Short Multiplication: Three Digits by One Digit

Year 4 MathsMultiplication and Division5 pages

About this worksheet

Thirty short multiplication questions for Year 4 maths across three levels. Pupils warm up with two-digit by one-digit questions with no carrying, like 12 × 3, then move to three-digit by one-digit with carrying, like 215 × 4, and finish with missing digits and scaling problems such as 4 boxes of 115 pencils. All 30 answers are listed in the key. Practises the England National Curriculum written multiplication objective.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Number - multiplication and division

Multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout

The 24 core questions build this method from no carrying to carrying.

Number - multiplication and division

Solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects.

The challenge questions bring in scaling contexts.

What's inside this worksheet

Warm up: 2-digit × 1-digit

Twelve questions with no carrying, like 12 × 3 and 24 × 2.

Level up: 3-digit × 1-digit

Twelve questions with carrying, like 124 × 3 and 215 × 4.

Challenge: Missing digits and scaling

Six questions mixing missing digit puzzles with word problems like 4 boxes of 115 pencils.

How teachers use it

Fluency slot

Set a section per session over three fluency slots.

Homework

Thirty questions and a full key make a self-contained homework.

Intervention

Start strugglers on the no-carrying warm up and build from there.

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