Each square has a fact. Solve it, find the answer under a crayon and color the square, and a hidden picture shows up. These pictures are set out by times table, so a child who has learned the 2s, 5s and 10s only meets those facts. Three are free here: the 2s, 5s and 10s, dividing by 3 and 4, and a mixed multiplication and division picture. The pack has 24 pictures, from the 2s to the 11s and 12s.
Facts from the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. The hidden picture shows up as the squares are colored. Color answer key included.
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Division facts dividing by 3 and 4. The hidden picture shows up as the squares are colored. Color answer key included.
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Multiplication and division facts from the 2 to 9 tables. The hidden picture shows up as the squares are colored. Color answer key included.
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The 3 free pictures above, plus 21 more that are only in the pack, each with its color answer key.
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A mystery picture is fact practice that children want to finish. The page starts as a grid of 168 plain squares with a fact in each one. The crayon boxes at the top list which answers go with which color, so every fact has to be solved before its square can be colored. The picture is not printed anywhere on the sheet: it only appears as the squares fill in.
Most color by number sheets mix every times table, which is no use to a child who has only learned some of them. Here each picture uses one group of tables: the 2s, 5s and 10s first, then the 3s and 4s, the 6s, 7s and 8s, the 9s, and the 11s and 12s. The division pictures only divide by their own numbers, so the "dividing by 3 and 4" picture never asks for 21 ÷ 7.
The sheets check themselves. A wrong answer puts the wrong color in the picture, and it shows. A whole picture takes most children 30 to 45 minutes, so it can be split over a few days, a row or two at a time.
For mixed-table pictures and pictures for addition and subtraction, see the mystery pictures page. For plain fact practice, see the multiplication and division worksheets and the multiplication chart. For two-player practice, see the multiplication games.
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