Multi-digit multiplication3-digit × 2-digit
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Multiply to find each product.
1101×98
2381×60
3585×16
4166×21
5961×45
6371×31
7337×96
8883×91
Multi-digit multiplication worksheets
Multi-digit multiplication takes the times-table facts a child already knows and organizes them into the standard column algorithm. These free printable worksheets set an M-digit number under an N-digit number and ask for the product, worked out in the familiar vertical layout.
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Multi-digit multiplication
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
You choose the shape of the problem by digit length — 2 × 1 to warm up, 3 × 2 for the core skill, up to 4 × 3 for a stretch. The numbers are drawn at full size within each digit band, so a three-digit factor really uses the hundreds place and the partial products stack up exactly as a child writes them by hand. Every product is a genuine multi-digit calculation, not a disguised single fact.
Why this sheet works
The sheet defaults to the column (竖式) layout because that is where the algorithm lives: the multiplicand on top, the multiplier below, and room under the line for each partial product. Eight problems fit a page with space to work, and the answer key prints the finished products on a separate sheet.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
101 × 98
101 98 8089090 9898
- 101 × 98, set out in columns. Split the 98 by place value and take one piece at a time.
- The 8 is in the ones, so it is just 8: 101 × 8 = 808.
- The 9 is in the tens, so it is worth 90 — not 9. That is why this row is 101 × 90 = 9090, and why it ends in 0.
- Now add the pieces: 808 + 9090 = 9898.