Multiplicative thinking resources

Students answer question about partitioning pizzas between people.

Students solve practical word problems.

Students convert millilitres to litres and vice versa to answer questions about the number of 200ml cups of lemonade in litre bottles.

This task is about using multiplication, division and subtraction to solve problems involving money.

Using a set unit cost students find total costs for given quantities, and find the quantity for a given total cost.

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

Students calculate the number of rocks in a wall set up as an array.

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 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 answer four multiple choice questions identifying which three-digit number can be divided by a one-digit number to get a given remainder.

Students select which four-digit numbers can be divided by a one-digit number without a remainder.

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 interpret a pie graph to answer multiple choice questions.

Students identify different ways that given amounts of money can be made up using a range of coins and notes.

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.

Student solve multiplication and division problems that involve money.

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

Students work out the cost and the weights of buying several bags of flour.

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

Students calculate scores for teams at a school swimming sports.

Students increase and decrease quantities by given percentages.

Students calculate the number of logs stacked by a group of children using information about the amount paid per log.