For the two times table, double to get the answer.
To show the 2 times tables, you will need some sheets of regular graph paper, or the paper on the next page, which has larger squares.

• Fold the paper along any line.
  
  
• Colour in 1 square along the fold. Cut out the square, but don’t cut along the fold line. Open it up. What do you see? Two squares. 2 × 1 = 2. Double 1 is 2.
  
  
• Back at the folded paper. Colour in 2 squares along the fold. Cut out the squares. Open it up.
  What do you see? Four squares. 2 × 2 = 4. Double 2 is 4.
  
  
• Back at the folded paper. Colour in 3 squares along the fold. Cut out the squares. Open it up.
  What do you see? Six squares. 2 × 3 = 6. Double 3 is 6. And so on.
  
  
• Make a display of the cut-outs, each one marked with its number sentence.
  For example, 2 × 3 = 6.

Kids may want to colour the other half a different colour as it is revealed. It doesn’t matter what shape the initial coloured block is, so long as at least 1 square is along the fold. Any of the following will be good: