Maximum Product

Make multiplication practise more engaging with Maximum Product, a strategy-based maths game that challenges children to think carefully about place value and digit placement when solving multiplication calculations.

With three different activity sheets included, children can practise multiplication at a level that suits them — from 2-digit × 2-digit through to 4-digit × 2-digit calculations.


What’s Included
  • Printable activity sheets for:

    • 2-digit × 2-digit

    • 3-digit × 2-digit

    • 4-digit × 2-digit

  • Clear instructions for gameplay and variations


Why Teachers Love It
  • Encourages strategic thinking about place value

  • Reinforces multiplication skills and written methods

  • Promotes mathematical reasoning and discussion

  • Easy to differentiate using the three levels provided

  • Low-prep activity using simple classroom resources like a dice


Perfect For

✔ KS2 maths lessons
✔ Small group work and interventions
✔ Maths centres or stations
✔ Early finishers
✔ Developing multiplication fluency in a fun way


Maximum Product turns multiplication into an exciting strategy challenge, helping pupils see how the placement of digits can dramatically change the size of a calculation.