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Visualising. Working systematically. Making and proving conjectures. Odd and even numbers. Multiplication & division. Addition & subtraction. Generalising. Factors and multiples. Place value. Mathematical reasoning & proof.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?
Alphabetti Sudoku
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
This Sudoku requires you to do some working backwards before working forwards.
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.
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.
Six Numbered Cubes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This task combines spatial awareness with addition and multiplication.
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.
Six Ten Total
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This challenge combines addition, multiplication, perseverance and even proof.
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?
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?
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. . . .
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?
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. . . .
One O Five
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
You can work out the number someone else is thinking of as follows. Ask a friend to think of any natural number less than 100. Then ask them to tell you the remainders when this number is divided by. . . .
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?
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!?
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.
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.
A First Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Factoring Factorials
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Find the highest power of 11 that will divide into 1000! exactly.
Product Sudoku
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Making Pathways
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you find different ways of creating paths using these paving slabs?
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. . . .
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.
The Remainders Game
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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!
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?
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?
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?
Largest Product
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Which set of numbers that add to 10 have the largest product?
The Genie in the Jar
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
This jar used to hold perfumed oil. It contained enough oil to fill granid silver bottles. Each bottle held enough to fill ozvik golden goblets and each goblet held enough to fill vaswik crystal. . . .
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?
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?
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.
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. . . .
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.
Surprising Split
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Does this 'trick' for calculating multiples of 11 always work? Why or why not?
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?
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. . . .
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?
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?
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.
X Marks the Spot
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
When the number x 1 x x x is multiplied by 417 this gives the answer 9 x x x 0 5 7. Find the missing digits, each of which is represented by an "x" .
Magic Potting Sheds
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.