Number Strategies resources

Students answer question about partitioning pizzas between people.

Students convert fractions to percentages and write percentages in their simplest fractional form.

Students explain errors in calculations that include all operations, decimal values, and percentages.

Students calculate the changes to an account balance after two withdrawals and a deposit.

Students answer questions about fractions of different wholes (units).

Students use multiplication and division to work out the number of boxes of cherries picked, and cartons filled.

Students answer questions that require calculations with distance, time and speed.

Students solve practical word problems.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication, and show their working.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication and show their strategies.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students show how they perform an addition and a subtraction problem, and write their own subtraction story problem.

Students compute how much each of two people get when given amounts are divided according to given ratios in a variety of contexts.

Students recommend which store offers the cheapest product based on calculations of percentage increase or decrease, and fully justify their answers.

Students answer questions about total cost, cheapest, most expensive, and the maximum number of books that can be bought. Book prices are decimal numbers.

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 show how to solve some subtraction problems.

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.

Students identify the least number of coins needed to make up specified amounts of money.

Students show how to divide given amounts into the number of groups of a given size.