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Chloe has some pets. Altogether the pets have 78 legs and 25 heads. What pets could she have?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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Jack works in a chocolate factory. He has 100 chocolates to pack into of chocolate. Each box needs to be full. How many different ways can you show for the boxes of chocolate to be filled? How many boxes will Jack need each time?
How can you use materials to help you to solve this problem?
Have you got all the solutions? How can you be sure?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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Suppose you forgot what 8 x 6 is, but you remembered that 5 x 6 is 30. How could you use this fact to figure out what 8 x 6 is?
Explain a strategy you can use in this problem that will help to solve other similar problems
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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I have some jelly babies in my lolly bag. When I shared them into 2 equal groups, there was 1 left over. When I shared them into 3 equal groups, there were 2 left over. How many jelly babies could I have?
Are there other possible solutions? How can you be sure you have all the solutions?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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Benji has $30 to spend at the shop. How many different ways can you find for him to spend all the money?
Shirts $5.50
Milk $2
Have you got all the solutions? How can you be sure?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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I have 49 marbles to share equally between my friends. I can share them equally and there is one left over. How many friends could I be sharing with?
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My phone bill was $20. Using the call costs chart below, what phone calls could I have made?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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Amazing Tricks
Think of a number. Add 6. Double the result. Take away 4. Halve the result. Take away the number you first thought of. Record your working and then try with different numbers. What have you found? Think of a number. Add 5. Multiply the result by 3. Subtract 9. Divide the result by 3. Subtract 2.Record your working and then try with different numbers. What have you found? Think of a number. Double it. Add 9. Add the number you first thought of Divide the result by 3. Add 2. Subtract the original number. Record your working and then try with different numbers. What have you found?
Will the trick work with ALL numbers? How can you be sure? What did you learn from this task? What strategy did you use to help you to make tricks that would always work?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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Four men can build a house in 10 weeks. How long will it take 5 men to build the house?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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My backyard has 50m of fencing around the chicken coop. What could the area of the coop be?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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Fill out the multiples chart ad investigate common multiples of different numbers. x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
In a game of Bingo two numbers (1-12) are drawn out, then the multiple of the two numbers is called out. If the multiple is on your bingo card you can cross the number out. The first person to cross out all the numbers on their card wins. Use the chart above to investigate multiples and write a statement about what you have discovered. Use the information you have found to design a Bingo card (with 5 numbers) that would give you the great chance of winning. Explain why this card would be a good Bingo card to get, compared with a random card. Are there other cards that would be equally handy to have?
NS2.3 Uses mental and informal written strategies for multiplication and division.
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