Number Strategies resources

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.

Students perform calculations on indoor cricket scores, which include negative numbers.

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

Students answer addition and subtraction questions about attendance at an art show.

Students find a missing number using clues about what remainder there is when the number is divided by given numbers.

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 calculate the number of games teams win or play in a season from given ratios.

Students use addition and subtraction to calculate temperatures over periods of time.

Students identify the correct change from purchasing food at a food bar.

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

Students solve subtraction story problems and show their strategies.

Students share out sets of counters into equal-sized groups.

Students show how to partition shapes into a given number of equal parts and identify the fraction of each part.

Students solve number problems involving prices which include and exclude sales tax.

For this NEMP task students performs a series of increasingly difficult addition problems presented in vertical algorithms.

For this NEMP task students calculate the answers to a series of subtraction problems.

In this practical task students order numbers from smallest to largest by gluing them onto a picture of a snake.

Students break amounts into a number of equal sized groups.

Students write standard form numbers in ordinary form.

Students find the number of groups of a given size using division, reverse multiplication, trial and improvement, or iterative equal sharing. Students must show their working.