multiplication table

noun

1. Arithmetic.,  a tabular listing of the products of any two numbers of a set, usually of the integers 1 through 10 or 1 through 12.

multiplication table

noun

1. one of a group of tables giving the results of multiplying two numbers together

Word History and Origins

Origin of multiplication table¹

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

That’s because even though ChatGPT has likely analyzed plenty of math textbooks, no one has given it an infinitely large multiplication table.

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“I just kept searching for an idea that would be far beyond the multiplication table and got the idea that three is the magical number,” Dorough told the Los Angeles Times in 1997.

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They’re going to have to turn it around in their head if they don’t have the multiplication table memorized.

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Games at Mexico City’s enormous Estadio Azteca — where visiting fans are caged in fencing, ostensibly for their own protection — can inspire fans to break out a multiplication table to describe its appeal:

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Teachers at one elementary school in Washington state described it as promoting kids to grade-level material with extra support, such as a preprinted multiplication table to help them follow along in class, while also asking teachers to somehow find time to do catch-up review when breaking the class into small groups.

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