Printable daily totals worksheet

Each card shows what is needed for one day and tells you how many days. The child multiplies to find how many are needed in all. Two items per card, one number of days, two facts to write. Print a clean PDF in seconds.

Totals

Each picture shows 2 to 5 things for one day, the number of days is 2 to 6, and no answer is more than 20. Totals to 30 includes everything in Totals to 20, and the four cards always use four different numbers of days.

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Daily totals

The pictures show what is needed for one day. Multiply by the number of days to find how many are needed in all.

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How to use it

Start with one row of pictures and count it: that is how many are needed for a single day. Then read the number of days printed underneath. Those two numbers are the multiplication, and the answer is how many are needed in all. Do the second row the same way. The number of days is the same for both rows, because both items are needed across the same stretch of days.

Only one day is shown

This is the part worth pointing out. The pictures show one day and only one day, so a child cannot get the answer by counting what is on the page. The number of days is written as a number instead of drawn, which means the multiplying has to happen in their head rather than on the paper. That is the difference between counting a picture and using one, and it is the step that makes multiplication genuinely useful.

Why two items

Two items share one number of days on purpose. It gives a child two facts from one situation, which is closer to how quantities actually work outside a worksheet, and because the two rows always have different amounts, the second answer can never be copied from the first. The two facts are different questions about the same stretch of days.

Practice the facts

If the multiplying itself is the sticking point rather than the situation, multiplication arrays show every object on the page so the facts can be counted out, and the printable multiplication chart is the reference to keep nearby. For written practice, multiplication worksheets cover facts through multi-digit work, or browse all printables.

A simple routine

Ask the question out loud before any writing happens: how many for one day, and how many days? Once a child can say those two numbers back, the fact almost writes itself. If they reach for their fingers to count days, cover the number and ask them to say it from memory instead, because the whole point is that the days were never something to count.