Place value

There are 134 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Place value
Method in multiplying madness?
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Method in multiplying madness?

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

Age
7 to 11
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A school song book contains 700 songs. The numbers of the songs are displayed by combining special small single-digit cards. What is the minimum number of small cards that is needed?
Dicey Addition
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Dicey Addition

Age
5 to 11
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Who said that adding couldn't be fun?
Clickety Click
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Clickety Click

Age
16 to 18
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What is the sum of: 6 + 66 + 666 + 6666 ............+ 666666666...6 where there are n sixes in the last term?
Double with 1 to 9
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Double with 1 to 9

Age
11 to 14
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Can you find a number and its double using the digits $1$ to $9$ only once each?
Light the Lights
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Light the Lights

Age
5 to 7
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Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
Our Numbers
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Our Numbers

Age
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?
Halfway
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Halfway

Age
11 to 14
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Can you find a number that is halfway between two fractions?
Kangaroo Subtraction
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Kangaroo Subtraction

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you solve this 'KANGAROO' alphanumeric subtraction?
Nice or Nasty
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Nice or Nasty

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...