Multiplicative thinking resources

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

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

Students answer questions about distance, speed and time, and identify an expression that describes the distance (kilometres) from the starting point in terms of time (minutes).

Students use ratios and proportional reasoning to compute various amounts.

Students calculate the quantity and time taken for pages to be printed on a computer printer from the rate at which it prints.

Students work out the costs and the best value for money of a range of tomato sauce bottles.

Students solve linear equations based on pizza orders and cooking times.

This task requires students to show how to estimate numbers of items in some multiplication problems using any acceptable estimation strategy.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

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

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication, and show their working.

Students solve problems involving finding simple fractions of quantities, and show their working.

Students use fractions as operators to find unit fractions of a given whole number.

Students show how to work out the number of 1-digit that there are in 2-digit numbers.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students work out the missing dimension on a rectangle and show how they obtained it using proportional reasoning.

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

Students explain multiplication estimation methods used to solve word problems.

Students show how to calculate maths problems involving fractions as a part and as a whole.

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

Students use doubling and halving to solve multiplication problems.

Students find fractions of numbers of different farm animals and put them in their simplest form.

Students convert heights of a building into the percentage of the given total height, explaining how they solved some conversions. Assessment focus is on how they calculate these heights and what strategies they use.

Students show how they solve equal sharing problems.

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