How it works
Each color by multiplication worksheet is a 12 by 12 pixel picture with a times table fact in every square. It opens on tables 2, 3, 4 and 5. Tap any tables from 1 to 12, or switch to division.
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Multiplication coloring sheets need more than one table
A sheet has 144 squares. One table holds only 23 problems, so each appears about 6 times. Tables 2, 3, 4 and 5, the opening choice, hold 80. Quick settings offers 2, 5 and 10, then 3, 4 and 6, then 7, 8 and 9, with 63 problems each. All 12 tables hold 144.
Both orders, one color per product
These multiplication worksheets color by number in one sense: the number is the product. A square may say 7 × 8 or 8 × 7, and 12 is the same crayon in 2 × 6, 3 × 4 and 4 × 3. On coloring multiplication worksheets the picture is the check: a wrong product leaves one odd square inside a block of color.
- The other factor runs from 1 to 12: the 12 times table reaches 144, the 2 times table 24.
- With white squares left blank, the Pencil (6 colors) has 66 facts and the Butterfly (4 colors) has 104.
- Press New problems between prints and each multiplication color by number printable keeps the Robot and changes the facts.
Questions and answers
Are there free color by number multiplication and division worksheets here?
Yes. Set Problems to Division or to Multiply and divide. Division by tables 2, 3, 4 and 5 gives 48 problems with quotients from 1 to 12. A single table gives only 12, and the line under the sheet then says to add a table.
What grade are these sheets for?
Grade 3. Common Core asks that by the end of that year pupils know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers, so color multiplication worksheets fit from the first tables on. Tables 10, 11 and 12 go past one-digit numbers; add them last.
Can I make a sheet for one times table?
Yes, but color by number multiplication sheets work better with three. One table, such as the threes, holds 23 facts, so each fills about 6 of the 144 squares. Tables 3, 6 and 9 together hold 63.