How it works
Multiply by less than one and it gets smaller. By more than one and it gets bigger. By one it stays.
4 × 1/4 is less than 4. 12 × 4/4 is the same as 12. 6 × 6/5 is more than 6.
Check the size before you calculate.
Worked examples
Less than one
- 4 × 1/4 compared with 4?
- 1/4 is less than 1.
- So 4 × 1/4 is less than 4.
- So the answer is Less.
Exactly one
- 12 × 4/4 compared with 12?
- 4/4 is the same as 1.
- So 12 × 4/4 is the same as 12.
- So the answer is The same.
More than one
- 6 × 6/5 compared with 6?
- 6/5 is more than 1.
- So 6 × 6/5 is more than 6.
- So the answer is More.
A taste of the worksheet
These are the first problems of set A. The printable sheet has many more, with an answer key.
- 7 × 4 compared with 7__
- 8 × 1/4 compared with 8__
- 4 × 1/3 compared with 4__
- 8 × 1/3 compared with 8__
- 3 × 1 compared with 3__
Words to know
- scaling
- Making something bigger or smaller by multiplying.