5 Times Table

What you will learn

• Say and write the answers in the $5$ times table up to $5 \times 12$.
• Use the patterns in the table to check your answers.
• Use the table to solve simple word problems.

Before you start: you should know multiplication as equal groups. See Multiplication: Equal Groups and Arrays.

The idea

The $5$ times table lists $5$ multiplied by $1, 2, 3$ and so on up to $12$. Each answer is the number of objects in that many groups of $5$.

The whole table

Patterns

• Count in fives: $5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60$.
• Every answer ends in $5$ or $0$, alternating: odd multiples end in $5$, even multiples end in $0$.
• The 5 times table is half the 10 times table: $5 \times 8$ is half of $10 \times 8 = 80$, which is $40$.

Skip counting

Counting in steps of $5$ gives the answers one after another.

An array

An array shows the same facts as rows and columns.

Worked examples

Example 1: Counting in fives

What is $5 \times 7$?

1. Count in fives seven times: $5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35$.

Answer: $35$.

Example 2: Half of ten times

What is $5 \times 6$?

1. $10 \times 6 = 60$.
2. Half of $60$ is $30$.

Answer: $30$.

Example 3: Clock minutes

The minute hand is on the $9$. How many minutes past the hour is that?

1. Each number on a clock is $5$ minutes.
2. $9 \times 5 = 45$.

Answer: $45$ minutes.

The answers alternate between ending in 5 and ending in 0. If you know $5 \times 6 = 30$, then $5 \times 7$ is $5$ more, which is $35$.

Why it matters

Fives are everywhere: clock faces, coins, tally marks and scores. The 5 times table also gives you a head start on harder tables, because $6 \times 7$ can be built from $5 \times 7$ plus one more seven.