Number Strategies resources

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.

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

Students solve problems involving finding simple fractions of quantities, and show their working.

Students use fractions as operators to find unit fractions of a given whole number.

Students show how to work out the number of 1-digit that there are in 2-digit numbers.

Students calculate fraction division problems and show their working.

Students work out the missing dimension on a rectangle and show how they obtained it using proportional reasoning.