Number Strategies resources

Students calculate how many adults got into a concert for free using information about the number of concert-goers and the ratio of free adults to children.

Students perform calculations using standard form.

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

Students find the biggest and smallest numbers from a list of positive and negative numbers. They add, subtract and multiply using these numbers.

This task is about subtracting with different parts of the equation missing.

Students find and show given fractions of shapes and sets of counters.

Students solve multiplication problems involving negative numbers, finding the biggest and the smallest products.

Different selections are made from a canteen menu that will cost a given amount. An extension activity is given that asks for all possible combinations to be found.

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

Students use number lines to show how to solve whole number addition and subtraction problems.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students answer questions involving adding and subtracting fractions of food.

Students work out different percentages of a sum of money and the percentage of money left over.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate the changing balance in a students back account.

Students work out how many cups of juice can be made or how many runs can be scored from given rates.

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 use ratios and proportional reasoning to compute various amounts.

Students calculate the quantity and time taken for pages to be printed on a computer printer from the rate at which it prints.

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

This task requires students to show how to estimate numbers of items in some multiplication problems using any acceptable estimation strategy.

Students answer questions using a fraction as an operator to find the fraction quantities.

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

Students find the sum of a number of given decimal weights of objects or the post.

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

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