Grade 4 multiplication timed drill sheet: 72 problems on multiplication facts to 12 × 12, multiplying by multiples of 10 and 100.
Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Start the timer, then solve as many problems as you can. Write your time in the box when you finish.
Using 3 × 12 from this sheet (Set A, problem 1). Each method below reaches the same answer, 36, by a different route; pick the one that makes the most sense to you.
Helps with bigger numbers: split them by place value and multiply the parts.
Step 1Split each number by place value: 3 stays as 3; 12 = 10 + 2.
Step 2Multiply to fill each box.
Step 3Add the boxes: 30 + 6 = 36.
Step 4So 3 × 12 = 36.
Helps you see every piece of a long multiplication before adding them up.
Step 1Split 3 into 3 and 12 into 10 + 2.
Step 2Multiply each part of 12 by each part of 3, starting with the ones.
Step 3Add the partial products: 6 + 30 = 36.
Step 4So 3 × 12 = 36.
Helps you catch place-value slips: round, estimate, then check that the exact answer is close.
Step 1Round each number to its first digit: 3 stays 3; 12 rounds to 10.
Step 2Estimate: 3 × 10 = 30.
Step 3Now work it out exactly: 3 × 12 = 36.
Step 4Compare: 36 is 6 away from the estimate of 30. An answer with a different number of digits from the estimate usually means a place-value slip.
72 multiplication problems fill this timed drill page; problem 25 asks "6 × 10", and the sheet stays at that level throughout. What makes this set particular: the numbers run as high as 500. Further down, problem 49 asks "3 × 11". Common Core 3.OA.7 is the slot this page fills.
At grade 4, multiplication is about two- and three-digit by one-digit products and two-digit by two-digit multiplication, and this sheet takes one slice of that. The skills on the page: multiplication facts to 12 × 12 and multiplying by multiples of 10 and 100. Working the page asks a student to recall the multiplication facts quickly and accurately, without counting up to them. 54 different answers appear across the 72 problems, so a student cannot copy one result down the page.
With 72 short problems such as problem 25, "6 × 10" and a timer box, this page measures recall rather than method — write the time down, and aim to beat it on Set B. The times tables are the one set of facts that must be automatic, and a timed page is how you find out whether they are.
The three sets come from the same generator with three different seeds: same skill, same layout, fresh numbers, and an answer key computed with the problems. Where Set A's problem 37 is "7 × 9", Set B's is "9 × 10".
By grade 4 a student should take all 72 multiplication problems in one sitting. If the page takes more than about fifteen minutes, the underlying facts are probably not automatic yet, and that is worth fixing before more multiplication practice piles on. If more than a third of the 72 problems come back wrong, stop and step back a grade in multiplication rather than assigning Set B.
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.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.
Six PDFs, no sign-up: three versions of this grade 4 multiplication timed drill and three answer keys, each 72 problems long.
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