Multi-digit multiplication2-digit × 2-digit
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Multiply to find each product.
143×86
291×88
343×17
496×87
549×69
662×85
741×17
842×49
2-digit by 2-digit multiplication worksheets
A two-digit multiplier is the real leap: now there are two rows to work and then add. These free printable worksheets multiply two two-digit numbers in column form, like 34 × 26, building each partial product and summing them for the answer.
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2-digit by 2-digit multiplication
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Splitting the bottom number is the whole idea. 34 × 26 is 34 × 6 plus 34 × 20, so the sheet asks for two multiplications and then their sum. The first row multiplies by the ones digit, the second row multiplies by the tens digit, and adding the two gives 204 + 680 = 884.
Why this sheet works
The step that trips children is the second row. Because that digit is really twenty, not two, the whole partial product shifts one place to the left; many write a zero in the ones column first to hold the place, then multiply. Skip that shift and the two rows add up in the wrong columns — the single most common two-digit-by-two-digit mistake, and the reason this skill gets its own sheet.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
43 × 86
43 86 2583440 3698
- 43 × 86, set out in columns. Split the 86 by place value and take one piece at a time.
- The 6 is in the ones, so it is just 6: 43 × 6 = 258.
- The 8 is in the tens, so it is worth 80 — not 8. That is why this row is 43 × 80 = 3440, and why it ends in 0.
- Now add the pieces: 258 + 3440 = 3698.