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Multiply bigger numbers: 4th grade math

Multiply 4-digit × 1-digit and 2-digit × 2-digit (area model). A free 4th grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: multiply 4-digit × 1-digit and 2-digit × 2-digit (area model).

Teach (10 min)

  • 34 × 6 is 30 × 6 plus 4 × 6.
  • Multiply each part, then add the answers together.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/whole.mulBig?lesson=4-mul-one&at=4

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Three questions on a slip:
  • 1. 18 × 2 = ?
  • 2. 26 × 2 = ?
  • 3. 21 × 2 = ?

Question set

10 questions that read in words, easiest first. Questions that need a picture are on the printable sheet below.

  1. 18 × 2 = ?
  2. 26 × 2 = ?
  3. 21 × 2 = ?
  4. 25 × 2 = ?
  5. 32 × 2 = ?
  6. 33 × 2 = ?
  7. 64 × 5 = ?
  8. 66 × 8 = ?
  9. 86 × 3 = ?
  10. 17 × 5 = ?
Answers
  1. 36
  2. 52
  3. 42
  4. 50
  5. 64
  6. 66
  7. 320
  8. 528
  9. 258
  10. 85

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Multiply bigger numbers (4th grade)

  1. 29 × 2 = ?
  2. 11 × 2 = ?
  3. 27 × 3 = ?
  4. 19 × 2 = ?
  5. 14 × 4 = ?
  6. 96 × 2 = ?
  7. 92 × 2 = ?
  8. 36 × 8 = ?
  9. 294 × 5 = ?
  10. 143 × 4 = ?
  11. 546 × 9 = ?
  12. 736 × 4 = ?
Key
  1. 58
  2. 22
  3. 81
  4. 38
  5. 56
  6. 192
  7. 184
  8. 288
  9. 1,470
  10. 572
  11. 4,914
  12. 2,944

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