Twenty multiplication facts within 100 for grade 3, the times tables the standard asks students to know from memory. Printable PDF with answers.
Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Solve each problem. Show your work in the space provided.
Using 6 × 4 from this sheet (Set A, problem 1). Each method below reaches the same answer, 24, by a different route; pick the one that makes the most sense to you.
Helps when multiplication is new: it shows what the two numbers mean.
Step 1Make 6 groups with 4 in each group. That is 6 rows of 4.
Step 2Add the groups: 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 24.
Step 3So 6 × 4 = 24.
Helps with the times tables: say the multiples in order and stop at the right one.
Step 1Count by 4s, 6 times.
Step 2The 6th number you say is 24.
Step 3So 6 × 4 = 24.
There are twenty multiplication problems here — one page to work, one page of answers to check against — and Sets B and C repeat the layout with different numbers. What makes this set particular: the numbers run as high as 10. Problems 7 and 14, for instance, are "3 × 2" and "8 × 5". It is written against Common Core 3.OA.7 — Operations & Algebraic Thinking, grade 3.
At grade 3, multiplication is about multiplication facts to 10 × 10 and 12 × 12, and multiplying by multiples of ten, and this sheet takes one slice of that. The skill on the page: grade 3 Multiplication Practice. Working the page asks a student to recall the multiplication facts quickly and accurately, without counting up to them. Eighteen different answers appear across the twenty problems, so a student cannot copy one result down the page.
A drill is straight practice: 20 problems of the same kind, laid out across the page with working space under each — problem 7, "3 × 2" is typical of the whole page. Twenty untimed products let a student practice the algorithm while accuracy, not speed, is the target.
Set A is the original sheet; Sets B and C redraw each problem with the same shape and recomputed answers. Where Set A's problem 11 is "4 × 9", Set B's is "9 × 4".
Work the twenty problems straight through, then check against the key together rather than handing it back marked; asking a grade 3 student to find their own multiplication error teaches more than seeing it circled. Use the key as a check, not as a grade; none of the twenty problems needs a score attached to be useful.
One mistake to watch for
Zeros are lost when multiplying by multiples of ten: 6 × 40 is answered 24 instead of 240. On this grade 3 drill, problem 13 ("10 × 6") is the kind of item where it shows.
The fact 6 × 4 is recalled and the ten is forgotten.
Rewrite 6 × 40 as 6 × 4 × 10 for a few days so the ten is a visible factor rather than a decoration.
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
No paywall and no account — download any set of this grade 3 multiplication drill, and the answers for all twenty problems are in the matching key.
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