Multiplication by 8 worksheets

About this worksheet

Double, double, double. 8 × 6 runs six, twelve, twenty-four, forty-eight — three easy steps to a fact most children find hard to recall cold. The chain is longer than the one for the fours, so it is slower, but slow-and-correct beats fast-and-guessed while a table is still being learned, and speed arrives on its own with repetition.

The other way in is subtraction from the tens. 8 × 7 is 10 × 7 = 70 minus two sevens, which is 56. This is worth having alongside the doubling chain because it is quicker for the larger facts, and because it is the same move that makes the nine times table easy — teaching the two tables as one idea rather than two.

The answers themselves have a quiet pattern: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, where the tens digit climbs by one roughly every other step and the ones digit cycles 8, 6, 4, 2, 0 twice over. Noticing the cycle gives a child a way to check their own work. Print with the answer key or reopen the sheet from its picnic basket code.