Multiplication and division

  • Ordering cards
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    Ordering cards

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This problem is designed to help children to learn, and to use, the two and three times tables.

  • Let us divide!
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    Let us divide!

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    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?

  • Square subtraction
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    Square subtraction

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    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?

  • Odd times Even
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    Odd times even

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    This problem looks at how one example of your choice can show something about the general structure of multiplication.

  • So it's times!
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    So it's times!

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?

  • Method in multiplying madness?
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    Method in multiplying madness?

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?

  • Escape from the castle
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    Escape from the castle

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Skippy and Anna are locked in a room in a large castle. The key to that room, and all the other rooms, is a number. The numbers are locked away in a problem. Can you help them to get out?
  • Jumping
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    Jumping

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    After training hard, these two children have improved their results. Can you work out the length or height of their first jumps?

  • Can you Make 100?
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    Can you make 100?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many ways can you find to put in operation signs (+, −, ×, ÷) to make 100?

  • problem

    This Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!