Double Digit Multiplication Worksheet
This Double Digit Multiplication Worksheet gives 4th grade students four money word problems, a wheat penny price guide and room to show their work. Answer key included.
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Description
How to teach two-digit multiplication with money
This Double Digit Multiplication Worksheet asks students to multiply two two-digit numbers, and it gives them a reason to do it. Every problem starts at a coin shop counter with a price guide of wheat pennies, so the second factor is not printed in the question: the student has to find the date in the guide, read the price in cents, and then set up the multiplication. That one extra step is what separates a page of bare exercises from the kind of problem a fourth grader meets on a test.
The four word problems use counts from 14 to 28 pennies and prices from 12 to 35 cents, so every product lands between 336 and 840 cents. The fourth problem is a two-step item: the student multiplies, then adds the price of one more penny before answering. Each card carries its own work box sized for a full written method, and page two is a complete answer key showing the multiplication sentence and the labeled total. Used as a 4th grade multiplication worksheet, it works equally well for guided practice, a warm-up, or a quick check of 4.NBT.B.5.
What’s Included
- A two-page printable: a problem page and a full answer key
- A wheat penny price guide with eight dates and prices in cents
- Four two-digit by two-digit money word problems, one of them two-step
- A work box under every problem, sized for a written method
- A Name and Date line on the problem page
Three reasons this helps kids
- Pulling one factor out of a price guide teaches students to gather information before they compute
- Money totals give a wrong answer somewhere to be wrong, so students can judge whether a product is reasonable
- The two-step problem builds the habit of reading all the way to the end of a question
Ideas for teachers and parents
Print the Double Digit Multiplication Worksheet and work the first problem together, pointing at the guide as you find the price, so students see that the page has two sources of information. Ask early finishers to write a fifth problem of their own using a date the sheet did not use, then trade with a partner. For a small group, have students estimate each total to the nearest ten cents before multiplying and compare the estimate with the exact answer. The price guide also makes a natural bridge into converting cents to dollars later in the unit.
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