Long Multiplication Practice

Year 6 MathsFour Operations4 pages

About this worksheet

Eighteen long multiplication questions for Year 6, set over three pages with a squared grid for each. Page 1 opens with 47 × 23 worked in three steps, then gives six 2-digit by 2-digit questions such as 24 × 12 and 48 × 25. Page 2 moves to 3-digit and then 4-digit numbers, up to 3,266 × 24. On page 3, pupils round, estimate and compare for 62 × 13, 316 × 11 and 2,048 × 29, and finish with a missing-digit puzzle. The answer page lists both partial products for every question. It follows the England National Curriculum for Year 6 number.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Number - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

“Multiply multi-digit numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long multiplication”

Questions 1 to 18 move from 2-digit to 4-digit numbers, each multiplied by a number from 11 to 25.

Number - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

“Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of accuracy”

Questions 19 to 21 tell pupils how to round each number, then ask them to compare the estimate with the exact product.

What's inside this worksheet

Worked example and 2-digit × 2-digit practice

Pupils follow 47 × 23 through its partial products, 141 and 940, then work six questions from 24 × 12 to 48 × 25 in squared grids.

3-digit and 4-digit × 2-digit practice

Twelve questions, from 124 × 12 and 304 × 15 up to 1,420 × 23 and 3,266 × 24. The instructions ask for one digit in each square and both partial products.

Estimate, calculate and check

Pupils round to estimate 62 × 13, 316 × 11 and 2,048 × 29, calculate in the grid, then explain the gap. Question 22 is a long multiplication with five digits missing.

Answers

Every product is shown with its two partial products. The estimate answers explain why 59,392 falls just below 60,000.

How teachers use it

Model the method

Work 47 × 23 on the board and stop after 141. Ask why the next row ends in a zero before anyone writes 940.

Watch the zeros

Questions 12 and 17 (250 × 24 and 1,500 × 16) end in zeros. They show quickly who keeps digits in their columns and who loses one.

Split by confidence

Pupils who are still unsure can stop after question 12. The rest go on to the 4-digit questions and the missing-digit puzzle on page 3.

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