Times Table of 10: The Place-Value Table

This worksheet runs the times table of 10 as a full ladder — 1×10 through 10×10, answer boxes down the side — and lands on the grandest product a beginning table-learner meets: 100. The child fills the boxes in order and watches the tidiest pattern in multiplication unfold: 10, 20, 30, 40, each answer simply the row number wearing a zero.

It would be easy to dismiss the 10s as too simple to practice, and that would miss what they are really teaching. The pattern the child discovers — multiplying by ten shifts a digit one place to the left and fills the gap with zero — is place value in action, the exact mechanism behind our whole way of writing numbers. A child who sees why 7×10 must be 70, rather than just memorizing that it is, has grasped something that will power mental math for years: 30×4, 700+50, and eventually decimals all lean on this one insight. The 10s are also the confidence table — ten quick wins in a row — which makes this the perfect page for a day when multiplication needs to feel good.

Print the PDF free and ask the magic question afterward: 'what does the zero do?' The times table of 5 pairs perfectly — every 10-fact is a 5-fact doubled — and the table of 2 completes the trio of pattern-rich starter tables.