Multiplicative thinking resources

Students write addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division story problems for given car advertisements.

Students calculate the number of containers needed for given amounts of fruit for a recipe.

Students calculate the volume of 3-dimensional shapes made up from cubes.

Student work out the side lengths and area of a tapa cloth from the measurement of a small section of it, converting between cm and metres.

Students identify an equation which expresses the volume of a cuboid and calculate the number of blocks in a different cuboid.

Students work out problems about the weight and price of chocolate bars from some given information.

Students calculate different fractions of given whole numbers.

Students calculate the amount of money saved from given percentage discounts on bikes.

Students calculate the perimeter and area of three composite shapes.

For this NEMP task students calculate ratios, fractions, and percentages of numbers to solve problems involving numbers of blue and yellow bears. A sheet of coloured bears is provided.

Students demonstrate their understanding of order of operations by explaining how a correct answer is calculated.

Students label given fractions of cake, and identify the remaining fraction.

For this NEMP task students perform a series of division problems.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division calculations using whole numbers and decimal amounts of money.

Using clues, students identify an equivalent fraction for a given fraction.

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students use addition and multiplication to work out the cheapest of several price options.

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).

This task requires students to calculate multiplication and rate problems.

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

Students show or explain how to share equally amongst a number of people.

Students use information in a table about exploding bottles of ginger beer to find the fractions and percentages of bottles that exploded or stayed sealed in given weeks.

Students identify the larger of two improper fractions and drag a number of improper and mixed fractions into ascending order.

Students order fractions from smallest to greatest, and work out fractions of an amount.

Students show or explain how to share cakes and pizzas equally amongst a number of people.