Multiplicative thinking resources

Students use ratios and proportional reasoning to compute various amounts.

Students work out the cost of items of clothing both before and after GST has been added to them.

Students calculate the cost per kilogram of three confectionery hampers.

Students perform calculations using whole numbers and negative numbers.

Task: calculate answer to questions about speed, distance, and time. Assessment focus: using a formula.

Students write ratios in their simplest form.

Students identify and give rules for when numbers are divisible by three or by nine.

Students identify square and cubic numbers mentally in a timed test.

Students use given ratios to determine the number of people performing kapa haka.