Multiplicative thinking resources

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

Students answer questions involving finding how many of one fraction goes into another fraction.

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

The price of various amounts of diesel is required given its price per litre as well as writing out how much diesel can be bought for a given price.

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

Students use percentages to calculate heights of a building from the total height. They then explain how to calculate another percentage.

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 show how to divide 3-digit whole numbers into equal sized groups and identify any remainder.

Students to show how to calculate problems that involve rates and ratios.

Students use doubling and halving to solve multiplication problems.

Students calculate how price changes affect a purchase.

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 work out different percentages of a sum of money and the percentage of money left over.

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

Students calculate how many adults got into a concert for free using information about the number of concert-goers and the ratio of free adults to children.

Students calculate the number of games teams win or play in a season from given ratios.

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 work out how many cups of juice can be made or how many runs can be scored from given rates.

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.