Number Strategies resources

Using discount percentages, students calculate the sale price of clothes from the original price. They also calculate the original price of a discounted item.

Students solve addition and subtraction problems involving fractions with different denominators.

Students calculate the number of different sized bottles of cola needed to make 6 litres and calculate the cheapest option to buy 12 litres

Students identify shapes that have been shaded two-thirds and name the fraction that the other shapes have been shaded.

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 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 strategies.

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

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 show how to solve some subtraction problems.

Students answer questions about time and average speed given a rate of walking.

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 decide which children are estimating and which are not, and explain their reasoning.

Students select the best estimate for division and multiplication problems involving stamps, money, and baskets of pinecones.

Students calculate an exact square root and estimate approximate square roots by finding the length of the square flower bed of a given area, and give an explanation for their answers.

Students calculate times and speeds of scouts on a cycling tour.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different percentages.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different fractions.

This practical task requires students to determine the number of different coloured beads needed to thread onto a necklace by interpreting different decimals.