Multiplicative thinking resources

Students answer multiple-choice questions involving total weight and a number of objects.

Students use the number of words typed in a given time to work out the number of words typed per minute and per hour.

Students evaluate how many complete times a number divides into another when there is a remainder.

Students complete equations by multiplying to given products on a multiplication wheel.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

In this practical task students use counters to show fractions of whole numbers.

Students answer questions about weight and number of packets of biscuits for a school fundraising project.

Students answer multiple choice questions about finding percentages of a whole number, and express a quantity as a percentage of another.

Students perform calculations on indoor cricket scores, which include negative numbers.

Students find a missing number using clues about what remainder there is when the number is divided by given numbers.

Students answer four multiple-choice questions about volume and surface area.

This task requires students to exhibit multiplication basic facts, and answer story problems about vegetables that require multiplication.

Students perform calculations on numbers in standard form and convert numbers from standard form to ordinary form and vice versa.

Students share out sets of counters into equal-sized groups.

Students convert units of weight - milligram, gram, kilogram, and tonne, in order to answer questions about potatoes.

Students show how to partition shapes into a given number of equal parts and identify the fraction of each part.

Students solve number problems involving prices which include and exclude sales tax.

Students find the prime numbers that add or multiply to given sums or products.

Students break amounts into a number of equal sized groups.

Students write ratios of cooking ingredients in their simplest form.

Students calculate the number of different coins in a given amount of money.

Using discount percentages, students calculate the sale price of clothes from the original price. They also calculate the original price of a discounted item.

Students calculate the number of different sized bottles of cola needed to make 6 litres and calculate the cheapest option to buy 12 litres

For this NEMP task students perform a range of tasks using fractions. These include ordering, subtracting, finding an equivalent and recording as a decimal and percentage.

Students answer question about partitioning pizzas between people.