Week 53 · Maths Practice Paper

Add: 42 + 38

Subtract: 61 − 17

Multiply: 63 × 7

Divide: 126 ÷ 6

Find the cost of downloading 6 apps if each one costs £3.45

Work out the sum of: 8, 88, 888 and 8888

Divide 4 by 0.25

Shade 20% of this shape:

There is an even chance that I will pick a toffee from a large bag of sweets containing toffees, jellies and chocolates. If the bag contains 14 jellies and 9 chocolates, how many toffees are there?

The total attendance at Premier League football matches last season was 14,832,419. Round this number to the nearest ten thousand.

Stickers cost 7p each and badges cost 5p each. I buy some stickers and badges which cost 55p exactly. How many of each did I buy?

Use the fact that 84,527 × 156 = 13,186,212 to work out 84,528 × 156

Fill in the spaces with one of +, −, ×, ÷ to make each statement correct.

The three-digit number 58_ can be divided by 3 without a remainder. What is the largest possible value that the last digit could be?

At a busy railway station trains leave from platform 3 every 8 minutes and from platform 6 every 12 minutes. Trains leave from both platforms at 14:23. When do trains next leave both platforms at the same time?

The price of a one-day ticket to a theme park is £42.00. Joe buys a ticket and experiences 10 rides during the day.

Match each object below to its most likely height or length: a lighthouse, a giraffe, a swimming pool, and a paperclip. The measurements (in no particular order) are: 0.456 km, 5.2 m, 2500 cm, 32 mm.

A teacher gives the following instructions: Think of a number. Subtract 17 from this number to get the first result. Go back to the original number and subtract 9 to get the second result. Multiply the first and second results together to get the final answer.

Consider these six quadrilaterals: kite, rectangle, parallelogram, square, trapezium, rhombus. List all possible quadrilaterals from this list which have the following properties:

48 children choose their favourite subject from English, Mathematics and Science. A pie chart shows that English takes up a quarter of the circle, and Mathematics takes up 33⅓%.

If it is snowing then I wear boots. If it is windy then I carry an umbrella. If I wear boots then I also wear either a scarf or gloves but not both. If I carry an umbrella I always wear gloves and sometimes wear a scarf as well. I never carry an umbrella and wear boots on the same day. For each of the following, state whether it is definitely true, false or uncertain.

A sunflower seed takes a week to germinate after it has been sown in the ground. After germination it grows the same number of centimetres each day. Maya sows a sunflower seed. She measures the height of the plant at midday on the 20th July and again at midday on the 25th July. These two measurements are recorded as 42cm and 72cm respectively.

A rectangular playground has a top edge divided into 3 equal segments and each side edge divided into 2 equal segments, each segment being 30 metres.

A clock shows the time 7:35.

Once upon a time, in the Ancient Land of Haberdasher's: One pound = 20 shillings, one shilling = 12 pence. A large Margarine-beer costs 1 pound 7 shillings and 6 pence. A small Margarine-beer costs 16 shillings and 8 pence.

An empty jug is filled with water at a constant rate. For each of the following jug shapes, describe the type of height-vs-time graph you would get:

Four rectangular shapes have the following width and area values: Shape A (width 3, area 12), Shape B (width 4, area 8), Shape C (width 2, area 12), Shape D (width 8, area 8).

The diagram shows one-way cycle paths in a park connecting five points A, B, C, D, E in a line. There are 3 different direct paths from A to B, 1 from B to C, 2 from C to D, and 2 from D to E. There is also 1 direct path from A to D (bypassing B and C), and 1 direct path straight from A to E.

A sequence of numbers which get multiplied (or divided) by a fixed amount each time is called a geometric progression (GP).

Seven elves work in a toy workshop. As Head Elf, Holly earns as much as all seven elves put together. Echo gets 20 galleons a day. Hazel earns 25% more than Ivy. Fern earns twice as much as Oak who earns two more galleons than Echo. Willow gets 20 galleons a day more than Birch and between them they get five times that of Echo. Hazel earns three-quarters of Echo's salary.