks and division facts, plus a worksheet (fill-in, missing numbers, division) with an answer key. US Letter, A4-safe.
Next steps
Tables that connect to the 6s
- 3 times table — halve every 6s answer
- 12 times table — double every 6s answer
- 18 times table — every 18s answer is in the 6s
- ×22 times table
- ×33 times table
- ×44 times table
- ×55 times table
- ×66 times table
- ×77 times table
- ×88 times table
- ×99 times table
- ×1010 times table
- ×1111 times table
- ×1212 times table
- ×1313 times table
- ×1414 times table
- ×1515 times table
- ×1616 times table
- ×1717 times table
- ×1818 times table
- ×1919 times table
- ×2020 times table
- ×2121 times table
- ×2424 times table
- ×2525 times table
- ×3030 times table
Practice the 6s anywhere
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