Times Table of 4: Double the Twos

This worksheet works the times table of 4 as a full ladder — every fact from 1×4 to 10×4, each with its own answer box. The child climbs in order, multiplying and filling the boxes: 4, 8, 12, 16, on up to 40. Hidden inside the ladder is the best shortcut in the times tables: every 4-fact is a 2-fact doubled. 6×4? Take 6×2, which is 12, and double it — 24. The page rewards anyone who spots the trick, and teaching it outright is fair play.

The 4s carry a lesson bigger than one table: known facts can build unknown ones. A child who reaches this page owning the 2s already holds every answer here at one doubling's distance, and using that connection — rather than starting the memory work from zero — is genuine mathematical thinking, the derived-facts strategy that mathematicians and fast mental calculators use for life. With every answer double an even number, the 4s also extend the all-even parade begun by the 2s, another pattern worth noticing aloud. Doubling practice itself sharpens here too, since doubling 14 or 18 stretches a skill that began with doubling 6 and 7.

Print the PDF free and play both ways: answer 8×4 cold, then verify it by doubling 8×2. Climbing onward, the times table of 3 offers the contrast of pure memory work, and the table of 5 hands back a rhythm after the 4s' quiet logic.