Multiplicative thinking resources

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 calculate percentages of whole numbers.

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

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

Students calculate the perimeter and area of a composite shape.

Students use all four operations to perform calculations using decimal values.

Students use a diagram of a netball court and soccer field to calculate area.

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

Students calculate the perimeter and area of three composite shapes.

Students find fractional amounts of a total number of Easter eggs.

Students work out how many triangular prism shapes there are in larger cuboid, and answer questions about volume of both shapes.

Students identify numbers using clues which give the range within which each number falls and two factors with their remainder.

Students use the scaled plan of a property to calculate the area of the pool, house, and lawn.

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

Students answer questions about the difference between a range of given times in minutes.

Students answer questions that involve calculating the capacities of different situations.

Students convert millilitres to litres and vice versa when working out quantities of bottles and glasses of fizzy drink for a party.

Students calculate the area of an extension to a cottage and the area around the buildings.

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

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

Students convert units of weight - milligram, gram, kilogram, and tonne, in order to answer questions about potatoes.

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

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

Students calculate the cost of multiple CDs given the unit cost for a single CD.

Students calculate the area of composite shapes.