Max Maths, Year 6, Work Book, Multiplying by a 1-digit number

In 'Max Maths, Year 6 Workbook', students are presented with exercises to enhance their multiplication skills, specifically focusing on multiplying by a 1-digit number. Practice 1 instructs students to work out multiplication problems by multiplying each place value separately and then adding the results together. For example, to calculate 152 multiplied by 5, they multiply each digit of 152 by 5 and add up the products. Similarly, for 492 multiplied by 2, they multiply each digit by 2, with an emphasis on understanding intermediate steps, such as knowing that 2 times 90 equals 180, which is derived from the fact that 2 times 9 is 18.

Moving on to the next set of exercises, students use the column method to find the product of two numbers. They are given pairs such as 2 and 249, 563 and 4, and so on, and are required to calculate the multiplication using the traditional column format. Additionally, there are exercises aimed at estimating products by rounding numbers to the nearest thousand before multiplying, followed by comparing the estimate with the actual product. This helps students understand the concept of approximation and its practical application. In the problem-solving section, a scenario is given where Padma multiplies a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number, and students must decipher the original numbers based on the given partial products and sums, such as the product of 28, which could be 7 times 4 or 14 times 2.