18Free 3rd Grade Multiplication Worksheets

Start here. Nine facts weighted toward the 2s, 3s and 5s, with only one problem involving a 9, set in a 3 by 3 grid with rockets in the corners and a star-dotted border. It is the gentlest page of the eight by a clear margin.

Nine facts in nine separate boxes rather than one joined grid, with no illustrations anywhere. This sheet quietly shows 2 x 9 and 9 x 2 on the same page, which is the fastest way to notice that swapping the factors does not change the answer.

Another undecorated page, this one inside a triple-rule border and typeset with a true multiplication sign. It repeats two pairs both ways, 3 x 9 with 9 x 3 and 7 x 6 with 6 x 7, so a child meets the same product coming from either direction.

The last of the plain sheets, framed by a simple rounded double border. Its nine facts include 7 x 7, which appears nowhere else in this set and is one of the facts children reliably stall on.

The numbers step up here. Nine facts including 8 x 8 and 9 x 7, framed by a whale, an octopus, a starfish and a clownfish with bubbles down the margins. Two gentle 5s facts are mixed in so the page is not uniformly hard.

A cow, a pig, a sheep and a hen around nine facts that swing from 3 x 3 all the way to 8 x 9. That spread is deliberate: a child gets a couple of quick wins on the same page as the stretch facts.

Six of the nine facts here involve a factor of 6 or more, including 7 x 8 and 5 x 9, which makes this one of the two hardest pages in the set. A T-rex, a sauropod, a stegosaurus and a triceratops sit around the grid with footprints down the margins.

The hardest page, and the finish line. Nine facts including 9 x 8 for a product of 72, the largest in the set, plus two square facts, 5 x 5 and 6 x 6. A monkey, a lion, an elephant and a giraffe sit in dense vines and hibiscus.

Forty-five problems in three columns of fifteen, factors from 1 to 10, with nothing else on the page. It samples the entire times table in one sitting rather than drilling a single number, and the hard end is fully represented: 7x8, 9x9, 8x8, 9x8 and 7x7 are all here, with easy facts scattered between them.

Twenty-seven numbered problems in three roomy columns inside a double rule border, running from 2x8 up to 10x10. The stalling facts are well covered, with 8x9, 7x8, 9x6 and 7x7 all present, plus two squares in 4x4 and 6x6.

Twenty problems written vertically, one number stacked over the other with a rule beneath, four across and five down. The harder half of the table carries the page, including 8x8, 9x9, 9x7 and 6x8.

Fifteen problems on colored bands, each offering three answers to circle. The wrong choices sit deliberately close to the right one, so 6 x 8 offers 40, 48 and 54 rather than three numbers far apart.

Sixteen equations that already carry an answer, with T and F beside each to circle. The false ones are wrong by a little rather than a lot: 4 x 8 = 36, 6 x 6 = 42 and 9 x 7 = 72 all sit close enough to catch a child who is guessing.

Eighteen equations with one factor replaced by an empty box, and the blank deliberately moves position, sometimes first and sometimes second. Products run from 12 up to 80.

Six sets of three numbers, each with four blank equations underneath: two multiplication and two division. Filling the page means writing twenty-four equations, from the 3, 7, 21 family up to 8, 10, 80.

Nine rows, one for each step from 2 to 10, with three numbers missing from every sequence. The blanks sit at different points along each row rather than always at the end, so a child cannot just keep adding from where the numbers stop.

Sixteen problems in a four by four grid of colored boxes, multiplying a multiple of ten by a single digit, from 20 x 5 up to 90 x 7. Answers run from 100 to 720.

Six word problems set in situations a child can picture, from apple slices in lunch boxes to legs on spiders, each with a line for the equation and a separate line for the answer. The arithmetic stays inside the single-digit tables.