Multiplication, missing numberTables through 12
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1 × 6 = 36
2 × 10 = 80
3 × 10 = 10
410 × = 120
5 × 7 = 7
63 × = 27
7 × 11 = 132
8 × 4 = 4
99 × = 45
106 × = 72
Missing factors worksheets
A missing factor turns a times-table fact into a division question without ever printing a division sign. These free printable worksheets hide one of the two factors up to 12 × 12, so a child has to work backwards from the product.
If they get stuck
Missing factors
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
7 × __ = 42 is 42 ÷ 7 wearing different clothes, and meeting it in this form first is what makes division feel like something already known rather than a new operation to learn. It is also exactly what third-grade standards ask for by name: determine the unknown number in a multiplication equation.
Why this sheet works
Either factor can be the hidden one, so a child cannot settle into always dividing by the number on the left. Reading the sentence properly — which number is known, which one is the product — is half of what the page trains, and it is the half that transfers to algebra.
How this one works
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Missing factors, step by step