What number is six times greater than 10?

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Can't quite get my head round the wording of the question but we have an answer- can I check it with you lot please?

Yr 3

You can't make the answer 60 (or 70!) by majority vote - the question is incorrectly worded and has no answer.

The current National Curriculum does not refer to "greater than" or "more than" problems, but the new one (to be used for KS1 and 2 maths from September 2015) does (in the non-statutory guidance for the Year 1 programme of work):

"Problems should include the terms: put together, add, altogether, total, take away, distance between, difference between, more than and less than, so that pupils develop the concept of addition and subtraction and are enabled to use these operations flexibly."

This clearly identifies "more than" (which is synonymous with "greater than" but the former term is preferred at KS1 and KS2) as relating to a subtractive difference not a multiplicative one.

Did you ever find the school's answer to this Curly?

Us we need to know the answer!