"Of course!" said Alice. "We've done the twos and threes and fours

and fives and sixes and sevens and eights - "

"And we've done the tens, too. They were easy," boasted Andy.

"The nines are easy, too.

And we've done lots of them already anyway."

"Yes, that's right. We really only need to learn nine nines,"

said Alice.

Andy was very pleased.

"Is that right? Do we really know all the rest of it?"

"Of course we do," said Alice. "Look, we know nine twos."

"Yes, nine twos are eighteen. So two nines are eighteen as well."

"Exactly."

"Let's do the Nine Times Table then!" cried Andy.

"One lot of nine is nine! Two nines are eighteen!

Three nines are twenty seven and four nines are

thirty six," he shouted.

Alice went on.

"Five nines are forty five, six nines are fifty four,

seven nines are sixty three, eight nines are seventy two."

Andy and Alice both finished the last two.

"Nine nines are eighty one and ten nines are ninety!"

"Yee-hah! I know all my tables up to tens!" cried Andy.

"Next year I'm going to learn the elevens and twelves,"

said Alice.

"We'd better write out our Nines first," Andy said.

"Yes," agreed Alice. They wrote:

1 x 9 = 9
2 x 9 = 18
3 x 9 = 27
4 x 9 = 36
5 x 9 = 45
6 x 9 = 54
7 x 9 = 63
8 x 9 = 72
9 x 9 = 81
10 x 9 = 90
"Oh!" said Alice. "That's clever!"

"Yes," said Andy. "I can see the number pattern, too."

Can you see the number pattern in the answers?

Now you can get a big piece of paper

and write the Nine Times Table out yourself.

Use different colours for it.

Say the Nine Times Table again. Then you can try these.

Be careful because they are all jumbled up.

2 x 9 =
6 x 9 =
9 x 6 =
9 x 7 =
9 x 9 =
9 x 5 =
1 x 9 =
5 x 9 =
7 x 9 =
8 x 9 =
10 x 9 =
9 x 8 =
3 x 9 =
4 x 9 =
9 x 4 =
Write how many items altogether at the end of each row.

Now you know the nines.

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