Doubles Song / Doubling Rhyme / Multiplication / Two Times Table

I wrote this rhyme to help second and third-graders memorize their doubles facts. While they often could double 1-5 with ease, they tended to get mixed up with the products of 6, 7, 8 and 9 when multiplied by two. After "singing" this enough times, I could hear my students whispering the lines to themselves when doing computations! Eventually, as with anything that we memorize, they needed to refer to the rhyme less and less, and eventually it was committed to memory.

I recommend writing it out as a poster!

I have underlined and capitalized the syllables that should have extra emphasis on them in order to keep the correct rhythm of the rhyme.