Multiplication and division

  • Fair Feast
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    Fair Feast

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?

  • Ordering cards
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    Ordering Cards

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This problem is designed to help children to learn, and to use, the two and three times tables.

  • Doing and undoing
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    Doing and Undoing

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This investigation involving the four operations looks at doing and undoing.

  • Interactive Balance
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    Interactive Balance

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In this simulation of a balance, you can drag numbers and parts of number sentences on to the trays. Have a play!

  • Dicey Array
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    Dicey Array

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Watch the video of this game being played. Can you work out the rules? Which dice totals are good to get, and why?

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    The Puzzling Sweet Shop

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    What could each of the children buy in the sweet shop?

  • Growing Garlic
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    Growing Garlic

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

  • Odd times Even
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    Odd Times Even

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.

  • Dicey Operations in Line
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    Dicey Operations in Line

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In these addition, subtraction, multiplication and division games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

  • Doplication
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    Doplication

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice. What do you notice?