"I like maths," said Alice. "Numbers are interesting."
"We have to learn the Eight Times Table," groaned Andy.
"This is going to be hard."
"No," disagreed Alice. "All the answers will be even numbers."
"How do you know that?" asked Andy?
Do YOU know how Alice knew they would all be even?
That's right! Because eight is even, eights lots of anything
will be even too.
(Unless it's eight lots of ZERO - and ANYTHING TIMES ZERO
IS ALWAYS ZERO!)
"Anyway," Alice went on. "We already know lots of the eights."
"That's right," said Andy. "We know up to seven times eight.
That's going to make it lots easier!"
Alice made rows of smiley faces.
You may print this all out and then
you can write how many altogether
at the end of each line.
(Remember that you are really just counting by eights.)
I hope the last number you wrote was 80!
Alice started to say the Eight Times Table.
"We know lots of this one already. Once eight is eight,
two eights is the same as eight twos, and that's sixteen.
Three eights is eight threes - twenty four!"
"Right." Andy went on. "Four eights is thirty two, five eights
is the same as eight fives - forty!
This is easy. Six eights are forty eight."
"Seven eights are fifty six and eight eights are sixty four.
Nine eights are - um - seventy two, and ten eights are - "
"Eighty!" yelled Andy. "We know them all, Alice!"
"That's right. Now we need to write them out."
1 x 8 = 8
2 x 8 = 16
3 x 8 = 24
4 x 8 = 32
5 x 8 = 40
6 x 8 = 48
7 x 8 = 56
8 x 8 = 64
9 x 8 = 72
10 x 8 = 80
Get a large piece of paper and write your eight times
table out on it. Use different colours for the numbers.
Draw pictures if you want.
Now try these. Be careful because they are all jumbled up.
5 x 8 =
2 x 8 =
7 x 8 =
10 x 8 =
6 x 8 =
3 x 8 =
4 x 8 =
8 x 8 =
8 x 5 =
8 x 2 =
8 x 7 =
8 x 10 =
8 x 6 =
8 x 3 =
8 x 4 =
8 x 9 =
1 x 8 =
8 x 0 =
3 x 8 =
9 x 8 =
Congratulations!
Alice and Andy aren't the only ones
who know their Eight Times Table.
Now you do, too.
Make sure you practise it at home and at school.
