Equal groups
Helps when multiplication is new: it shows what the two numbers mean.
Step 1Make 5 groups with 5 in each group. That is 5 rows of 5.
Step 2Add the groups: 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 25.
- 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 25
Step 3So 5 × 5 = 25.
Step 1 of 3
Grade 2 Multiplication Vertical Format
Grade 2 multiplication vertical format sheet: 20 problems on equal groups, multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10.
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Solve each problem. Line up the place values and show any regrouping.
- 1.5×5
- 2.7×2
- 3.5×4
- 4.1×3
- 5.3×5
- 6.2×5
- 7.5×3
- 8.3×3
- 9.1×1
- 10.5×10
- 11.2×4
- 12.10×3
- 13.5×1
- 14.10×10
- 15.5×2
- 16.4×2
- 17.3×1
- 18.1×5
- 19.2×1
- 20.3×10
Other ways to solve this
Using 5 × 5 from this sheet (Set A, problem 1). Each method below reaches the same answer, 25, by a different route; pick the one that makes the most sense to you.
Skip counting
Helps with the times tables: say the multiples in order and stop at the right one.
Step 1Count by 5s, 5 times.
- 5, 10, 15, 20, 25
Step 2The 5th number you say is 25.
Step 3So 5 × 5 = 25.
Step 1 of 3
What this worksheet covers
This is a 20-problem vertical format for grade 2 multiplication, printed in black and white with the key on page two. Within that, the numbers run as high as 10. Problems 7 and 14, for instance, are "5 × 3" and "10 × 10". It is written against Common Core 2.OA.4 — Operations & Algebraic Thinking, grade 2.
Skills practiced
At grade 2, multiplication is about equal groups, arrays as repeated addition, and skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, and this sheet takes one slice of that. Specifically, the problems practice equal groups and multiplying by 2, 3, 5 and 10. Concretely, the sheet tests whether a student can recall the multiplication facts quickly and accurately, without counting up to them. Fourteen different answers appear across the twenty problems, so a student cannot copy one result down the page.
About the vertical format format
Vertical format stacks the two operands over a rule with space above for regrouped digits; the 20 problems, problem 7, "5 × 3" among them, sit four to a row. Stacked factors put the partial products in columns, which is where the place-value shift in long multiplication lives.
Set A, Set B and Set C
All three sets are produced by the site's deterministic generator from a fixed seed, so they are the same every time the site is built and the answer keys are exact. Where Set A's problem 11 is "2 × 4", Set B's is "5 × 2".
How to use this worksheet
Sit alongside for this multiplication vertical format. At grade 2 the useful information is not the score but which of the twenty problems drew a pause. Ask the student to re-work one missed multiplication problem from scratch on Set B rather than correcting it in place; the second attempt shows whether the method changed.
The full guide to teaching multiplicationTeaching multiplication from equal groups to integer exponents: the grade 2–8 progression, times-table strategies, and the errors that stall students.Other grade 2 multiplication formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Drill — Grade 2 Arrays and Equal Addends, 16 problems
- Timed Drill — Grade 2 Multiplication Timed Drill, 60 problems
- Missing Number — Grade 2 Multiplication Missing Number, 24 problems
- Mixed Review — 2.OA.4 — Rectangular Arrays & Equal Addends Practice, 22 problems
- Word Problems — Grade 2 Multiplication Word Problems, 8 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- Grade 3 Multiplication Vertical Format — grade 3, 20 problems
Vertical Format sheets in other grade 2 topics
Print as many copies of this grade 2 multiplication vertical format as you need; Sets A, B and C and their keys are six separate PDFs, all free.