Tables From 1 to 20 - Tricks, and How to Learn

Tables From 1 to 20 - Tricks, and How to Learn

TL;DR

Tables from 1 to 20 are the multiplication facts for every number from 1 to 20, and this page holds them all in one master grid. Learn how to read the grid both ways, the patterns that let you rebuild most of it from a handful of rows, and follow the links to a full breakdown of each individual table.

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Last updated on July 23, 2026 13 min read

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The Master Grid: Tables 1 To 20

This single grid is every table from 1 to 20 at once. To find any product, pick the row for one number and the column for the other; where they cross is the answer. So row 7, column 8 reads 56 — and so does row 8, column 7.

× 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40
3 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48 51 54 57 60
4 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80
5 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100
6 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 78 84 90 96 102 108 114 120
7 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84 91 98 105 112 119 126 133 140
8 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96 104 112 120 128 136 144 152 160
9 9 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90 99 108 117 126 135 144 153 162 171 180
10 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200
11 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 110 121 132 143 154 165 176 187 198 209 220
12 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 132 144 156 168 180 192 204 216 228 240
13 13 26 39 52 65 78 91 104 117 130 143 156 169 182 195 208 221 234 247 260
14 14 28 42 56 70 84 98 112 126 140 154 168 182 196 210 224 238 252 266 280
15 15 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 210 225 240 255 270 285 300
16 16 32 48 64 80 96 112 128 144 160 176 192 208 224 240 256 272 288 304 320
17 17 34 51 68 85 102 119 136 153 170 187 204 221 238 255 272 289 306 323 340
18 18 36 54 72 90 108 126 144 162 180 198 216 234 252 270 288 306 324 342 360
19 19 38 57 76 95 114 133 152 171 190 209 228 247 266 285 304 323 342 361 380
20 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400

How To Read And Use The Grid

The grid is a lookup table, and the single most useful thing to notice is that it is symmetric, meaning a×b equals b×a. The number where row 6 meets column 13 (78) is identical to where row 13 meets column 6. That mirror line runs along the diagonal of square numbers — 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, all the way to 400 — and it means you never have to learn a fact twice. Master the upper half and the lower half comes free.

The next thing to use is the easy anchors. Columns 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 are almost no work: ones stay the same, twos double, fives end in 0 or 5, tens add a zero, and twenties double-and-add-a-zero. Lean on those columns to triangulate any product near them.

Tables 1 To 20 In Words

Young learners often meet a table as a spoken chant before they read it off a grid, and saying a row aloud is one of the fastest ways to lock it in. Each row of the grid above can be read as a sentence — "one times the number is the number, two times the number is …" — all the way to ten.

For example, The 7 row reads "one times 7 is 7, two times 7 is 14, three times 7 is 21," and so on to "ten times 7 is 70." Pick the table you find hardest, read its row aloud in this spoken form a few times, then test yourself against the grid.

How to Learn Any Times Table (Patterns, Not Memorizing)

Bhanzu teaches the few patterns that generate the tables rather than drilling 200 separate facts into recall. Once you see how the grid is built, you can reason out any product you forget instead of hunting for it from memory. That is the number sense and mental agility you carry forward into algebra.

A whole grid of twenty tables rests on a handful of structural ideas:

Understand these few patterns and you can rebuild any of the 400 facts in the grid rather than store each one. The full mechanics of each table live on the individual pages below.

Where Tables From 1 To 20 Show Up

Strong recall of tables 1 to 20 quietly powers most everyday arithmetic. Splitting a restaurant bill, scaling a recipe up for guests, working out unit prices in a shop, reading a bus timetable, estimating travel time — each is a multiplication or division that runs faster when the facts are automatic. The reach goes well beyond school: long division, fractions, percentages, and ratios all sit on top of fluent times tables, which is why teachers treat them as the bedrock of number sense rather than as a memorization chore.

Why Learn Tables Past 12?

This is the question students and parents ask most, and it is worth answering plainly. Tables up to 12 cover the school basics, but the 13-to-20 range builds genuine fluency. Someone who has stretched their recall from 12 to 16 or 20 reports a real shift — multiplication algorithms feel lighter, estimation gets sharper, and mental arithmetic stops being a bottleneck.

You are not memorising for its own sake; you are removing the small pauses that otherwise interrupt every bigger calculation. And you do not learn the high tables one fact at a time — you learn the patterns that generate them, which is the whole point of the next section.

How To Learn The Higher Tables (13 to 20)

The low tables are worth memorising outright. The high tables are better learned by decomposition — breaking a hard number into easy pieces you already know, multiplying each, and adding.

Split into a ten and a units digit

Any teen table splits cleanly into the 10s and the remainder.

For 14 × 6: that is (10 × 6) + (4 × 6) = 60 + 24 = 84.

For 17 × 8: (10 × 8) + (7 × 8) = 80 + 56 = 136.

Build the round-ten tables from their roots

The 20 table is the 2 table with a zero; extend the same idea and the table of 30 is the 3 table with a zero. Round numbers are always the easiest entry points.

Use the factor links between tables

Many tables are just doublings or triplings of smaller ones: 16 is double 8, 18 is double 9, 24 is double 12, and 25 is a quarter of 100. Learn one table and you get its relatives at a discount.

Every Individual Table, Broken Down

Each table below has its own walkthrough — the chart, the fastest method, the patterns, and the common mistakes. Start with whichever one you find hardest.

What Students Get Wrong With Tables 1 To 20

Mistake 1: Trying to brute-force the high tables

Where it slips in: When a student treats 17 × 8 as a brand-new fact to memorise instead of a sum of two facts they already hold.

Don't do this: Staring at 17 × 8 and guessing.

The correct way: Split it: (10 × 8) + (7 × 8) = 80 + 56 = 136. The high tables are decomposition, not memorisation.

Mistake 2: Learning each fact twice

Where it slips in: Students drill 8 × 13 and later drill 13 × 8 as if they were separate, doubling their workload.

Don't do this: Treating a×b and b×a as two facts.

The correct way: They are the same fact — the grid is symmetric. Learn 8 × 13 = 104 once and 13 × 8 = 104 comes with it.

Conclusion

A Practical Next Step

Print or screenshot the master grid, then cover everything except the header row and column and try to rebuild a few rows from the patterns. When a particular table fights back, click straight through to its own page above — the 7 Times Table and 8 Times Table tables are the usual culprits — and work the method there before returning to the grid. For classroom-tested approaches to building this fluency, Bhanzu's guide on how to teach multiplication is the place to go next.