Year 4 · Column methods and times tables
Times tables up to 12 × 12
Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
Key learning points
- • Build from facts you own
- • The tricky corner
- • Every fact is four facts
- • Getting faster
This lesson at a glance
- 20 minutes
- 19 parts to scroll through
- 4 quick checks
- No marked quiz yet
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
Scroll down — the lesson carries on below
Watch & discover
Part 1 of 19
Watch first
Times tables up to 12 × 12
A catchy song that helps you learn your 8 times table fast.
Do it for real
The practicals below use what the film shows, with a full method you can follow at home.
In a nutshell
Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
What you already know
Part 2 of 19
Before we start
What you already know
You know the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables from Year 3.
Key words
Part 3 of 19
Key words
Words you'll need today
- multiple
- A number in a times table, like 24 in the 6 times table.
- factor
- A number that divides exactly into another, like 4 is a factor of 12.
- product
- The answer when you multiply.
Learning cycle
Part 4 of 19
Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 — Facts you can build
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
Part 5 of 19
Learn
Build from facts you own
You do not have to learn 144 separate facts. If you know 5 × 7 = 35, then 6 × 7 is one more seven: 42. If you know 10 × 7 = 70, then 9 × 7 is one seven less: 63, and 11 × 7 is one seven more: 77. Building from tens and fives is faster than counting up.
Explore the idea
Part 6 of 19
Learn
The tricky corner
Most people find 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 hardest. Learn these anchors: 6 × 7 = 42, 7 × 8 = 56, 6 × 8 = 48, 7 × 7 = 49, 12 × 12 = 144. For the 9s, the digits of the answer always add to 9: 9 × 6 = 54, and 5 + 4 = 9.
Quick check
Part 7 of 19
Quick check
7 × 8 =
Quick check
Part 8 of 19
Quick check
If 10 × 6 = 60, what is 9 × 6?
Reset break
Part 9 of 19
Pause
That's sitting 1 of 2 done
Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
Part 10 of 19
Learning cycle 2 of 2
Part 2 — Turning them around
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
Explore the idea
Part 11 of 19
Learn
Every fact is four facts
From 7 × 8 = 56 you also get 8 × 7 = 56, 56 ÷ 7 = 8 and 56 ÷ 8 = 7. That means learning one fact really gives you four. Multiplication can be done in either order, and division undoes it.
Explore the idea
Part 12 of 19
Learn
Getting faster
Speed comes from short, regular practice, not long sessions. Two or three minutes of quick recall a day beats half an hour once a week. Track which facts you hesitate on and practise just those — hesitation, not being wrong, is the thing to hunt down.
Quick check
Part 13 of 19
Quick check
72 ÷ 8 =
Quick check
Part 14 of 19
Quick check
12 × 12 =
Common mix-ups
Part 15 of 19
Common mix-ups
Things people often get wrong
- Mixing up 6 × 8 and 7 × 8.
- Counting up in ones instead of recalling the fact.
- Thinking 6 × 7 and 7 × 6 might be different answers.
Challenge round
Part 16 of 19
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 17 of 19
Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
____ can be done in either order, and division undoes it.
Two or three minutes of quick ____ a day beats half an hour once a week.
Mastery quiz
Part 18 of 19
No quiz for this one
This lesson has no marked quiz attached yet.
Lesson round-up
Part 19 of 19
Lesson round-up
Ready when you are
Quiz score
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Best run
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Luna: 0 out of 4 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?
Ask LunaDo the work
Your written work for this lesson
This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.
The cost of a school trip
A school is planning a trip to a wildlife park. The coach costs £480 however many people go. Entry costs £9.50 for each pupil and each adult goes free. The school says every pupil must pay the same amount, and the trip must not lose money.
If 60 pupils go, the coach works out at £8 each, so the total for each pupil is £17.50. If only 40 pupils go, the coach works out at £12 each, so the price rises to £21.50. The teacher explains that the coach is a fixed cost and the entry is a cost per person — which is why the price per pupil changes when the number changes.
The school decides to charge £20 and to use anything left over for a second trip later in the year.
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Reading questions
- Work out the total cost of the trip if 50 pupils go.
- Show why the price per pupil falls when more pupils go, using numbers.
- At £20 each, how many pupils must go before the trip makes money? Show your working.
Working out
Working outDo the practice questions on paper, showing every step — not just the answer. Mark them yourself and circle anything you got wrong.
10–15 questions
Worked example, explained
WritingCopy one question out and write underneath, in words, why each step works.
1 question, 4–5 sentences
Problem in words
Working outWrite your own real-life problem that uses today's method, then solve it.
1 problem + solution
Saved as you type.
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