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Math 4 · Unit 17: Multiplication and division · Cambridge Primary Maths Stage 4

17.1 Developing written methods of multiplication

17 questions · e.g. Each tray has 270 cells, 4 seeds in each …

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  1. 1. Worked example: Ingrid plants 4 seeds in each cell of a tray. The tray has 270 cells, and she fills every cell. Estimate how many seeds she plants, then work out how many seeds altogether.

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  2. 2. Leanne collects 2 comics each month for a year. How many comics does she collect in a year?

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  3. 3. Mr Singh has 13 boxes of tinned tomatoes. Each box contains 6 tins of tomatoes. How many tins has he got altogether?

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  4. 4. Someone worked out 47 × 6 and wrote 2442. What is wrong?

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  5. 5. Orla estimates the answer to 298 × 8 to be 2400. Is this a good estimate?

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  6. 6. Fatima reads 48 pages of a book. Parveen reads four times as many pages as Fatima. How many more pages did Parveen read than Fatima?

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  7. 7. Find the product of 58 and 5.

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  8. 8. Multiply the numbers in two circles to give the number in the square between them. Fill in the missing numbers.

    1974133

    Fill the blanks with these.

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  9. 9. Multiply the numbers in two circles to give the number in the square between them. Fill in the missing numbers.

    1738

    Fill the blanks with these.

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  10. 10. Erik and Ollie both work out 345 × 4. Who has the correct answer?

    Erik100s10s1s345×4128012Ollie100s10s1s345×4138012
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  11. 11. Milly buys 4 packets of red balloons. Paula buys 2 packets of blue balloons. Milly says, 'I have four times as many balloons as Paula.' Is Milly correct?

    16 red balloons8 blue balloons
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  12. 12. Here are the digit cards 1, 3, 5, 7 and 0. Use three of these cards to make this calculation correct. Which one works?

    13570×= 150
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  13. 13. Use the digits 1, 2, 8 and 9 to make the multiplication that has the greatest product.

    ×=

    Fill the blanks with these.

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  14. 14. Someone worked out 741 × 5 and wrote 3525. What is the correct answer?

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  15. 15. Here are four digit cards 2, 4, 6 and 8. Use three of these cards to make this calculation correct. Which calculation is correct?

    24680×=30
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  16. 16. Write the **same** digit in each box to make the calculation correct: 4☐6 × ☐ = 3332

    46×3332
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  17. 17. Magda says, 'If you add three consecutive numbers, the sum is three times the middle number.' Is she right?

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