Multiplication by 4 worksheets

About this worksheet

Double, then double again. 7 × 4 becomes double seven is fourteen, double fourteen is twenty-eight — two easy steps instead of one hard fact. This works for every entry in the table without exception, which makes the fours the best possible place for a child to learn that a hard fact can be broken into two facts they already have.

The reason it works is worth showing rather than asserting. Four rows of seven can be drawn, then a line drawn across the middle: two rows of seven above, two rows below. The array splits into two halves a child can already count, and the doubling strategy stops being a trick to remember and becomes something visible on paper.

This table is also where even numbers narrow. Every two fact is even; every four fact is not just even but a double of an even number, so the answers march 4, 8, 12, 16 in steps a child can hear. Print with the answer key, change the theme, or reopen the identical sheet later from its picnic basket code.