Tables from 20 to 25: Times & Multiplication Tables

Multiplication Tables From 20 To 25

All six tables sit in the grid below. Read down a column for one number's full table, or read across a row to compare the six numbers at the same multiplier. The cell where a column meets a row is the product.

How Do You Read These Tables?

Each column is one number's times table, top to bottom. The 23 column runs $23 \times 1 = 23$, $23 \times 2 = 46$, down to $23 \times 10 = 230$. The left number is the group size, the multiplier is how many groups, and the cell is the total.

The 20 and 25 columns are the reference points. The 20 table is the 2 table with a zero, and the 25 table steps in clean 25s. The four tables between them differ from 20 by only a small units digit, so fix the 20 value and step up by that difference to reach 21, 22, 23, or 24.

How To Learn The Tables From 20 To 25 (Patterns, Not Memorizing)

Bhanzu teaches the few patterns that generate a table rather than drilling separate facts into recall. Once you see that these six numbers are all a 20 with a little added, or a double of something smaller, you can rebuild any row by reasoning instead of memorising it - and that reasoning is the number sense algebra later leans on.

The band comes down to a few ideas:

• Start from 20 and add the units. Every number here is $20 + k$, so $(20 + k) \times n = 20n + kn$. For $23 \times 6$, that is $(20 \times 6) + (3 \times 6) = 120 + 18 = 138$. The 20 times table does the heavy lifting and the small part finishes it.

• The 20 table is the 2 table with a zero. Since $20 = 2 \times 10$, every 20 product is the matching 2 product with a 0 added: $2 \times 8 = 16$, so $20 \times 8 = 160$.

• Double a smaller table for the even numbers. $22 = 2 \times 11$ and $24 = 2 \times 12$, so take the 11 or 12 table and double it. For $24 \times 7$, use $12 \times 7 = 84$, then double to 168.

• The 25 table climbs in quarter-hundreds. Its multiples cycle through 25, 50, 75, 00, so every fourth step lands on a round hundred: $25 \times 4 = 100$, $25 \times 8 = 200$.

• The 21 and 23 tables build by the split, since 23 is a prime number and 21 is $3 \times 7$. Reach them by adding to the 20 value or by using their factors.

Learn these moves and any product in the grid becomes something you rebuild rather than store.

What Do The Tables Look Like In Words?

Reading a table aloud fixes its rhythm before the digits stick. The 22 table reads "one times 22 is 22, two times 22 is 44, three times 22 is 66," on to "ten times 22 is 220." The 25 table is the smoothest to chant, stepping twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, one hundred. Each individual table page linked below writes out its full spoken form.

Why Should You Learn The Tables From 20 To 25?

This narrow band is more useful than its size suggests, because these are the everyday large tables - two dozen of something, a quarter of a hundred, the low twenties. Fluency here speeds up long multiplication, area problems, and mental estimation, and it drills the split-and-double method on numbers big enough to matter. You are not memorising six new fact-sets; you are practising the reasoning that later becomes algebra, on numbers you will genuinely reach for.

Where Do These Tables Appear?

These tables run through daily counting. A carton holds 24 items, a quarter is 25 of anything, and scores climb in 20s and 25s. Time uses them constantly - 20- and 25-minute slots scale a schedule directly. Money follows suit: 20 units of a $23 item cost $23 \times 20 = 460$, and a $25 hourly rate over 8 hours is $25 \times 8 = 200$. Packaging, sport, and pricing all cluster in this band, so the tables quietly power a lot of real counting.

Solved Examples

Example 1

What is $25 \times 6$?

Use the quarter-hundred pattern: $25 \times 4 = 100$, then add two more 25s, $100 + 50 = 150$.

Final answer: $25 \times 6 = 150$.

Example 2 (Wrong path first)

A tray holds 22 cups across 7 trays. How many cups?

Wrong attempt. The rusher multiplies only the tens, reads $22 \times 7$ as $20 \times 7 = 140$, and stops.

Why it breaks. That ignores the 2 in every tray, undercounting by $2 \times 7 = 14$ cups.

Correct. Split it: $(20 \times 7) + (2 \times 7) = 140 + 14 = 154$.

Final answer: 154 cups.

Example 3

Find $24 \times 7$ by doubling.

Since $24 = 2 \times 12$, take $12 \times 7 = 84$, then double.

$84 \times 2 = 168$

Final answer: $24 \times 7 = 168$.

Example 4

$20 \times {?} = 180$.

Divide to find the missing factor: $180 \div 20 = 9$.

Final answer: $20 \times 9 = 180$.

Practice Questions

1. $20 \times 7 = {?}$

2. $25 \times 8 = {?}$

3. Fill in the blank: $24 \times {?} = 96$.

4. A box holds 23 pens. How many in 6 boxes?

5. $22 \times 9 = {?}$

6. Which is larger, $21 \times 8$ or $20 \times 9$?

7. $25 \times 10 = {?}$

8. Use place value: $23 \times 7 = {?}$

Answers: 1. 140 2. 200 3. 4 4. 138 5. 198 6. $21 \times 8 = 168$ is smaller, so $20 \times 9 = 180$ is larger 7. 250 8. 161.

Conclusion

• The tables from 20 to 25 sit in one master grid running from 20 to 250, so any two are easy to compare.

• Every number here is $20 + k$, so the place-value split rebuilds any product from the 20 table plus a small part.

• The even tables (20, 22, 24) are each a double of a smaller table, and the 25 table climbs in quarter-hundreds.

• The 21 and 23 tables build by the split, since 21 is 3 × 7 and 23 is prime.

To take this band further with a teacher, explore Bhanzu's mental maths for kids sessions, its elementary math tutor support, or the wider math programs for kids.

Read More

• Multiplication Tables - the master hub linking every individual times table in one place.

• Tables from 1 to 20 - the foundation range this band extends.

• Table of 21 - the 3-times-7 table.

• Table of 22 - double the 11 table.

• Table of 23 - a prime table, built by the split.

• 24 times table - double the 12 table, the two-dozen count.

• 25 times table - a quarter of 100, steps in 25s.

• Mental math for kids - building fast, confident arithmetic.

• Math is Fun — Multiplication Tables - printable charts and practice.