Number Strategies resources

Students perform calculations involving rates of pay, distances, and quantities.

Students answer questions that involve adding, and subtracting several numbers.

Students answer questions involving negative numbers about rising and falling water levels.

In this practical task students put fractions of different items bought at a school fair onto a shopping bag.

For this NEMP task students calculate ratios, fractions, and percentages of numbers to solve problems involving numbers of blue and yellow bears. A sheet of coloured bears is provided.

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

Students circle part of a collection of fruit pictures to show their understanding of fractional numbers.

Students perform calculations using the times taken to carry out a range of fitness activities.

Students calculate the cost of several cans of soft drinks, the maximum number bought for a given cost, and the change given after buying several cans.

For this NEMP task students perform a series of division problems.

For this NEMP task students use addition and division to solve story problems.

For this NEMP task students work out how many cows will be in a cattle yard from a story written in comic form.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division calculations using whole numbers and decimal amounts of money.

Using clues, students identify an equivalent fraction for a given fraction.

Students use rounding to estimate totals then discuss this as a method of estimation.

Students answer questions using percentages to find missing amounts, and writing percentages using given amounts.

Students solve problems involving rates of pay based on a formula using powers, and compare this to a fixed rate of pay.

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

Students work out the change from $10 for a number of purchases.

Students answer questions about distance, speed and time, and identify an expression that describes the distance (kilometres) from the starting point in terms of time (minutes).

Students multiply, add, and subtract expressions with negative numbers.

Students use addition to calculate possible scores in a fairground game.

Students solve addition maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

Students solve subtraction maths problems and show their strategy for working it out.

Students show how to solve some addition problems.