Multiplicative thinking resources

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

Students find the biggest and smallest numbers from a list of positive and negative numbers. They add, subtract and multiply using these numbers.

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

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 show or explain how two different fraction numbers can represent the same fraction.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students express fractions, related distances covered, as percentages.

Students decide if a percentage statement is correct and explain their answer.

Students answer questions involving finding fractions in story problems about marbles and write their answer in its simplest form.

Students calculate percentages of whole numbers and convert fractions to percentages.

Students estimate a multiplication problem, share their methods, discuss the front-end method, and then do more problems using front-end.

Students answer questions about time and average speed given a rate of walking.

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

Students calculate the numbers of pieces of fruit and vegetables divided evenly into bags, and any remainder.

In this task students decide which people are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

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

Students calculate times and speeds of scouts on a cycling tour.

Students show how they would carry out estimation of multiplication tasks.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different percentages.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different fractions.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different decimals.

In this practical task, students are to estimate the cost of meals ordered from a menu. The teacher reads out the meals and students show the steps in their estimations.

Students calculate fractions of a given number of marbles.

Students estimate (and explain how) the area of two islands on a grid.