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Working systematically. Addition & subtraction. Comparing and Ordering numbers. Multiplication & division. Digit cards. Place value. Odd and even numbers. Generalising. Factors and multiples. Mathematical reasoning & proof.There are 147 results
Broad Topics > Calculations and Numerical Methods > Multiplication & division
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?
Making Pathways
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
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?
Repeaters
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Explain why whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
Why 8?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose any four consecutive even numbers. Multiply the two middle numbers together. Multiply the first and last numbers. Now subtract your second answer from the first. Try it with your own. . . .
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.
Calendar Calculations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try adding together the dates of all the days in one week. Now multiply the first date by 7 and add 21. Can you explain what happens?
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?
Please Explain
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Visitors to Earth from the distant planet of Zub-Zorna were amazed when they found out that when the digits in this multiplication were reversed, the answer was the same! Find a way to explain. . . .
Adding All Nine
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Make a set of numbers that use all the digits from 1 to 9, once and once only. Add them up. The result is divisible by 9. Add each of the digits in the new number. What is their sum? Now try some. . . .
Being Resourceful - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
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.
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?
Six Ten Total
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This challenge combines addition, multiplication, perseverance and even proof.
Six Numbered Cubes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task combines spatial awareness with addition and multiplication.
Alphabetti Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.
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.
Going Round in Circles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Mathematicians are always looking for efficient methods for solving problems. How efficient can you be?
Tom's Number
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will only answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Double Digit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Choose two digits and arrange them to make two double-digit numbers. Now add your double-digit numbers. Now add your single digit numbers. Divide your double-digit answer by your single-digit answer. . . .
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?
Gift Stacks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the information to work out how many gifts there are in each pile.
Clever Santa
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
All the girls would like a puzzle each for Christmas and all the boys would like a book each. Solve the riddle to find out how many puzzles and books Santa left.
Clock Face
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Where can you draw a line on a clock face so that the numbers on both sides have the same total?
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?
Fingers and Hands
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How would you count the number of fingers in these pictures?
Escape from the Castle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Skippy and Anna are locked in a room in a large castle. The key to that room, and all the other rooms, is a number. The numbers are locked away in a problem. Can you help them to get out?
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?
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?
Book Codes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look on the back of any modern book and you will find an ISBN code. Take this code and calculate this sum in the way shown. Can you see what the answers always have in common?
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Sept03 Sept03 Sept03
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This number has 903 digits. What is the sum of all 903 digits?
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?
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?
Being Resilient - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that may require resilience.
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?
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.
As Easy as 1,2,3
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When I type a sequence of letters my calculator gives the product of all the numbers in the corresponding memories. What numbers should I store so that when I type 'ONE' it returns 1, and when I type. . . .
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.
Power Mad!
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
Oh! Hidden Inside?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the number which has 8 divisors, such that the product of the divisors is 331776.
Next Number
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Find the next number in this pattern: 3, 7, 19, 55 ...
Divide it Out
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the lowest number which always leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by each of the numbers from 2 to 10?
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?
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?
Difficulties with Division
Age 5 to 11
This article for teachers looks at how teachers can use problems from the NRICH site to help them teach division.
Ducking and Dividing
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Your vessel, the Starship Diophantus, has become damaged in deep space. Can you use your knowledge of times tables and some lightning reflexes to survive?
Looking at Lego
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This task offers an opportunity to explore all sorts of number relationships, but particularly multiplication.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.