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Multiplication and division
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All these activities have something to do with multiplying and dividing. Can you spot the connections?
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Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Resources to support understanding of multiplication and division through playing with number.
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Doing and undoing
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
An investigation looking at doing and undoing mathematical operations focusing on doubling, halving, adding and subtracting.
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Ordering cards
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
This problem is designed to help children to learn, and to use, the two and three times tables.
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Let us divide!
Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
Look at different ways of dividing things. What do they mean? How might you show them in a picture, with things, with numbers and symbols?
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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?
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Odd times Even
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.
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So it's times!
Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?