Print a times table grid, or a worksheet with its answer key

Switch to the practice worksheet, leave "Print an answer key" on, and print. The key is not an option that appends answers to the bottom of the sheet — it starts on a fresh page every time, because a worksheet with the answers visible on the same piece of paper is not a worksheet. Technically that is a forced page break on the last question sheet rather than a hope that the content happens to fill the page; the break is in the document, so it survives whatever your print dialog is set to. If your worksheet runs to two pages, the key starts after both of them. The key prints the whole fact with the missing number in bold — 6 × 7 = 42, with the 7 in bold if that was the blank — rather than a bare column of numbers, so you never have to count down the page to work out which answer belongs to which question. That matters most on a mixed sheet, where the answer to question 12 might be a factor rather than a product.

It is a convention, and which convention you grew up with depends on where you went to school. Twelve is standard in the UK, in Malaysia and across much of the Commonwealth, and the usual explanation given is the twelve-based units that were in daily use when the convention formed — twelve inches in a foot, twelve pence in a shilling, and the dozen as a unit of trade. Ten is standard in most of continental Europe and in North America, where the argument is that the decimal system makes anything past ten a matter of place value rather than a new fact to learn. Neither is right, and this page will print either, or anything up to 20. Two practical notes if you go past 12. The grid always stays square, so a 1–20 grid has 441 cells and each one is about 7.6 mm across, with the numbers set to match. And a 20 × 20 grid contains 400 products, of which only 210 are distinct once you notice that 7 × 13 and 13 × 7 are the same fact — which is the single most useful thing to point out about any multiplication grid.

Click any cell and its row and column light up all the way back to the header numbers, so a finger can be traced across 7 and down 8 to land on 56. Click the same square again and it clears. It works on a phone or an interactive whiteboard as well as with a mouse, which is why it is a click rather than a hover — hover does not exist on a touchscreen, and a highlight you cannot reach on the device in the room is not a feature. Yes, it prints. That is deliberate rather than an oversight: a grid handed out with one fact already marked is a reasonable thing to want. The highlight is grey rather than a colour because most classroom and staffroom printers are black and white, and a pale colour tint often comes out as no tint at all. If you do not want it on the printout, clear it before you print.

It prints the same square with the row and column headers in place and every product cell empty. It is the grid as an exercise rather than a reference — filled in from memory, or filled in a few columns at a time. Two things are worth knowing before you print a stack of them. The empty grid is the same size as the full one, which means each cell is about 12 mm across at 1–12, and handwritten three-digit numbers in a 12 mm box are cramped; a range of 1–10 gives noticeably more room. And the tint on the diagonal stays on unless you switch it off, which marks out the square numbers — 1, 4, 9, 16 and so on — and is either a helpful landmark or a hint you would rather not give, depending on what you are doing. Both settings sit next to each other in the Grid panel.

It depends on the layout and the number of columns, and the page tells you as you change them. With questions on one line and three columns, 45 fit on an A4 sheet. Drop to two columns and the rows get wider but there are fewer of them; go to four and you get more per page with less room to write between them. The column layout — the one written out vertically with a rule to work under — takes roughly twice the height per question, so about half as many fit. Ask for more than one sheet holds and the worksheet continues onto a second, third and so on, up to 200 questions. Every sheet repeats the title and the Name / Date / Score line, which is there so that pages can still be matched to each other after thirty of them come back in a pile. The heading is a fixed height on purpose: if it grew with a long title, the last row of questions on each page would silently move to the next one.

They are shuffled from a fixed starting point, which is a deliberate and slightly unusual choice. A genuinely random shuffle would produce different questions each time the page loaded — including a different set on the version of the page that search engines are served, which would not match what you see. So the shuffle runs from a numbered starting point that begins at the same value for everybody, and "New questions" moves it on by one. Practically: the first sheet you see is the same first sheet everybody sees, and every press of "New questions" gives you a genuinely different arrangement. The shuffle itself deals every fact in your selection once before any fact repeats, so if you ask for 30 questions from a pool of 36 facts, all 30 are different. Ask for more than the pool holds and it deals a fresh shuffled round, which is when repeats appear — and the page says so before you print.

Almost always the Scale setting in the print dialog. Chrome, Edge and Safari all remember what you last used, so "Fit to page" left over from a different document scales this one too, and because it fits the content to the printable area rather than the paper, it does not scale evenly in both directions on every printer. The grid is the one document here where that is immediately visible, because you can see that the cells are wider than they are tall. Set Scale to 100% or "Default" and Paper to A4. The second cause is paper size: printing an A4 layout on US Letter, which is shorter and wider, produces the same symptom. Everything on this page is defined in millimetres — the cell size, the margins, the rule under the heading — precisely so that the printed result matches the preview, but no page can override a scale factor applied after it hands the document over.

Use them freely — print them, photocopy them, hand them out, put the grid on the wall. There is nothing to attribute and no licence to accept, because a multiplication table is arithmetic and nobody owns it. What we would ask you not to do is take the output of this page, put it behind a paywall as a "worksheet pack" and sell it as your own product; that is not a legal restriction we are placing on the numbers, it is simply what the tool is for. If you want a version with your school name on it, put it in the Title field — it prints at the top of every sheet, including the answer key.

No. The whole page is static files and the sheets are laid out by your own browser, so there is no server to send anything to — the title you type, the tables you pick and the questions that come out of them exist only on this device, and none of it is written to storage either. Closing the tab loses your settings, which is the honest trade for that claim; setting them again is a few clicks. The one thing that is remembered is which of the form panels you left open, which is a handful of true-and-false switches and nothing you wrote. One thing worth stating plainly rather than softening: this site carries Google ads, which are a third-party request the same as on any ad-supported page. They never see what you type, and they are hidden from the printed sheet.