Multiplicative thinking resources

Students answer questions that involve calculating the capacities of different situations.

Students use a diagram of a netball court and soccer field to calculate area.

Students convert millilitres to litres and vice versa when working out quantities of bottles and glasses of fizzy drink for a party.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.

Students express proportions as percentages and calculate percentages.

This practical task requires students to construct a one metre newspaper roll, use it to estimate the dimensions of a room, then calculate the volume of that room.

Students perform decimal multiplication and division involving the cost of material, without the use of a calculator.

In this practical task, students use plastic coins and paper notes to work out three different ways to make the same amount of money.

Students explore multiplicative relationships by completing multiplication equations.

Student solve multiplication and division problems that involve money.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of multiplication and division calculations using whole numbers and decimals.

For this NEMP task students complete a table for a linear equation about fuel consumption.

Students calculate the number of 2cm blocks fit into a given 3-dimensional block model, and answer questions about one face, and volume of the block model.

Students show how to break given amounts into a number of equal sized groups and find the amount each person gets.

Students use doubling and halving to solve a number of multiplication problems.

Students convert speeds of vintage cars into kilometres per hour, and calculate distances travelled at these speeds.

Students work out how many doses in a larger measure of medicine.

Students work out the number of covered counters on a 10 x 10 array.

Students estimate and explain how they estimated their answer for two number problems: one involving multiplication; and the other division.

Students break given numbers into equal sized groups. Students must show their working.

Students work out the height of trees which have grown by different percentages, and work out the percentage growth from two given heights.

Students give the fraction or ratio of brown to white eggs in some cartons.

Students calculate the lengths and areas of a road sign.

Students perform addition, multiplication, and percentage calculations based on information about the cost of buying and posting computer programs.

Students use rates to solve word problems involving cooking and preserving.