Number Strategies resources

For this NEMP task students use multiplication and division operations in calculations involving fractions.

Students identify equivalent fractions, and write fractions in their simplest forms.

Students add and subtract fractions to work out fractions of food.

For this NEMP task students perform calculations using fractions and mixed numbers.

For this practical task students model the fractions 1/10, 1/8, and 1/6 using plasticine, then name the remainder for each fraction.

In this practical task students order proper fractions on a number line between 0 and 1.

Students compare the strength of drinks with different rates of drink powder per volume of water.

Students work out the costs and the best value for money of a range of tomato sauce bottles.

Students work out the stock rate (number of sheep per hectare) for a farm and use it to determine the maximum number of sheep for the winter.

Students answer multiple-choice questions involving total weight and a number of objects.

Students use the number of words typed in a given time to work out the number of words typed per minute and per hour.

Students evaluate how many complete times a number divides into another when there is a remainder.

Students answer questions involving finding how many of one fraction goes into another fraction.

The price of various amounts of diesel is required given its price per litre as well as writing out how much diesel can be bought for a given price.

Students work out what fractions of shapes have been shaded.

Students use cuisenaire rods to work out part-whole fraction problems.

Students use percentages to calculate heights of a building from the total height. They then explain how to calculate another percentage.

In this practical task students use counters to show fractions of whole numbers.

Students show how to divide 3-digit whole numbers into equal sized groups and identify any remainder.

Students to show how to calculate problems that involve rates and ratios.

Students use doubling and halving to solve multiplication problems.

This task is about working out change for a variety of purchases.

Students calculate how price changes affect a purchase.

Using information given in pictures students write four word problems using the operation set out in each instruction.

Students answer multiple choice questions about finding percentages of a whole number, and express a quantity as a percentage of another.