Multi-digit multiplication · sheet 29 of 30

Answer key

The answer, and what a wrong answer means.

The sheet
#ProblemAnswerIf they wrote…
1 387 × 4 1548 no pattern to catch here
2 61 × 3 183 no pattern to catch here
3 78 × 34 2652 2132 leaving out a partial product546 forgetting to shift the second row
4 85 × 61 5185 4805 leaving out a partial product595 forgetting to shift the second row
5 25 × 8 200 no pattern to catch here
6 58 × 31 1798 1508 leaving out a partial product232 forgetting to shift the second row
7 686 × 8 5488 no pattern to catch here
8 78 × 31 2418 2108 leaving out a partial product312 forgetting to shift the second row
9 15 × 7 105 no pattern to catch here
10 38 × 9 342 no pattern to catch here
11 89 × 7 623 no pattern to catch here
12 37 × 74 2738 2128 leaving out a partial product407 forgetting to shift the second row
13 11 × 57 627 132 forgetting to shift the second row507 leaving out a partial product
14 82 × 6 492 no pattern to catch here
15 87 × 35 3045 2435 leaving out a partial product696 forgetting to shift the second row
16 73 × 4 292 no pattern to catch here
17 85 × 9 765 no pattern to catch here
18 379 × 3 1137 no pattern to catch here
19 394 × 2 788 no pattern to catch here
20 79 × 51 4029 3509 leaving out a partial product474 forgetting to shift the second row

Reading the wrong answers

One wrong answer is a slip. The same pattern on three or more problems is a rule your child is following, and it has a name and a fix. Problems marked "no pattern to catch" are the plain ones; a child who gets only those right is telling you something too.

Leaving out a partial product 8 of 20 problems

Forgetting to shift the second row 8 of 20 problems