This page makes free printable 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication worksheets on demand: press the button and you get a new sheet of 20 problems with a matching answer key, ready for US Letter or A4 paper. Two of the problems on the sheet as it stands are 474 × 80 and 582 × 34 — answers 37,920 and 19,788 — and a new set is one click away.
‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.
Every sheet is regenerated, so the child practises the method rather than a particular set of partial products.
Estimating before calculating changes the error rate more than any other single habit. Rounding the numbers in 582 × 34 first gives a range that 19,788 must fall inside.
If a child can do the layout but keeps getting the arithmetic wrong, the problem is table fluency rather than multiplication, and the times table pages linked below fix that faster than more lines like 972 × 74 will.
The place-value zero in the second row is where most multi-digit errors live. Children who write it deliberately, rather than as a remembered squiggle, make far fewer mistakes.
Work of this kind is commonly aligned with the multi-digit multiplication expectations for this grade; schools outside the US meet the same skill at roughly the same age, which is why these 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication worksheets travel well.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 474 × 80 = | 37,920 | Watch for: forgetting to add the partial products |
| 2 | 582 × 34 = | 19,788 | Check: adding the carry before multiplying |
| 3 | 938 × 45 = | 42,210 | Look at: omitting the place-holding zero |
| 4 | 976 × 15 = | 14,640 | Ask about: not estimating |
| 5 | 972 × 74 = | 71,928 | Watch for: carrying into the wrong column |
| 6 | 258 × 33 = | 8,514 | Check: a shaky fact inside a correct method |
A good first problem to do together is 474 × 80, which comes out at 37,920. Do 474 × 80 once with the child narrating, then hand over the pencil and start the clock on the other 20 problems.
Work 976 × 15 out loud as a demonstration. It gives 14,640. Children who hear 976 × 15 reasoned through once at the start of a session make noticeably fewer errors in the ten minutes that follow.
The answer key is generated with the worksheet, not written by hand, so it always matches the sheet in front of you — 474 × 80 is listed as 37,920, 582 × 34 as 19,788, and so on down the page.
Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.
If the problems look cramped, drop the count from 20 to a smaller number before printing these 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication worksheets; the font stays the same size and the spacing opens up.
For a class set, print one sheet, press the new-worksheet button and print again. Each child gets different numbers on the same skill, so nobody can copy the answer to 474 × 80 from a neighbour.
One sheet of 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication worksheets a day for two weeks will tell you more about where a child working at this level actually stands than any single long assessment.
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Free printable math worksheets from a working math academy director in Korea. Problems come from our own code, not from a published workbook. Every sheet prints on US Letter or A4 with its answer key. All worksheets · Worksheet generator · Korean site
Last updated: 2026-09-13