Number Strategies resources

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

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

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

Students use multiplication to solve problems about window cleaning an office building.

Students evaluate a number of expressions involving the laws of indices.

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

Students use addition and subtraction to solve story problems.

Students draw lines to divide up shapes into fractional parts.

This task requires students to estimate some addition problems using any appropriate method.

Students estimate the sum of a number of fractions.

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

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 calculate percentage increases and decreases for odd jobs and show their working.

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 working.

Students answer maths problems involving multiplication and show their strategies.