### Forgot the Numbers

On my calculator I divided one whole number by another whole number and got the answer 3.125 If the numbers are both under 50, what are they?

### Shapes in a Grid

Can you find which shapes you need to put into the grid to make the totals at the end of each row and the bottom of each column?

What happens when you add the digits of a number then multiply the result by 2 and you keep doing this? You could try for different numbers and different rules.

# So It's Times!

## So It's Times!

This activity has been particularly created for the most able. (The pupils that you come across in many classrooms just once every few years.)

On the table in front of you is a grid like this:-

Now imagine that you have another grid, just the same but made of plastic that you can see through.
You place the plastic one over the one on the table so that it covers it completely.
You could have flipped it over and/or turned it around as you put the plastic one down.
Then the numbers that are paired, one above the other are multiplied together.
Finally, all the results of multiplying together will be added together.

Without doing the $36$ multiplications and then adding them together YOUR challenge is to say which way of flipping over and/or turning the plastic grid will give you the highest total and which way will give the lowest total.

### Why do this problem?

This problem is presented for the very highest-attaining pupils and can challenge them both in number and spatial skills.

### Possible approach

If necessary before approaching the $6$ by $6$ array, present two sheets with a $4$ by $4$ array. Try not to go  through it completely, but just try a couple of multiplications and then turn the top sheet over (or around, or both) and see what a few of the multiplications would be then.

The six by six grid can be printed from here (docpdf), and then presented to the pupil(s). The challenge may need to be explained very clearly so as to prevent a lot of unnecessary calculations being made.

### Key questions

How did you arrive at this?
Explain to me the solutions that you have come to.
What else could you explore?

### Possible extension

Children could have a go at It's Times Again.