TIMSS assesses students’ ability to multiply and divide whole numbers. Students do so without access to a calculator. There appears to be a strong emphasis on applying rates and ratios. Simple rates are relationships like 5 kilometres per hour, and ratios are similar relationships, such as 2 green cards for every three red cards.
These units of work will improve students’ understanding of multiplication and division across a range of contexts:
- Productive Thinking
- Combos
- Dare to compare
- Equality with multiplication and division
- Eggs and a little bacon
Students will also benefit from working independently or collaboratively on the following student e-ako on the Multiplicative thinking pathway (information about e-ako maths):
- MD3.20: Exploring arrays and using known multiplication and division facts
- MD3.30+: Using known multiplication facts to solve problems
- MD3.40: Using multiplication and division facts, and place value 1
- MD3.50: Using multiplication and division facts, and place value 2
- MD3.60: Using multiplication and division facts, and place value 3
- MD3.60+: Using multiplication and division facts, and place value 4
- MD3.70: Applying a range of multiplicative strategies 1
- MD3.80: Applying a range of multiplicative strategies 2
- MD3.90: Applying a range of multiplicative strategies 3
Figure It Out resources for multiplication and division at Level 3 include:
- Adobe Bricks
- Arcade Adventure
- Busking Blues
- Calculator Golf
- A cat from the animal shelter
- Christmas Bonus
- Clean Cars
- Cup Fever
- Digital Dilemmas
- Don’t ditch the boat
- Dotty People
- Face the facts
- Fives and tens
- Fresh eggs for sale
- Fun rides
- Grocery Grapplers
- Hard times
- Keeping score
- Movie Maths
- Pitoitoi pecks
- Quirky Cards