4 x 5 = 20 23,578

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 Ordering numbers to 10 million:
speed challenge
Can you read these numbers out loud to an adult? If not, get
them to help you and make sure you practise saying plenty
more out loud until you get the hang of it.

Once you have done this, cut all the numbers out and then
put them in order, from smallest to largest, as quickly as you
can. Keep trying to beat your previous record!

47,827 48,772
4,874,522 5,872,425
52,728 847,242
478,422 5,782,524
748,422 5,782,245
8,472,842 487,244
87,472 8,728,254
48,274 48,747
4,827,244 47,827
SCORECARD

Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3

Attempt 4 Attempt 5 Attempt 6

 Adding decimals
HELPFUL tip!
It helps if you think of pounds and pence when
doing this, so 4.5 + 6.7 is: £4.50 + £6.70.

1. 0.2 + 5.3 =

2. 4.5 + 6.7 =

3. 0.4 + 3.5 =

4. 1.9 + 6.7 =

5. 2.3 + 9.3 =

6. 1.8 + 4.3 =

7. 4.32 + 7.1 =

8. 5.29 + 2.9 =

9. 3.72 + 2.38 =

10. 5.78 + 3.24 =

Answers: 1. 5.5, 2. 11.2, 3. 3.9, 4. 8.6, 5. 11.6, 6. 6.1, 7. 11.42, 8. 8.19, 9. 6.1, 10. 9.02
 Marbles for sale
You can use a calculator to work out this problem!

3p 3p

Karen has 174 marbles. Mark has 362

She sells two thirds of marbles. He sells
them at the school fair. 50% of them.

They both price their marbles at 3p each.

How much money does Karen make?

How much money does Mark make?

Parent tip!
Remind your child to jot things down as they go along. It is easy to think
the calculator will do all the work, but they will need a record of their
working to help them find the final answers.

Answer: Karen makes £3.48 and Mark makes £5.43

 Factors, multiples and prime
numbers puzzles
4 and 5 Look at this number sentence: 20 is a
are both multiple
4 x 5 = 20
factors of 4 and
of 20 of 5

A prime number is a number that has only itself and one as factors.
Examples of prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 and so on.
Use this information to work out the following puzzles:

1. Two factors of 90 are added

? ?
together to make another
factor of 90.

What are the two factors?

2. Three prime

? ? ?
numbers under
10 are added to
make a number
that’s a multiple
of 4. What are the
three numbers?
3. Two multiples

? ? ?
of 5 are added to
make a number
larger than 100,
smaller than 150.
What could the
two multiples be?
4. What am I? 5. Two prime

? ?
I am a multiple of numbers under
8. I am less than 20 are added to
100. My digits make a number
add up to 10. with the factors 2,
3, 5, 6, 10 and 15.
What are they?
are many answers to this: 50 + 55, 60 + 50, 100 + 45 etc., 4) 64, 5) 30 has those factors, so 11 + 19 or 13 + 17.
Answers: 1) 30 and 15 are both factors of 90 - add them to make 45, also a factor of 90, 2) 2 + 3 + 7 = 12 3) There
 Spot the wrong answer

✗
Sometimes you know an answer is wrong without having to
work it out exactly.

Without using a calculator, say why you think this answer

could not be right:

3.92 x 4.18 = 25.318

If you round the first two numbers to the nearest whole number, you get
4 x 4 which equals 16. Therefore, a number as high as 25.318 could not
possibly be right.

Use your knowledge of rounding to work out if the following number

sentences are definitely not correct or are possibly correct.

The first two have been done for you.

Work out a Was the

rough answer original sum
by rounding correct?
4.78 x 9.1 = 103.78 5 x 9 = 45 Definitely not
3.18 x 7.2 = 22.896 3 x 7 = 21 Possibly
3.87 x 4.2 = 58.24
8.23 x 6.5 = 14.7
3.9 x 2.92 = 11.388
2.438 x 5.13 = 3.1
12.889 x 3.4 = 11.4
15.6 x 20.2 = 315.12

Answers:
Possibly 16 x 20 = 320 15.6 x 20.2 = 315.12
Definitely not 13 x 3 =39 12.889 x 3.4 = 11.4
Definitely not 2 x 5 = 10 2.438 x 5.13 = 3.1
Possibly 4 x 3 = 12 3.9 x 2.92 = 11.388
Definitely not 8 x7 = 56 8.23 x 6.5 = 14.7
Definitely not 4 x 4 = 16 3.87 x 4.2 = 58.24
Possibly 3 x7 =21 3.18 x 7.2 = 22.896
Definitely not 5 x9 =45 4.78 x 9.1 = 103.78
correct? by rounding
original sum rough answer Sum
Was the Work out a
 Simplifying fractions revision

Simplifying fractions
=
changing the numerator and denominator
to the smallest numbers possible

12 3
16 4

12 3
÷4
16 4
To simplify 12 down to 3 we simply divide each number by 4.
16 4

Can you simplify these fractions by dividing the numerator

and denominator by the same number?

1.
30
2.
16 3.
18 Answers: 1. 1/2, 2. 2/5, 3. 6/11, 4. 2/3, 5. 1/4, 6. 1/2, 7. 1/2, 8. 2/3, 9. 4/7

60 40 33
4.
14 5.
21 6.
24
21 84 48
7.
90 8.
18 9.
32
180 27 56
 Compare and order fractions
To order a set of fractions, you need to make sure that all
the denominators are the same.
First, find the biggest denominator, then multiply all the
other fractions so that they all have that denominator.

1 4 10 5 7
3 6 18 6 9

1x6= 6 18 is the largest 7 x 2 = 14

3 x 6 18 denominator 9 x 2 18
4 x 3 = 12 5 x 3 = 15
6 x 3 18 6 x 3 18

Now you can compare the fractions. In coloured pen, write 1st,
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th next to each fraction to show how you
would order them from smallest to largest.

1 10 4 7 5
3 18 6 9 6

Using this method, can you order these fractions from

smallest to largest?
1. 2.
1 8 15 3 2 3 4 9 3 30
5 10 20 10 5 80 8 10 5 40

3. 4.
11 50 15 3 2 3 2 1 10 4
20 100 25 10 5 24 8 2 12 6

11/20, 15/25; 4. 3/24, 2/8, 1/2, 4/6, 10/12

Answers: 1. 1/5, 3/10, 2/5, 15/20, 8/10; 2. 3/80, 4/8, 3/5, 30/40, 9/10; 3. 3/10, 2/5, 50/100,
 Adding and subtracting fractions
When you add or subtract two fractions with the same
denominator (bottom number),
you simply add the two
numerators (top numbers)
and keep the denominator the same, for example:

+
2 3 5
= + =
6 6 6
4 1 3
8
- 8
=
8
- =

If the denominators are different, you need to alter the fractions

so that both denominators are the same, for example:

+
1 3
= +
3 6
We can multiply the 1 and 3 of 1/3 by 2, so that the fraction
becomes 2/6. Then the addition is easier to work out:

1x2= 2 2 3 5
+ =
3x2 6 6 6 6
Can you solve these additions and subtractions?
1. 1 - 1 2. 5 + 3 3. 4 + 3
= = =
3 6 16 8 10 5
4. 9 - 1 5. 3 - 4 6. 3 + 5
= = =
21 3 9 18 8 16
7. 5 - 1 8. 9 + 3 9. 2 + 1
=
7 14 20 40 = 9 3
=

Answers: 1. 3/6; 2. 11/16; 3. 10/10; 4. 16/21; 5. 10/18; 6. 11/16; 7. 11/14; 8. 21/40; 9. 5/9
 Box it up: long multiplication
A quick way to multiply a three-digit or four-digit number by a
two-digit number is by using the long multiplication method.

3 9 1 First we multiply each

of the digits 391 by 9.
x 3 9 9x1=9
9 x 9 = 81
(put the 1 down; carry
3 5 1 9 the 8)
9 x 3 = 27
8 27 + (carried) 8 = 35

1 1 7 3 0
2
Now we multiply each
of the digits 391 by 3.
Because it is actually 30,
1 5 2 4 9 not 3, we put a zero
down first.
3x1=3
3 x 9 = 27 (put the 7 down
Last of all, we add
and carry the 2)
the results of our
calculations to get the 3 x 3 = 9 (plus the 2
answer. which makes 11)

3519 + 11730 = 15249

Use this method to complete these multiplications. Use the boxes as

we have done above to help you set out your numbers correctly!

1. 3918 x 48 = 2. 7261 x 34 =

3. 7182 x 54 = 4. 3869 x 65 =

5. 2816 x 35 = 6. 8517 x 39 =
Answers: 1. 188,064, 2. 246,874, 3. 387,828, 4. 251,485, 5. 98,560, 6. 332,163
 Choose the bus shelter method
When dividing a four-digit number
by a two-digit number, we can use
the ‘bus shelter’ method:

2 1 3 r17
40 8 5 3 7
5 13

40 goes into 85 twice with a remainder of 5.

We put 2 over the top of the 5.

The remainder, 5, is then put next to the 3, to make 53.

40 goes into 53 once with a remainder of 13.

We put 1 over the top of the 3.

The remainder, 13, is put next to the 7 to make 137.

40 goes into 137 three times with a remainder of 17.

We put 3 over the top of the 7.

So the answer is 213 remainder 17.

Use this method to work out these questions:

1. 2816 ÷ 12 = 2. 5173 ÷ 23 =

3. 5599 ÷ 18 = 4. 4918 ÷ 22 =

5. 9927 ÷ 45 = 6. 7364 ÷ 34 =
Answers: 1. 234 R 8, 2. 224 R 21, 3. 311 R 1, 4. 223 R 12, 5. 220 R 27, 6. 216 R 20
 Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000

Ali the alien has been given some

division homework – and she’s just
thrilled at the prospect.

Can you help her solve the

calculations below so she can get
back to some stargazing?

0.7
0.37 ÷ 10
9.681

1.8
0.481 ÷ 100
0.3

4
1.8 ÷ 1000

0.3
Answers: Box 1: 0.07, 0.037, 0.9681 Box 2: 0.018, 0.003, 0.01827 Box 3: 0.004, 0.0018, 0.0003
 Diabolical decimals
Multiplying decimals is not always as hard as you’d think.

For example: 0.3 x 4

You know that 3 x 4 = 12, so 0.3 x 4 = 1.2

Use your knowledge of times tables to work out the following:

3 x 0.7 =

4 x 0.6 =

0.2 x 4 =

1.2 x 3 =

5 x 0.6 =

4 x 0.4 =

1.1 x 7 =

10 x 0.9 =
1.1 x 7 = 7.7, 10 x 0.9 = 9
Answers: 3 x 0.7 = 2.1, 4 x 0.6 = 2.4, 0.2 x 4 = 0.8, 1.2 x 3 = 3.6, 5 x 0.6 = 3, 4 x 0.4 = 1.6,
 Ordering fractions, decimals
and percentages
Look at these sets of numbers. Can you put them in order
in the boxes below, from smallest to largest?

It might help to convert all the fractions and decimals to

percentages so that you can compare the numbers more easily.

1.
1 3
67% 0.3 20 0.19 5

2.
3 3
0.9 6 81% 12 0.24

3.
6 1
59% 8 78% 10 0.3

Answers: 1. 1/20, 0.19, 0.3, 3/5, 67%. 2. 0.24, 3/12, 3/6, 81%, 0.9. 3. 1/10, 0.3, 59%, 6/8, 78%.
 Ratio problem-solving

1. Graham goes to an Easter Egg hunt and collects a

bumper crop of 64 mini-eggs. For every one spotty
egg he has seven striped eggs. How many spotty
eggs does he have? How many striped eggs does
he have?

2. In a nursery, there is one adult to every three babies.

If there are 15 adults in the nursery, how many babies
are there?

3. Tracey is making a large cake for her friend’s wedding.

For every one egg, she needs to use 200g of flour. The
cake requires 15 eggs. How many kilograms of flour
will she need?

4. There are 100 guests at the wedding. The ratio of

guests is 4 children to every 6 adults. How many
children are at the wedding altogether?

5. Chris is making up some jugs of diluted lime cordial.

For every 20ml of lime cordial, he needs to add 80ml
of water. He has 500ml of lime cordial. How much
diluted lime cordial drink can he make in total?

Answers: 1. 8 spotty eggs and 56 striped eggs, 2. 45 babies, 3. 3 kilograms, 4. 40 children, 5. 2000ml
 Alien line-up and other
proportion problems

1. A teacher is buying chocolate bars for her class. She knows

that one in every 5 children in her class don’t like caramel.
There are 30 children in her class. How many children in her
class don’t like caramel?

2. A group of 96 aliens are waiting to board a spaceship. Two

in every 12 aliens are green. How many aliens are NOT
green?

3. Sue has six buckets. She has collected 14 worms in each

bucket. Three in every 14 worms has managed to escape!
How many worms have escaped altogether?

4. Karen collects 125 insects from the garden. Two in every

five insects is a ladybird. How many insects are NOT
ladybirds?

5. A PE teacher has a sack full of footballs.

One in every four footballs is red.
There are 6 red footballs. How many
footballs are NOT red? How
many footballs are there altogether?

there are 24 balls altogether.

Answers: 1. 6 children, 2. 80 aliens, 3. 18 worms, 4. 75 insects, 5. 18 are not red,
Mystery number sentences

1. Look at these two number sentences.

What do you think A and B are?

2 x A + B = 10
B=3xA

2. Look at these two number sentences.

What do you think C and D are?

3 x C + D = 17
D=C+1

Answers: 1. A = 2 and B = 6, 2. C = 4 and D = 5, 3. E = 2 and F = 2, 4. A + 5, B = 1, C = 3 and D = 8

3. Look at these two number sentences.
What do you think E and F are?

4 x E + F = 10
4xE–F=6

4. Look at these five number sentences.

A, B, C and D are all single-digit numbers
different to each other. Can you work out
what each one is?
A + D = 13 B+C=4
A+B=6 C + D = 11
 A fizzy problem
Mr Smith has bought a pack of 15 lemonade cans. Each can contains
300ml of lemonade.
lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade
300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml
lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade

lemonade
300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml 300ml

He has to pour out these cans into empty jugs.

Each jug can hold a litre of liquid.

How many jugs will he need to pour out the 15 cans?

Show your working out!

1 litre

Parent tip!
Encourage your child to separate the 15 into 10 and 5 when multiplying.
It may also help them to draw pictures as they go along.

Answer: Mr Smith has 4½ litres of lemonade, so he would need 5 jugs.

 Shape shifting
These dots are 1cm apart. See if you can draw the following on the grid:

1. A shape which
has two right
angles and six
sides.

2. A shape which
has five sides, two of
which measure 4cm.

3. A quadrilateral
with only one pair
of parallel sides.

drawing the shapes!

they use a ruler when
the criteria. Make sure
have correctly followed
to check that children
shapes. Parents need
possibilities for these
are many different
Answers: There
 Area and perimeter
problems

2
1. A garden has an area of 56m and a perimeter of 36m.
How long are each of its sides?

2. A rectangle has a perimeter of 52cm

and an area of 69cm2. How long are
each of its sides?

3 Katy has tiles which measure 2 m by 1m. She wants to tile

a floor that measures 8m by 6m.

8m 2m
1m
6m

How many tiles

will she need?

Answers: 1. 14m by 4m, 2. 23cm by 3cm, 3. 24 tiles

 Finding the area of a
right-angled triangle
How would you find the area of this triangle? (Each square
on the grid represents 1cm by 1cm but is not drawn to scale.)

Imagine that you make this triangle into a rectangle.

Find the area of the rectangle by multiplying the width by

the height. You can then halve this to find the area of the
right-angled triangle: 2
The area of the rectangle is 24cm .
2.
So the area of the triangle is 12cm

What are the areas of these right-angled triangles?

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

Answers: 1. 7.5cm2, 2. 16cm2 3. 18cm2, 4. 32cm2, 5. 24cm2, 6. 13.5cm2

 Tricky triangles
If you add up the three inside angles of a triangle
the answer will always be 180 o.

Can you work out the missing angle in these triangles?

They are not drawn to scale, so do not measure the angles!

110 o

35o

75o

right angle

42o

69o

Answers: First triangle: 35o, Second triangle: 15o, Third triangle: 69o.
 Angles adding up to 180˚

The angles of a straight The inside angles of a

line add up to 180˚ triangle also add up to
180˚

50˚

60˚
40˚ 80˚ 90˚ 40˚

40˚ + 80˚ + 60˚ = 180˚ 50˚ + 90˚ + 40˚ = 180˚

See if you can work out the missing angles in these diagrams
(none of them are drawn as actual size):

1. 2.

28˚

55˚ ?
70˚ ? 34˚

3. 4.
?

79˚ 48˚ 48˚

Answers: 1. 55˚, 2. 28˚, 3. 53˚, 4. 42˚

 Translating and
reflecting shapes
on a grid

mirror line
10
Draw a triangle with these
co-ordinates: 9

(1,1) (4,1) (3,3) 8

Translate this triangle 7

right 1 and up 5. 6
Now reflect it in the 5
mirror line.
4
What are the co-ordinates
3
of your new triangle?
2

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

10

9 Draw a shape with these

co-ordinates:
8
(7,1) (9,1) (7,3) (9,4)
7
Translate this shape
6
up 5 and right 1. Now
mirror line
5 reflect it in the mirror line.
4
What are the co-ordinates
3 of your new shape?
2

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Answers: 1. (5,6) (6,8) (8,6) 2. (0,6) (2,6) (0,9) (2,8)

 What’s your favourite Olympic sport?

20%
gymnastics
50%
10%
This pie chart shows the favourite athletics
sports of children in Class 5E. judo
There are 30 children in Class 5E.
20%
The teacher wants the class to diving
draw up the information on a
bar chart. One child has already
started their bar chart.

16

14

12

10
Number of children

gymnastics athletics judo diving

Favourite Olympic sport

Draw the other three bars on the bar chart, using the information from
the pie chart, to show how many children like the different sports.
Can you organise a survey of your family and friends and find out what
their favourite Olympic sport is? Show your results on a chart.

Answer: Bars to show 15 children like athletics, 3 children like judo, 6 children like diving.
 Mode, range, median and mean

The mode is the number that appears the most often in a set of numbers.

The range is the difference between the smallest number and the
largest number.

To find the median, put the numbers in order first. The median is the
middle number.

To find the mean (sometimes called the average), you add up all the
numbers and then divide this total by the number of numbers in a set.

Diamond Class is made up of three groups, each with seven children in

them. These are the spelling scores out of twenty for the seven children
in each group.

Group 1 16 14 11 20 18 12 9

Group 2 10 13 9 10 14 16 10
Group 3 8 18 12 12 9 10 8

1. What is the median score for Group 1? thei

r t
her
who e
’s
2. What is the mode score for Group 2? who
witc se
h
whi
3. What is the mean score for Group 3? ch
you
r y
ou’r
4. Which group had the biggest range of scores? e
its
it’s
5. One group has no mode score. Which one is it?

Answers: 1. 14, 2. 10, 3. 11, 4. Group 1 (range is 11), 5. Group 1