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Addition & subtraction. Factors and multiples. Multiplication & division. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Comparing and ordering numbers. Working systematically. Odd and even numbers. Generalising. Digit cards. Place value.There are 153 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?
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!
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.
Making Pathways
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
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.
Alphabetti Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.
Powerful Factorial
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
6! = 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1. The highest power of 2 that divides exactly into 6! is 4 since (6!) / (2^4 ) = 45. What is the highest power of two that divides exactly into 100!?
What Is the Question?
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
These pictures and answers leave the viewer with the problem "What is the Question". Can you give the question and how the answer follows?
Multiples Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Each clue in this Sudoku is the product of the two numbers in adjacent cells.
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.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Being Resourceful - Primary Number
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Number problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
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. . . .
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.
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?
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?
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. . . .
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.
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?
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. . . .
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
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?
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.
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.
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?
Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
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. . . .
Eminit
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?
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. . . .
Factoring Factorials
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.
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.
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.
A One in Seven Chance
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the remainder when 2^{164}is divided by 7?
Gabriel's Problem
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Gabriel multiplied together some numbers and then erased them. Can you figure out where each number was?
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.
Missing Multipliers
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?
Legs Eleven
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?
Thirty Six Exactly
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
The number 12 = 2^2 × 3 has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?
Times Right
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, mulitply a two two digit numbers are multiplied to give a four digit number, so that the expression is correct. How many different solutions can you find?
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.
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?
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?
Remainders
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
Charitable Pennies
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different ways that fifteen schools could have given money in a charity fundraiser.
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?
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!
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?
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?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.