Input Output Tables Teaching Resources

Add input/output tables to your teacher toolkit this school year with printable worksheets and activities ready to help your students develop their operations and algebraic thinking skills!

This collection of input-output table resources is teacher-created and has undergone a rigorous review by the teachers on the Teach Starter team to ensure they're student-ready. Find curriculum-aligned resources for your maths groups to help students meet the National and state curriculum standards.

What Are Input and Output Tables?

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Input-output tables represent the relationship between two variables, providing pairs of numbers follow a certain pattern or rule. The inputs are listed in the left column, and the outputs are listed in the right column.

How to Use Input-Output Tables

Whether students are learning coordinate graphing standards, creating ordered pairs, or determining missing values, input-output tables can help students organise and show relationships between different data points.

As an example, if a student is analysing an input and output table with a missing value, they must determine the relationship between the numbers in the left-hand column and the right-hand column. It may be that each number is being multiplied by 5, divided by 3, etc. Once the rule has been established, students can then use this to calculate the missing value.