Multiplication and division: Age 7-11

This collection is one of our Primary Curriculum collections - tasks that are grouped by topic.

problem

One wasn't square

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Mrs Morgan, the class's teacher, pinned numbers onto the backs of three children. Use the information to find out what the three numbers were.

problem

All the digits

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?

problem

Cycling squares

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you make a cycle of pairs that add to make a square number using all the numbers in the box below, once and once only?

problem

Trebling

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you replace the letters with numbers? Is there only one solution in each case?

problem

Multiplication square jigsaw

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?

problem

Shape times shape

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?

problem

What do you need?

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?

problem

Three dice

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?

problem

How do you do it?

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

This group activity will encourage you to share calculation strategies and to think about which strategy might be the most efficient.

problem

Table patterns go wild!

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Nearly all of us have made table patterns on hundred squares, that is 10 by 10 grids. This problem looks at the patterns on differently sized square grids.