Multiply by 6 Worksheets with Answer Keys

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Six-times-table facts get drilled through roughly two dozen worksheet formats bundled into one packet: timed fact-recall sheets, a fill-in crossword, a joke-cracking code puzzle, matching and cut-and-paste answer sorting, two pages of word problems plus a page for writing original ones, a numbers word-search called Multiplication Search, a spiral equation puzzle called Math Spiral, a maze, three color-by-number pages, and cut-and-glue activities such as Apple Tree Math, Fruit Bowl Multiplication, Balloon Math, Kite Math, and Rocket Math. A 20-question timed test and a full fill-in multiplication chart round out the practice. Every activity, including the maze and story problems, has a matching answer-key page with the correct products already filled in. One leftover instruction line, evidently carried over from a shared times-table template, still tells teachers the packet helps students "practice the four times tables," even though the maze correctly says "multiples of six" and every fact in the file uses 6.

What's included

a page of x6 fact flashcards/reference (6x0 through 6x12)
timed "Multiply By 6!" speed-drill worksheets with facts in different orders
a fill-in crossword built from a spelled-out word bank of products
a "Crack the Code" joke worksheet using multiplication answers as a cipher
a "Matching!" line-matching worksheet and a "Cut and Paste" answer-sorting worksheet
two "Multiplication Story Problems" word-problem pages and a "Write Your Own Story Problems" page
a "Multiplication Search" numbers word-search puzzle and a "Math Spiral" equation puzzle
a fill-in 1-12 multiplication chart/table
a "Make a Multiplication Quilt" square activity
three "Color By Number" pages and a "Multiplication Maze"
a "Right and Wrong" equation-checking worksheet
cut-and-glue activities: Balloon Math, Kite Math, Rocket Math, Fruit Bowl Multiplication, Apple Tree Math
a 20-question timed "x6 Test"
a matching filled-in answer key for every one of the above activities

Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Recall six-times-table facts (6x0 through 6x12) fluently under timed conditions
Translate a word problem into a multiplication equation and solve it
Evaluate whether a given multiplication equation is correct, identifying miscalculated or reversed products
Complete a full 1-12 multiplication chart from memory or by calculation

Teaching tips

Use the timed "Multiply By 6!" sheets on separate days to track fluency growth, since each reorders the same facts differently rather than repeating one layout
Assign "Right and Wrong" as an error-analysis task, having students explain why a circled equation is correct or an X'd one is wrong, rather than just marking it
Save the cut-and-glue activities (Apple Tree Math, Fruit Bowl Multiplication, Kite Math) for a lower-stakes practice day, since they require scissors and glue rather than pencil-only work
Double-check the printed "How to Use This Resource" intro before reading it aloud to a class - it still says "practice the four times tables," leftover wording from what appears to be a shared multi-times-table template, even though every worksheet in this file is the 6s

Skills covered

Six-times-table recall — students solve products from 6 × 0 through 6 × 12 across varied practice pages.
Fact fluency — repeated timed sheets let students practice the 6s in different orders.
Multiplication application — story problems and visual activities require students to calculate products in context.
Equation checking — the Right and Wrong page asks students to sort correct equations from incorrect ones.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

The intro says this resource helps practice "the four times tables" - does that mean this file mixes in 4s content along with the 6s?

No. Every fact, worksheet, test question, and the maze itself ("Color all multiples of six") use the six times table throughout. Only the printed intro sentence still says "four," which is leftover wording that wasn't updated for this 6s edition.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

3.OA.A.1 — Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.
3.OA.A.3 — Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
3.OA.A.4 — Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 × ? = 48, 5 = � ÷ 3, 6 × 6 = ?.
3.OA.C.7 — Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.