The Mystery of the Missing Felt Pen!

Mrs Pickles loves to use bright coloured felt pens in her classroom. She has a large range
of felt tips - ones to use for colouring pictures, ones for children to use for art and special
ones to use on windows. One of Mrs Pickles most prized possessions is a set of extra precious
felt pens that only she is allowed to use. One of her classroom rules is to always put the
felt pen back in the correct packet and the students in her class strive to always do this.
One Monday morning when she arrives at her classroom she notices a stray felt pen on
the ground. Solve the clues below to work out where it belongs and which student solves
the mystery!

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 Colour Type of Felt Where it was Found Who Solves the Mystery

Red Art Felts On the Ground Maria

Red Colouring Felts On the Ground Brian

Red Window Felts At the Art Table Jody

Red Mrs Pickles' Felts At the Art Table Peter

Purple Art Felts Next to the Bin Oliver

Purple Colouring Felts Next to the Bin Charlotte

Purple Window Felts In a Student's desk Declan

Purple Mrs Pickles' Felts In a Student's desk Aurora

Pink Art Felts On the Ground Theo

Pink Colouring Felts Next to the Bin Violet

Pink Window Felts At the Art Table Jasper

Pink Mrs Pickles' Felts In a Student's desk Hazel

Yellow Art Felts At the Art Table Silas

Yellow Colouring Felts Next to the Bin Luna

Yellow Window Felts On the Ground Azure

Yellow Mrs Pickles' Felts At the Art Table Zena

Blue Art Felts Next to the Bin Zach

Blue Colouring Felts On the Ground Willow

Blue Window Felts In a Student's desk Ezra

Blue Mrs Pickles' Felts In a Student's desk Aria

Gold Glitter Art Felts Next to the Bin Luca

Gold Glitter Colouring Felts At the Art Table Sage

Gold Glitter Window Felts On the Ground Felix

Gold Glitter Mrs Pickles' Felts In a Student's desk Elijah

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 Clue 1:

Match the images with the symbols below by writing the matching number in the top left corner. The fraction with
the symbol that is most common will give you the first clue! Watch out though, there are more symbols than
there are matching pictures so match carefully - there will be spares left over.

1 1
4 10

1 1
4 5

1 1
4 3

1 1 1 1
2 4 10 2

1 1 1 1
5 2 5 3

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Clue 1:

1 1 1 1 1
2 4 3 5 10

In a In a
At the Art Table On the Ground Next to the Bin
Student's Desk Student's Desk

Circle the fraction that is represented the most. The answer will tell you where the felt was found.

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 Clue 2:

One of the students has ordered some fractions from

smallest to largest. Check their answers below and give them
a tick if they got it correct or a cross if it is incorrect.
If they have more correct answers, the colour of the felt
is a primary colour. If there are more incorrect,
the felt is a secondary colour.

Order Correct Incorrect

1 3 10 2
4 , 4 , 4 , 4

1 4 6 10
2 , 2 , 2 , 2

3 4 7 9 5
5 , 5 , 5 , 5 , 5

2 4 1 5 11
10 , 10 , 10 , 10 , 10

1 2 4 6
2 , 2 , 2 , 2

2 5 7 9
4 , 4 , 4 , 4

3 1 4 2 7
8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8

3 4 6 2
6 , 6 , 6 , 6

1 5 6 9
10 , 10 , 10 , 10

Circle the correct colour.

A primary colour A secondary colour

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 Clue 3:

Solve the fractions word problems below. The answer that appears the most will tell you
what sort of felt pen was missing.

Answer

Russell was sorting out the fruit in the bowl.

1
There were 25 pieces of fruit and ⅕5 of them
were apples. How many apples were there?

Jackie runs a cattery from her home. This weekend,

1
½2 of the cats were black. If there were 24 cats,
how many black cats were there?

John picks flowers to take to his ill grandmother

from his garden. He picks 30 flowers in total
1
and ⅙6 of them are roses. How many roses
did he pick?

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Clue 3:

Answer
Maia surveys her class about their favourite ice
cream flavour. There are 30 children in the class
1
and ⅓3 say chocolate is their favourite. How many
children is that?

Matilda is sorting her toys out. She has 40

1
in total. ⅛8 of them are dolls. How many dolls
does she have?

Beau loves tomatoes. He has picked some from his

garden and is sorting them into different varieties.
1
If he has 24 tomatoes and ¼4 of them are cherry
tomatoes, how many would that be?

Circle the type of felt that is missing.

5 6 10 12

Window Felts Art Felts Mrs Pickles' Felts Colouring Felts

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 Clue 4:

Solve the fractions of a set problems below. If there are more odd number answers, it
was a male who solves the mystery. If there are more even number answers, it was a
female who solves it!

Answer

1
½
2
of 20

1
¼ of 16
4

1
⅓ of 27
3

1
⅓
10
of 70

1
⅓
3
of 39

1
⅓
3
of 33

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Clue 4:

Answer

1
¼
4
of 32

1
⅕
5
of 65

1
½
2
of 50

1
¼
4
of 24

1
½
2
of 30

1
⅕
5
of 40

Who was the mystery solver?

Male Female

The answer to the mystery is:

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