Multiplication and division

There are 238 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Multiplication and division
Fair Feast
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Fair feast

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5 to 11
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Here is a picnic that Petros and Michael are going to share equally. Can you tell us what each of them will have?

Making Longer, Making Shorter
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Making longer, making shorter

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5 to 7
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Ahmed is making rods using different numbers of cubes. Which rod is twice the length of his first rod?

Oh! Harry!
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Oh! harry!

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7 to 11
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A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
Our Numbers
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Our numbers

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5 to 7
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These spinners will give you the tens and unit digits of a number. Can you choose sets of numbers to collect so that you spin six numbers belonging to your sets in as few spins as possible?

Orange Drink
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Orange drink

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7 to 11
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A 750 ml bottle of concentrated orange squash is enough to make fifteen 250 ml glasses of diluted orange drink. How much water is needed to make 10 litres of this drink?

Integrated Product Sudoku
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Integrated product sudoku

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11 to 16
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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.
Shut the box
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Shut the box

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5 to 7
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An old game with lots of arithmetic!

Follow the numbers
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Follow the numbers

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7 to 11
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What happens when you add the digits of a number then multiply the result by 2 and you keep doing this? You could try for different numbers and different rules.

Highest and Lowest
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Highest and lowest

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7 to 11
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Put operations signs between the numbers 3 4 5 6 to make the highest possible number and lowest possible number.
All the Digits
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All the digits

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7 to 11
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This multiplication uses each of the digits 0 - 9 once and once only. Using the information given, can you replace the stars in the calculation with figures?