Table of 6

How to say the table of 6

Six one is 6, six twos are 12, six threes are 18, six fours are 24, six fives are 30, six sixes are 36, six sevens are 42, six eights are 48, six nines are 54, six tens are 60.

In Hindi

छह एकम छह, छह दूनी बारह, छह तिया अठारह, छह चौके चौबीस, छह पंजे तीस, छह छक्के छत्तीस, छह सत्ते बयालीस, छह अट्ठे अड़तालीस, छह नवें चौवन, छह दहाई साठ।

This is the traditional chant used in Hindi-medium schools. The words for the multiplier (एकम, दूनी, तिया and so on) vary a little from region to region. All the pahade from 2 to 20 are on the Hindi pahade page.

A quick way to work it out

Use the table of 5 and add one more lot. For 6 × 7, five sevens are 35, and one more 7 makes 42. Another way is to triple and then double: 3 × 7 = 21, doubled is 42. With an even number there is a neat pattern: 6 × 2 = 12, 6 × 4 = 24, 6 × 6 = 36, 6 × 8 = 48. The answer ends in the number you multiplied.

Patterns in the table of 6

• Last digit. The last digits run 6, 2, 8, 4 and 0 and then start again, a cycle of five. All of them are even, so no answer in the table of 6 can be odd.
• Odd and even. 6 is even, so every answer is even, whatever you multiply by.
• Digit totals. Add the digits of each answer until one digit is left, and you get 6, 3 and 9, repeating. Only 3, 6 and 9 appear, because 6 is a multiple of 3.
• Steps of 6. Each answer is 6 more than the one above it. So if 6 × 7 slips your mind, take 6 × 6 = 36 and add 6 to get 42.
• Total of the first ten. Add the first ten answers and you get 330. That is 55 × 6, because 1 + 2 + 3 and so on up to 10 is 55.

How the table of 6 is built

6 is not prime: it can be written as 2 × 3. So its table can be built from a smaller one. For example 6 × 6 is 2 × 18, and 3 × 6 = 18, so the answer is 2 × 18 = 36. The square of 6 is 6 × 6 = 36. On a multiplication chart the squares lie on the diagonal line from top left to bottom right.

How much is really new? Because 6 × 3 is the same as 3 × 6, a child who already knows the tables below 6 has met most of this one. Up to × 10, only 5 facts are new: 6 × 6, 6 × 7, 6 × 8, 6 × 9 and 6 × 10.

Where you meet 6

Eggs are sold by the half dozen, an insect has 6 legs and an over in cricket has 6 balls. A bowler who bowls 8 overs has bowled 6 × 8 = 48 balls.

Division facts from this table

Every line gives a division fact for free. From 6 × 7 = 42 you know that 42 ÷ 6 = 7 and 42 ÷ 7 = 6. To divide a number by 6, look for it in the answers above: 54 is on line 9, so 54 ÷ 6 = 9. More on this in division from tables.

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