Multiples worksheets

Factors break a number apart; multiples build it up. These free printable worksheets practice multiples three ways — writing the first five, picking them out of a row of numbers, and deciding yes or no — so a child meets the idea from every side before least common multiples arrive.

Multiples
Multiples worksheet — Numbers to 40, free printable with answer key

The answer key prints on a separate page.

What's on this sheet

The listing sheet gives a number and a long line: write the first five multiples, in order. It is skip counting with a name, and doing it in writing is what turns a chanted times table into something a child can produce on demand. The numbers themselves are what the level control sizes — the multiples run past that ceiling, because that is what multiples do.

Why this sheet works

The circling sheet is the recognition half. Each row shows a number in a box and six candidates, and the child rings the ones that belong to it. Because most of the row is a genuine rejection, it cannot be answered by pattern-matching — every number has to be tested. The yes-or-no sheet asks the same question one at a time, and its wrong answers are built as near misses, a multiple nudged off by one or two, so guessing does not pay.

How this one works

Multiples of 8

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  1. Multiples of 8 are what you get COUNTING IN 8s — they start at 8 and only get bigger. (Factors are the other way: they go into 8 and are never bigger than it. The two words are swapped more often than either is misunderstood.)
  2. So just count: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40. Each one is 8 more than the last — no dividing, no testing.