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Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Multiplication & division
It Figures
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
Magic Constants
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?
Sending Cards
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge asks you to investigate the total number of cards that would be sent if four children send one to all three others. How many would be sent if there were five children? Six?
Bundles of Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Watch this animation. What do you notice? What happens when you try more or fewer cubes in a bundle?
Exploring Wild & Wonderful Number Patterns
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.
A-magical Number Maze
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a total of 15!
Route Product
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Find the product of the numbers on the routes from A to B. Which route has the smallest product? Which the largest?
Zargon Glasses
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to make all the different orders for 9 families?
Making Longer, Making Shorter
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?
Forgot the Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
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?
Dice and Spinner Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If you had any number of ordinary dice, what are the possible ways of making their totals 6? What would the product of the dice be each time?
X Is 5 Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you arrange 5 different digits (from 0 - 9) in the cross in the way described?
Arranging the Tables
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There are 44 people coming to a dinner party. There are 15 square tables that seat 4 people. Find a way to seat the 44 people using all 15 tables, with no empty places.
Function Machines
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If the numbers 5, 7 and 4 go into this function machine, what numbers will come out?
Rabbits in the Pen
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Using the statements, can you work out how many of each type of rabbit there are in these pens?
Sept03 Sept03 Sept03
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This number has 903 digits. What is the sum of all 903 digits?
Month Mania
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you design a new shape for the twenty-eight squares and arrange the numbers in a logical way? What patterns do you notice?
Next Number
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
Twenty Divided Into Six
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same total. What was the total and how could this be done?
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
How Old?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Cherri, Saxon, Mel and Paul are friends. They are all different ages. Can you find out the age of each friend using the information?
The Puzzling Sweet Shop
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children buy with their money?
Doplication
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
ABC
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In the multiplication calculation, some of the digits have been replaced by letters and others by asterisks. Can you reconstruct the original multiplication?
Multiplication Series: Illustrating Number Properties with Arrays
Age 5 to 11
This article for teachers describes how modelling number properties involving multiplication using an array of objects not only allows children to represent their thinking with concrete materials,. . . .
Starfish Spotting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many starfish could there be on the beach, and how many children, if I can see 28 arms?
Domino Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
Napier's Bones
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The Scot, John Napier, invented these strips about 400 years ago to help calculate multiplication and division. Can you work out how to use Napier's bones to find the answer to these multiplications?
Penta Post
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are the prices for 1st and 2nd class mail within the UK. You have an unlimited number of each of these stamps. Which stamps would you need to post a parcel weighing 825g?
How Much Did it Cost?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Asteroid Blast
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Use your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to blast the asteroids.
Little Man
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
The Man is much smaller than us. Can you use the picture of him next to a mug to estimate his height and how much tea he drinks?
How Many Eggs?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Peter, Melanie, Amil and Jack received a total of 38 chocolate eggs. Use the information to work out how many eggs each person had.
The Money Maze
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Go through the maze, collecting and losing your money as you go. Which route gives you the highest return? And the lowest?
Dividing a Cake
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Annie cut this numbered cake into 3 pieces with 3 cuts so that the numbers on each piece added to the same total. Where were the cuts and what fraction of the whole cake was each piece?
Mobile Numbers
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this investigation, you are challenged to make mobile phone numbers which are easy to remember. What happens if you make a sequence adding 2 each time?
Cows and Sheep
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use your logical reasoning to work out how many cows and how many sheep there are in each field.
The Number Crunching Machine
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Put a number at the top of the machine and collect a number at the bottom. What do you get? Which numbers get back to themselves?
Being Resourceful - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Today's Date - 01/06/2009
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
What do you notice about the date 03.06.09? Or 08.01.09? This challenge invites you to investigate some interesting dates yourself.
Sometimes We Lose Things
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Well now, what would happen if we lost all the nines in our number system? Have a go at writing the numbers out in this way and have a look at the multiplications table.
Children's Mathematical Graphics: Understanding the Key Concept
Age 5 to 7
In this article for teachers, Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington explore the differences between 'recording mathematics' and 'representing mathematical thinking'.
Place Value as a Building Block for Developing Fluency in the Calculation Process
Age 5 to 11
This article for primary teachers encourages exploration of two fundamental ideas, exchange and 'unitising', which will help children become more fluent when calculating.
Developing Number Fluency - What, Why and How
Age 5 to 11
In this article for primary teachers, Lynne McClure outlines what is meant by fluency in the context of number and explains how our selection of NRICH tasks can help.
Oh! Harry!
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
Number Tracks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Ben’s class were cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
Oranges and Lemons
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
On the table there is a pile of oranges and lemons that weighs exactly one kilogram. Using the information, can you work out how many lemons there are?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.