Multiplicative thinking resources

Students calculate the number of packets of biscuits that need to be sold, and how many house visits are needed to attain a given profit.

Students convert speeds of vintage cars into kilometres per hour, and calculate distances travelled at these speeds.

Students use rates to solve word problems involving cooking and preserving.

Students increase and decrease quantities by given percentages.

Students share total numbers of objects according to some given ratios in a variety of contexts.

Students estimate and explain how they estimated their answer for two number problems: one involving multiplication; and the other division.

Students perform addition, multiplication, and percentage calculations based on information about the cost of buying and posting computer programs.

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

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

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

Students demonstrate their understanding of the effect of division and multiplication involving fractions.

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