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Many of you have had an excellent stab at this problem - it requires a lot of perseverance - and you have come up with several ways, all of which take four steps. Matthew from Gayhurst School suggests:
$1 000 000 \times 7 = 7 000 000$Tom, who goes to The Oratory Preparatory School found a different way which is equally as quick:
$1000000\times77=77000000$Yet another way was discovered by Robert from U-Hill Secondary and pupils from the Sutton Masterclass:
$1 000 000 \times 7 = 7 000 000$Pupils from Moorfield Junior School told us about a fourth way:
$1,000,000\times 7 =7,000,000$Theo, Matthew, Seth and Jessie from Christ Church Primary School went about it in this way:
$1 000 000\div 77 777 777 = 0.0128571$This is interesting. I'm particularly intrigued by the second line. I wonder why the calculator display gives zero?
Fantastic - and to think it looked so difficult!