Tables teaser
Starfish spotting
Multiplication square jigsaw
Shape times shape
These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?
Missing multipliers
Looking at Lego
This task offers an opportunity to explore all sorts of number relationships, but particularly multiplication.
Mystery matrix
Ducking and dividing
Your vessel, the Starship Diophantus, has become damaged in deep space. Can you use your knowledge of times tables and some lightning reflexes to survive?
Catrina's cards
Clapping times
Lots of lollies
Frances and Rishi were given a bag of lollies. They shared them out evenly and had one left over. How many lollies could there have been in the bag?
Zios and Zepts
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Factor lines
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
Multiples grid
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
Factor-multiple chains
Can you see how these factor-multiple chains work? Find the chain which contains the smallest possible numbers. How about the largest possible numbers?