What is the 2 times table?

The 2 times table is the list of answers when you multiply by 2: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24. These are also the first twelve multiples of 2.

What is the trick for the 2 times table?

Double it. To multiply by 2, double the other number: add it to itself. For example, 2 × 8: 8 + 8 = 16.

How do you learn the 2 times table fast?

It is usually the very first table, right after counting in 2s. Learn the trick and say the table forwards and backwards. Then practice mixed-up facts for 5 minutes a day, until each answer comes in about 3 seconds.

What are the hardest facts in the 2 times table?

For most children: 2 × 7 = 14, 2 × 9 = 18, 2 × 12 = 24. Practice those first with the trainer on this page.

2 × 12 = 24. And 2 × 11 = 22.

2 times table

The 2 times table (table of 2) from 2 × 1 to 2 × 12, with a trick, practice and a 1-minute challenge. Parent help is below.

🧒 Kids: learn the 2 times table!

Read the table out loud. Then tap Practice and answer the questions!

▶ Practice the 2 table ⏱️ 1-minute challenge

2 × 1 = 2
2 × 2 = 4
2 × 3 = 6
2 × 4 = 8
2 × 5 = 10
2 × 6 = 12
2 × 7 = 14
2 × 8 = 16
2 × 9 = 18
2 × 10 = 20
2 × 11 = 22
2 × 12 = 24

Bigger: 2 × 13 to 2 × 20

2 × 13 = 26
2 × 14 = 28
2 × 15 = 30
2 × 16 = 32
2 × 17 = 34
2 × 18 = 36
2 × 19 = 38
2 × 20 = 40

💡 Trick: Double it. 2 × 8 → 8 + 8 = 16

⏱️ 1-minute challenge 🃏 2 times table flash cards 🎮 Play a times table game

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For parents and teachers ↓

This part is for grown-ups. It has the patterns that make the 2 times table easy, pictures to draw, what to say, common mistakes, questions with answers and a free worksheet.

The trick for the 2 times table: double it

To multiply by 2, double the other number: add it to itself.

2 × 8: 8 + 8 = 16
2 × 12: 12 + 12 = 24

Patterns in the 2 times table

Every answer is even.
The ones digits repeat 2, 4, 6, 8, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 0.
Each answer is half of the matching answer in the 4 times table.
Counting in 2s is the 2 times table: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12…

Saying the table out loud helps too: two times one is 2, two times two is 4…

Two times one is 2.
Two times two is 4.
Two times three is 6.
Two times four is 8.
Two times five is 10.

See the 2 times table

Draw these with your child. Each one shows that multiplying by 2 means counting equal groups of 2.

An array: 3 rows of 2 is 6. Turn it and it shows 2 × 3.

Skip counting: 4 jumps of 2 land on 8, so 4 × 2 = 8.

Multiples of 2 shaded on a hundred chart. Look for the pattern.

Facts you already know

It is usually the very first table, right after counting in 2s.

Because it is one of the first tables, most facts are new. Every one of them follows the pattern above. Each fact learned here also gives a fact in a later table for free: once you know 2 × 7 = 14, you also know 7 × 2.

The table also works backwards as division: 6 ÷ 2 = 3 · 14 ÷ 2 = 7 · 24 ÷ 2 = 12.

In real life: Shoes, socks, eyes, hands and bicycle wheels all come in 2s. How many socks on 3 pairs of socks? 3 × 2 = 6.

Common mistakes with the 2 times table

✗Adding instead of multiplying: 2 × 6 = 8.✓ Say “2 groups of 6” and draw two groups of 6 dots.

✗Losing count after 20 when counting in 2s.✓ Use the hundred chart below: every second square is shaded.

What to say to your child

A short script for your first 2 times table session. Pause after each line and let your child answer.

“Put your hands up. How many hands? 2 groups of 5 fingers: how many fingers?” (10.)
“Doubling is the 2 times table. What is double 7?” (14.) “So 2 × 7 = 14.”
“Count in 2s with me up to 24. Clap on every number.”
“If 2 × 6 is 12, what is 6 × 2?” (Also 12: the turn-around.)

2 times table questions (answers below)

2 × 7
2 × 9
2 × 12
2 × 4
2 × 9
2 × ? = 12
? × 2 = 22
16 ÷ 2
How many socks on 7 pairs of socks?
10 socks are shared equally into groups of 2. How many groups?

Show the answers

14
18
24
8
18
6
11
8
14 socks
5

The 2 times table as division facts

Every multiplication fact has a division fact hiding inside it. If 2 × 6 = 12, then 12 shared into groups of 2 makes 6 groups. Here are the division facts for the table of 2:

2 ÷ 2 = 1
4 ÷ 2 = 2
6 ÷ 2 = 3
8 ÷ 2 = 4
10 ÷ 2 = 5
12 ÷ 2 = 6
14 ÷ 2 = 7
16 ÷ 2 = 8
18 ÷ 2 = 9
20 ÷ 2 = 10
22 ÷ 2 = 11
24 ÷ 2 = 12

Four facts with the same three numbers make a fact family.

2 × 7 = 14 · 7 × 2 = 14 · 14 ÷ 2 = 7 · 14 ÷ 7 = 2

Learning the table this way means your child learns division at the same time. To check a division answer, multiply back (see check division with multiplication).

Multiples of 2

The answers in the 2 times table are the multiples of 2. They go on forever: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16… Every multiple of 2 can be split into equal groups of 2 with nothing left over.

Is it a multiple of 2? A number is in the 2 times table if it is even: it ends in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8. Try it on 346: it is 2 × 173. Older children use these tests to find factors and multiples and to simplify fractions.

2 times table word problems

Word problems show your child when to use the table. Read each one aloud, ask “how many groups, and how many in each group?”, then multiply.

Groups to total. How many socks on 6 pairs of socks? There are 6 groups of 2, so 6 × 2 = 12 socks.
Total to groups. 18 socks are put into groups of 2. How many groups? Ask “2 times what is 18?” The answer is 9.
Two steps. Count the socks on 4 pairs of socks, then on 3 more. That is 8 + 6 = 14. Quicker: 4 + 3 = 7 groups, and 7 × 2 = 14.

For more practice, see multiplication word problems.

A 5-day plan for the 2 times table

Day 1: learn the trick (double it) and say the table forwards.
Day 2: say it backwards, then answer the practice questions in order.
Day 3: mixed order, with extra time on 2 × 7 and 2 × 9.
Day 4: missing numbers and division: 2 × ? = 16 and 16 ÷ 2.
Day 5: the 1-minute challenge, then the worksheet.

Five minutes a day is enough. A fact is learned when the answer comes in about 3 seconds without counting. Come back to the table once a week after that, so it stays fresh.