Multiplication by 16 worksheets

Sixteen is doubling four times over, so its table is the eights doubled — or the twos doubled three more times. These free printable worksheets cover 16 × 1 through 16 × 20 for a child ready to go past the traditional grid.

Multiplication by 16
Multiplication by 16 worksheet — 16 × 1 to 16 × 20, free printable with answer key

The answer key prints on a separate page.

What's on this sheet

Take the eight fact and double it. 16 × 7 starts at 8 × 7 = 56, and doubling gives 112. 16 × 9 is 72 doubled, 144. A child who is shaky on the eights can go one step further back: double the four fact twice, since 16 is 4 × 4.

Why this sheet works

Tens plus sixes is the other way in: 16 × 7 is 70 plus 42, which is 112 again. For the facts above ten the doubling route stays tidier — 16 × 15 is 120 doubled, 240 — and 16 × 20 = 320 is simply 16 × 10 doubled.

How this one works

11 × 16

11×16
11 × 16=16 × 11
11 × 5=55
11 × 11=121
55+121=176
11×16=176
  1. 11 × 16 means 11 groups with 16 in each one — 11 rows of 16. The answer counts everything in all of them, not one row.
  2. Added up, that is 16 written 11 times — that is a lot of adding. Turn it round: 16 × 11 is the same amount, and it is only 16 lots of 11 to add instead.
  3. If 11 × 16 will not come, split the 16 at five: 11 × 5 = 55, and 11 × 11 = 121. Together that is 55 + 121 = 176.
  4. So 11 × 16 = 176.