Times Table of 2: The Doubles Ladder

This worksheet presents the times table of 2 as a complete ladder: 1×2, 2×2, 3×2, all the way to 10×2, each fact with an empty answer box beside it. The child climbs the ladder in order, multiplying and writing each product in its box. Because the whole table stands on one page in sequence, the answers reveal their own pattern as they appear: 2, 4, 6, 8 — every product even, every step the same size.

The 2s are the friendliest possible doorway into multiplication because the child already knows them by another name: doubles. 4×2 is just 4 plus 4; 7×2 is the double of 7 — facts most children have carried around since first-grade addition. Writing the ladder top to bottom converts that comfortable doubling knowledge into multiplication language, and it plants the habit that will organize every table to come: each row is the last row plus two more. Meeting multiplication first through something this familiar sends exactly the right message — the times tables are not new math to fear, they are old math wearing a new symbol.

Print the PDF free and run the ladder until it flows, then try it with the page turned over. The times table of 4 is the classic next move — after the 2s, the 4s are half the work, since every 4-fact is just a 2-fact doubled — and the table of 10 offers an even gentler victory in between.