Treating groups that contain the same number of things as ‘ones’ or ‘units’. It is important particularly in handling money and in understanding place value and supports us to think multiplicatively.

The distributive law says that multiplying a number by a group of numbers added together is the same as doing each multiplication separately.

Multiply 1-digit numbers by decimals

Maths

In this unit pupils will explain the effect of multiplying and dividing a number by 10, 100 and 1,000 and use their knowledge of multiplying decimal fractions by whole numbers to solve measures problems. In the future unit pupils will apply memorised unit conversions to convert between units of measure. They will solve measures problems involving different units including imperial units.

In the prior unit pupils calculated with decimal numbers using column addition and subtraction. In this unit pupils will explain the effect of multiplying and dividing a number by 10, 100 and 1,000 and use their knowledge of multiplying decimal fractions by whole numbers to solve measures problems.

Calculating with decimal fractions

If 9 × 14 = 126, what does 9 × 1.4 equal?

Use unitising and known facts to match the equation to its product.

Plums cost £2.35 per kilogram. Sofia buys 4 kilograms of strawberries. How much does she spend? £{{ }}

Sofia buys eight stickers. They cost £0.52 each. How much do they cost altogether? £{{ }}

Count up in 25s. What would come next? 25, 50, {{ }}

Lucas has 1.8 kg flour. Sofia has one-tenth times this amount. How much flour does Sofia have? {{ }} kg

Sofia’s flower is 87 cm tall. Lucas’ has only grown to one-hundredth times this height. How tall is Lucas’ flower? {{ }} cm

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Multiply 1-digit numbers by decimals

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.