Module 3 Calculating
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Can I use my tables to multiply and divide?

Example review questions

  • 5-second mental questions
    • What is seven multiplied by eight?
    • Divide 64 by eight.
    • What is the product of six and nine?
    • What is 150 divided by five?
    • How many fours are there in 120?
    • Explain the strategies you used to answer these questions.
  • 10-second mental questions
    • What is 25 times five?
    • What is three multiplied by five multiplied by two?
    • How many 50s are there in 1000?
      How did you work this out?
  • 15-second mental questions
    • What is 300 divided by 15?
    • What is 0.7 × 5? What other facts could you work out from 0.7 × 5?

Teaching guidance

This teaching guidance document suggests some of the key vocabulary, models, images and practical equipment that children should experience and be able to use. It also includes some teaching tips to provide a few starting points for ways of supporting children with this area of mathematics.

PDF file Can I use my tables to multiply and divide? - teaching guidance | 80KB new window

Consolidation and practice

These resources are to support children in guided or independent work. Roll over the highlighted resources for a description.

PDF file How to use number dials ITP | 128KB new window

SWF file Number dials ITP | 38KB new window

PDF file How to use multiplication tables ITP | 74KB new window

SWF file Multiplication tables ITP | 29KB new window

PDF file How to use multiplication board ITP | 212KB new window

SWF file Multiplication board ITP | 24KB new window

SWF file Swimming race | 120KB new window

SWF file Long jump | 89KB new window

PDF file Springboard 5, Unit 9 (Additional materials) Approaches for building up multiplication and division facts | 111KB new window

PDF file Springboard 6, Lesson 2 Resources | 25KB new window

Number dials

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This interactive teaching program (ITP) is an ICT-based tool to support the exploration and recall of multiplication and division facts. Number dials ITP allows the child or teacher to generate sets of products of a central number and numbers from 1 to 10. The ITP can be used to practise multiplying and dividing by one-digit and two-digit whole numbers and decimals.

Multiplication tables

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This interactive teaching program (ITP) is an ICT-based tool to support the exploration of multiplication facts. Multiplication tables ITP allows the child or teacher to set up one or more multiplication tables, hiding or revealing either of the factors or the product. Decimal numbers can be explored using the keypad.

Multiplication board

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This interactive teaching program (ITP) is an ICT-based tool to support the exploration of multiplication and division facts. Multiplication board ITP allows the child or teacher to represent the product of two numbers as an array, displaying the product and factors.

PDF file Springboard 6, Lesson 2 Multiplication and division | 46KB new window

PDF file Springboard 7, Unit 9, Sections 2, 3 and 4 Multiples, tests of divisibility and factors | 1.2MB new window

Opportunities to use and apply

Possible contexts include:

  • solving simple problems involving ratio and proportion, e.g. At the gym club there are two boys for every three girls. There are 30 children in the club. How many boys are there?
  • relating division and fractions, e.g. Knowing 1/3 of 24 is equivalent to 24 ÷ 3.
  • finding fractions of numbers and quantities, e.g. What is 4/5 of 35?
  • using factors, e.g. Working out 90 ÷ 6 by dividing 90 by three and dividing the resulting quotient by two.
  • area and perimeter, e.g. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 120 cm. How long is each side?

Confirming learning

Ask probing questions such as:

  • Describe some connections between 6, 7 and 42, using the words multiple and factor.
  • Write three different multiplications with a product of 40.
  • Write three different divisions with a quotient of nine.
  • If you multiply me by three, you will get 24. What number am I?
  • Multiples of six end in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8. Is this statement true or false?
  • Multiples of seven are all even. True or false? How do you know?
  • Name all the multiples of nine between 80 and 100.
  • Name three numbers that are multiples of six as well as multiples of five.