With these engaging worksheets, your students can practise solving multiplication calculations using friendly numbers.

Firstly, the calculations must be completed by rounding the first number in each question up or down to the nearest friendly ten and then using compensation to find the correct answer. The worksheets also include a word problem to solve. After that, the circled numbers are put into a code. The code reveals descriptions of an emoji. Your students must use the clues to draw the correct emoji to complete the task.

Three differentiated versions of the worksheet are available. The first worksheet only requires multiplications by two, three and five. With the second worksheet, the range of multipliers increases, and the third worksheet focuses on two-digit by two-digit multiplication.

When you have decided which version of the worksheet to give to which students, you can print out the number of copies that you need and start the maths fun.