13 times 19 is 247 — with the shortcut, the division facts and a drill to make it stick
13 × 19 = 247. That is the short answer, and it is the same answer whichever way round you write the two numbers. Below is where 247 comes from, the shortcut that gets you there without counting, the division facts that travel with it, and the fastest way to move it from "I can work it out" to "I just know it".
13 × 19 = 247. Said out loud in the way most classrooms say it: Thirteen nineteens are two hundred and forty-seven.
Multiplying is repeated addition, so 13 × 19 is thirteen nineteens added together, or equally nineteen thirteens added together. Both routes land on 247.
Written the other way round the answer does not change. 19 × 13 = 247 as well, because multiplication is commutative — the order of the two factors never affects the product. That halves how many facts you actually have to learn: get 13 × 19 and you have 19 × 13 for free.
Nineteen is one short of twenty. Twenty thirteens are 260, take one thirteen back and you are left with 247.
Both factors are odd, so the answer has to be odd as well. 247 is odd, which rules out a whole class of slips.
Every multiplication fact comes with a division fact on its back. These four all say the same thing about 13, 19 and 247: 13 × 19 = 247; 19 × 13 = 247; 247 ÷ 13 = 19; 247 ÷ 19 = 13.
Learning them as one family rather than four separate things is the single biggest shortcut in times-table practice. If you can answer "247 divided by 13" as fast as you can answer "13 times 19", the fact is genuinely learned rather than just recognised.
In the 13 times table, 247 is the nineteenth step: 13, 26, 39, 52, 65, 78, 91, 104, 117, 130, 143, 156, 169, 182, 195, 208, 221, 234, 247.
In the 19 times table it is the thirteenth step instead: 19, 38, 57, 76, 95, 114, 133, 152, 171, 190, 209, 228, 247.
Seeing the same number arrive from two directions is what makes it stick. 247 is a landmark in both rows, so whichever table you are drilling you meet it again.
13 × 18 = 234, 13 × 20 = 260, 12 × 19 = 228, 14 × 19 = 266. Those are the answers people most often give by accident when they are a beat too quick.
The gap between neighbours is worth knowing on its own: each extra thirteen adds 13 to the running total, and each extra nineteen adds 19. So if 13 × 19 = 247 is solid, you can reach 13 × 20 by adding 13 rather than starting again.
Recognising a fact and recalling it under time pressure are different skills. A fact you can work out in four seconds still costs you four seconds every time it appears inside a longer calculation.
Short daily bursts beat long sessions: a 60-second drill every day will fix a table faster than one twenty-minute sitting a week. Mix the fact you are learning in among ones you already know so recall is being tested, not the order of a list.
13 times 19 is 247. In words, thirteen nineteens are two hundred and forty-seven.
19 times 13 is also 247. Swapping the two factors never changes the answer, so 19 × 13 and 13 × 19 both come to 247.
247 ÷ 13 = 19, because 13 × 19 = 247. The matching fact is 247 ÷ 19 = 13.
Nineteen is one short of twenty. Twenty thirteens are 260, take one thirteen back and you are left with 247.
Yes. 247 is the nineteenth number in the 13 times table, and the thirteenth number in the 19 times table.
Every multiplication fact from 2 × 2 to 20 × 20 has its own page here, and the full grid is on the multiplication chart.