2-digit by 1-digit multiplication worksheets

A single-digit multiplier is the gentlest way into written multiplication: one number on top, one digit below, one row of work. These free printable worksheets multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number in column form, like 47 × 6.

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2-digit by 1-digit multiplication
2-digit by 1-digit multiplication worksheet — 2-digit × 1-digit, free printable with answer key

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What's on this sheet

With one digit on the bottom, the whole calculation is a single row: multiply that digit by each digit of the top number in turn. What is new compared with the times tables is the carry. Six sevens are forty-two, so the 2 is written and the 4 carries into the tens; six fours are twenty-four, plus the carried four makes twenty-eight, and 47 × 6 is 282.

Why this sheet works

The mistake to watch for is adding the carried digit before multiplying instead of after. In 47 × 6 the four is carried, then six fours are found, then the four is added — multiply first, carry second. Keeping that order straight here, on a single easy row, is what makes the longer sheets manageable later.

How this one works

One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.

11 × 7

11 7 77
  1. 11 × 7, set out in columns. Multiply one place at a time, starting at the ones on the RIGHT.
  2. The ones: 1 × 7 = 7. Write the 7.
  3. The tens: 1 × 7 = 7. Nothing further to carry into, so all of 7 is written down.
  4. So 11 × 7 = 77.