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Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Multiplication & division
Activities on the Gattegno Chart
Age 5 to 11
In this article, Alf outlines six activities using the Gattegno chart, which help to develop understanding of place value, multiplication and division.
Picture Your Method
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you match these calculation methods to their visual representations?
Compare the Calculations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you put these four calculations into order of difficulty? How did you decide?
Let's Get Flexible!
Age 5 to 11
In this article for primary teachers, Ems outlines how we can encourage learners to be flexible in their approach to calculation, and why this is crucial.
Can You Make 100?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
How many ways can you find to put in operation signs (+ - x ÷) to make 100?
More Playing with Numbers Upper Primary
Age 7 to 11
More resources to support understanding multiplication and division through playing with numbers
Odds and Threes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
Current Playing with Number Upper Primary Teacher
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Resources to support understanding of multiplication and division through playing with number.
More Playing with Number Upper Primary
Age 7 to 11
Related resources supporting pupils' understanding of multiplication and division through playing with numbers.
Four Go for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Four Go game for an adult and child. Will you be the first to have four numbers in a row on the number line?
Making Pathways
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
Wild Jack
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more players with a pack of cards. Practise your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to hit the target score.
Being Resourceful - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
What's My Weight?
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
There are four equal weights on one side of the scale and an apple on the other side. What can you say that is true about the apple and the weights from the picture?
Being Resilient - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require resilience.
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?
Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
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?
Integrated Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku puzzle can be solved with the help of small clue-numbers on the border lines between pairs of neighbouring squares of the grid.
Fair Feast
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?
Back to School
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Mr. Sunshine tells the children they will have 2 hours of homework. After several calculations, Harry says he hasn't got time to do this homework. Can you see where his reasoning is wrong?
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.
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
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?
Alphabetti Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.
Multiples Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.
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!
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?
A Mixed-up Clock
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
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?
Largest Number
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the largest number you can make using the three digits 2, 3 and 4 in any way you like, using any operations you like? You can only use each digit once.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
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.
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.
Ones Only
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the smallest whole number which, when mutiplied by 7, gives a product consisting entirely of ones.
Interactive Balance
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this simulation of a balance, you can drag numbers and parts of number sentences on to the trays. Have a play!
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.
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?
Journeys on the Gattegno Tens Chart
Age 5 to 11
Alf describes how the Gattegno chart helped a class of 7-9 year olds gain an awareness of place value and of the inverse relationship between multiplication and division.
Numbers Numbers Everywhere!
Age 5 to 11
Bernard Bagnall recommends some primary school problems which use numbers from the environment around us, from clocks to house numbers.
Square Subtraction
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at what happens when you take a number, square it and subtract your answer. What kind of number do you get? Can you prove it?
Jumping
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
After training hard, these two children have improved their results. Can you work out the length or height of their first jumps?
Multiply the Addition Square
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
If you take a three by three square on a 1-10 addition square and multiply the diagonally opposite numbers together, what is the difference between these products. Why?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
One Million to Seven
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Start by putting one million (1 000 000) into the display of your calculator. Can you reduce this to 7 using just the 7 key and add, subtract, multiply, divide and equals as many times as you like?
Next Number
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
Funny Factorisation
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Using the digits 1 to 9, the number 4396 can be written as the product of two numbers. Can you find the factors?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.