Table of 8

How to say the table of 8

Eight one is 8, eight twos are 16, eight threes are 24, eight fours are 32, eight fives are 40, eight sixes are 48, eight sevens are 56, eight eights are 64, eight nines are 72, eight tens are 80.

In Hindi

आठ एकम आठ, आठ दूनी सोलह, आठ तिया चौबीस, आठ चौके बत्तीस, आठ पंजे चालीस, आठ छक्के अड़तालीस, आठ सत्ते छप्पन, आठ अट्ठे चौंसठ, आठ नवें बहत्तर, आठ दहाई अस्सी।

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

Double three times. For 8 × 6: 12, 24, 48. Or take ten times and remove two lots: 8 × 7 is 70 − 14 = 56. Both ways are worth knowing. Doubling suits small numbers, and the "ten times minus two times" way is quicker for larger ones such as 8 × 19 = 190 − 38 = 152.

Patterns in the table of 8

• Last digit. The last digits run 8, 6, 4, 2 and 0 and then start again, a cycle of five. All of them are even, so no answer in the table of 8 can be odd.
• Odd and even. 8 is even, so every answer is even, whatever you multiply by.
• Digit totals. Add the digits of each answer until one digit is left. For the first nine answers you get 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 9: every digit from 1 to 9, once each. This happens for every number that is not a multiple of 3.
• Steps of 8. Each answer is 8 more than the one above it. So if 8 × 7 slips your mind, take 8 × 6 = 48 and add 8 to get 56.
• Total of the first ten. Add the first ten answers and you get 440. That is 55 × 8, because 1 + 2 + 3 and so on up to 10 is 55.

How the table of 8 is built

8 is not prime: it can be written as 2 × 4. So its table can be built from a smaller one. For example 8 × 6 is 2 × 24, and 4 × 6 = 24, so the answer is 2 × 24 = 48. The square of 8 is 8 × 8 = 64. On a multiplication chart the squares lie on the diagonal line from top left to bottom right.

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

Where you meet 8

A spider has 8 legs and an octopus has 8 arms. A chessboard is 8 squares long and 8 squares wide, so it has 8 × 8 = 64 squares.

Division facts from this table

Every line gives a division fact for free. From 8 × 7 = 56 you know that 56 ÷ 8 = 7 and 56 ÷ 7 = 8. To divide a number by 8, look for it in the answers above: 72 is on line 9, so 72 ÷ 8 = 9. More on this in division from tables.

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