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1 I think of a number, halve it and add 4. The answer is 10.5.

What number did I think of?

2 There are 50 pupils in my year. 12 are boys.

Approximately what proportion is this?

1/2 1/3 1/4 1/5 1/6

3 What is the area of this shape? Give the appropriate units:

7cm

13cm

4 What is the perimeter of this rectangle?

2x + 4

4x + 3

5 7/10 of people like chocolate. Write this as a decimal:

6 On the way to school, Emma buys a carton of orange juice

for 37p and on the way home, she buys a chocolate bar for
28p. If she does this every school day, how much would she
spend in a week?

7 Circle the ratio equivalent to 36 : 216

1:8 1:4 1:6 18 : 107 9 : 52

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8 The pie chart shows how pupils travel to school. How

many come by bus if 380 pupils were questioned?

Bike
45o
Bus 90o
Walk 45o

Train 60o
Car 120o

9 A bookshelf holds 26 books and it is 338mm in length.

What is the width of each book?

10 Write 0.16 as a fraction in its simplest form:

11 What percentage of this shape is shaded?

12 A number machine multiplies by 6 and then subtracts 27.

What number comes out if 79 goes in?

13 A small chocolate bar costs 12p and a large bar costs 22p.
I buy one of the cheaper bars and 8 of the others. How
much change will I get from £10?

14 Fill in the missing number:

196 186 176

186 176
176 166 156

15 What is the range of this set of numbers?

14 12 8 17 19 3 24

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16 What is the perimeter of this shape?

4cm 6cm
3cm
2cm

17 Which number is a cube number?

6 12 27 36 49

18 Three lines are drawn on a grid and make this shape.

If these lines are reflected in the x-axis, what shape would it
make ?

19 Underline the statements which has a certain chance of

happening?

It will rain tomorrow

School will be closed tomorrow
Christmas day will be on the 26th December
1st January will be New Year’s Day
I will go shopping on Saturday

20 I get £5 pocket money every week. How much will I get in a

year?

21 There are 60 CDs in my collection. 2/10 are classical,

1/2 are jazz and the rest are pop. How many are pop?

22 Year 7 are going on a school trip. It costs £21.00 for a teacher

but for a child there is a £5 reduction. There are 50 pupils
and there must be one teacher for every 10 pupils. How
much will the school have to pay for the trip?

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23 What is the area of this compound shape? State the units:

4cm

3cm
8cm
6cm

24 This table shows the results of the school’s football team

last season. How many matches did they not lose?
Won Draw Lost
9 4 3
5 2 2
7 3 3

25 There are 32 pens in a box. If the school needs 516 pens,

how many boxes should they buy?

26 How many minutes are there in 2 ¾ hours?

27 How many days are there in one fifth of a year?

28 Find angle P (it is not drawn to scale)

80o
P

29 How many lines of symmetry does this shape have?

30 10% of this shape needs to be shaded. How many degrees is

this?

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31 If the area of the rectangle is 15 cm2, what is the area of the

triangle?

32 A map uses a scale of 2cm: 1km. A road has been drawn

5cm long on the map. What is the real length of the road?

33 Underline the shape with rotational symmetry, order 4:

34 In a survey of 48 people, 6/8 of them preferred fish and

chips for dinner. How many is this?

35 Amy has 57p. She has 6 coins, what could these coins be?

36 What is the next prime number after 19?

37 Underline the answer equal to 4 cubed:

82 34 3x3x3x3 4+4+4 4x3

38 Tom ran a race in 2 ¼ minutes. How many seconds is this?

39 Circle the number that is divisible by 3 and 6:

36 9 63 136 34

40 Give an angle size that could be classified as an obtuse

angle:

41 What does the digit 7 represent in 107 631?

7700 7000 70 7631 7

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42 A bag of 8 identical apples weighs 1kg. Three quarters of

the apples are eaten. How much does the bag weigh now?

43 What is 0.0032 x 100?

44 Circle the two numbers that have the same value:

5.16 5.60 5.160 5.06 5.7

45 Simplify this equation: 2a + 3b – 4a – 7b = 5

46 The bus leaves the shops at 09:15 but I arrived 27 minutes

late and missed the bus. What time did I arrive at the
shops?

47 I weigh 40.2kg, including my 700g coat. What is my body

weight?

48 The perimeter of a rectangle is 30cm. If the length of the

rectangle is 12cm, what is the area?

49 I stand facing north. I turn 90o clockwise, 180o anti-clockwise

then 45o clockwise. What direction am I facing?

50 If the probability of it raining is 0.45. What is the probability

of it not raining?

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1 Draw out a number machine and then do inverse (opposite)

operations:
13
? → ÷ 2 → + 4 → 10.5 inverse: 10.5 → - 4 → x 2 =

2 Do not guess multiple-choice questions, work out each answer:

1/2 of 50 = 25 too many

1/3 of 50 = approximately 16 too many
1/4 of 50 = 12.5 only 0.5 out 1/4
1/5 of 50 = 10 too small
1/6 of 50 = approximately 8 too small

3 Area of a parallelogram is the same as the area of a rectangle:

Length x Width = 13cm x 7cm = 91cm2

4 Perimeter is the total distance around the outside edge.
You need to add up all the sides:

2x + 4 + 4x + 3 + 2x + 4 + 4x + 3 12x + 14
Simplify by adding up the x’s and numbers =

5 These facts need to be remembered: 1/10 = 0.1 so

7/10 = 0.7

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6 For one day, she spends 37p + 28p = 65p.

There are 5 days in a school week (not 7) We need 65p x 5 = £3.25
7 To simplify ratios, we need to divide by a common factor.
The common factor of 36 and 216 is 36
1:6
36 ÷ 36 = 1 216 ÷ 6 = 6 so ratio is

8 You need to know that 90 degrees is ¼ of a circle (360 degrees)

We want ¼ of 380 pupils
To find a fraction of a number, we divide by the denominator
95 pupils
380 ÷ 4 =

9 We need to divide the length of the bookshelf by the number of

books: 338 ÷ 26 = 13mm

10 0.16 can be written as 16/100

This can be simplified by finding a common factor or by continual
halving: 4/25
16/100 = 8/50 = 4/25

11 There are 3 triangles shaded out of 6:

50%
3/6 = 1/2 and you need to know that 1/2 =

12 Draw out the machine, but no need for the inverse this time.
We are told what number goes in, so just work out the output:
447
79 → x 6 → - 27 →

13 One cheaper bar = 12p 8 of the others = 8 x 22p = £1.76

£8.12
Total = £1.76 + 12p = £1.88 Change: £10.00 - £1.88 =

14 Each row and column decreases by 10 so 176 - 10 =

166
15 Range: Difference between biggest and smallest: 24 - 3 =
21
16 Perimeter is the total distance around the outside edge.
Add cm units to the addition of the sides; 3cm + 6cm + 2cm etc
27cm
We need: 3 + 6 + 2 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 6 =

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17 A cube number is a number multiplied by itself and then

multiplied by itself again:
2 cubed: 2 x 2 x 2 = 8. It can be written as 23
Learn the first few: 27
1 cubed = 1 x 1 x 1 = 1 4 cubed = 4 x 4 x 4 = 64
2 cubed = 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 5 cubed = 5 x 5 x 5 = 125
3 cubed = 3 x 3 x 3 = 27

18 You need to know that the x-axis is the horizontal line - - - - - - - - -

If you put a mirror on the line, you will see a 6-sided shape Hexagon
19 Certain means 100% chance of happening.
1st January will be
The only one that is certain:
New Year’s Day
20 Need to know that there are 52 weeks in a year £5 x 52 = £260
21 Work out the fraction that is pop:
Classical = 2/10 Jazz = 1/2 = 5/10 Pop = 3/10
3/10 of 60 CDs: divide by the bottom and multiply by the top: 18 CDs
1/10 = 60 ÷10 = 6 3/10 = 6 x 3 =

22 Work out the price of a pupil: £21.00 - £5.00 = £16.00

Work out how many teachers are going: 50/10 = 5 teachers
5 teachers = 5 x £21.00 = £105.00 50 pupils = 50 x £16.00 = £800.00 £905.00
Total cost: teachers + pupils =

23 Both shapes are rectangles so use Area = Length x Width

(3cm x 6cm) + (4cm x 8cm) = 18cm2 + 32cm2 =

50 cm2

24 We are interested in how many they didn’t lose:

Add up the number of matches they won and drew:
30
9+5+7+4+2+3=

25 Straight forward: 516 ÷ 32 = 16.125

(buy 17 boxes, 16 is not have enough) 17

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26 Need to know there are 60 minutes in one hour.

2 hours = 60 x 2 = 120 minutes ¾ hour = 45 minutes 120 + 45 = 165 minutes

27 Need to know there is 365 days in a year.
To find 1/5, divide by 5: 365 ÷ 5 = 73 days
28 The triangle is an isosceles triangle: 2 sides and 2 angles are the
same. Angles in a triangle total 180 degrees:
180- 80 = 100o 100 ÷ 2 = 50o
Each missing angle in the triangle is 50o p = 130o
Angles on a line also total 180o so 180 - 50 = 130o

29 Remember a line of symmetry is a line that cuts the shape into 2

pieces that are a mirror image of each other:
5 lines of
symmetry

30 Need to remember that there are 360o in a circle:

To find 10%, we need to ÷ by 10 360 ÷ 10 =

36o

31 The area of a triangle is always half that of a rectangle

The formula for a triangle is (base x height) ÷ 2 15cm2 ÷ 2 = 7.5cm2

32 First find what 1cm is equal to:
2cm = 1km
1cm = 0.5 km or 500m 2.5km or 2500m
5cm is 5 x 0.5km =

33 Rotational symmetry means that as a shape is rotated through 360o

it will look exactly the same as before it was rotated. For order 4, it
must look exactly the same for every 90° rotation. The only shape
that fits this criterion is:

34 6/8 = 3/4 which is easier to work out:

3/4 of 48 is: 48 ÷ 4 = 12 12 x 3 = 36
35 Possibilities are: 20p, 10p, 10p 10p, 5p, 2p
20p, 20p, 5p, 5p, 5p, 2p
50p, 2p, 2p, 1p, 1p, 1p etc

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36 Remember that a prime number is a number that can only be

divided by 1 and itself, with no remainder. 23
After 19 comes 23 as 23 only has factors of 1 and itself (1 x 23 =23)

37 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 which is the same as 8 x 8 82

38 There are 60 seconds in one minute so 2 minutes = 120 seconds 135 seconds
¼ minute = 60 ÷ 4 = 15 sec 120 + 15 =

39 The only number that can be divided by 3 and by 6 with no 36

remainder is
Any angle between 91o and
40 An obtuse angle is bigger than 90 and less that 180 so o o 179o would be acceptable

41 The 7 is in the thousands column so it represents

7000
42 One apple weighs 1000g ÷ 8 = 125g.
¾ have been eaten = 6/8 which is 6 out of 8 apples
250g
43 When we multiply a decimal by 100, move the decimal point 2
places to the left: 0.32
44 Imagine these numbers represent money and remember that any
zeros on the end (right hand side) can be removed:
5.160 and 5.16
5.160 is the same as 5.16 (£5.16)

45 Collect the ‘like’ terms: Imagine a represents apples and b for

bananas:
-2a -4b = 5
We have 2a - 4a = -2a and 3b - 7b = -4b

46 09:15 + 27 minutes =
09:42
47 Remember there are 1000g in a kg
40.2kg = 40200g
39500g or 39.5kg
Subtract the weight of the coat: 40200g - 700g =

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48 If one length is 12cm, both lengths total 24cm

Both widths need to total 6cm to have a perimeter of 30cm
6cm ÷ 2 = 3cm (to check: 12 + 12 + 3 + 3 = 30 cm) 36 cm2
Area of a rectangle = Length x Width = 12cm x 3cm =

49 Remember the compass direction rhyme:

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

From North, 90o clockwise turn = East

North-West
From East, 180o anti-clockwise = West or NW
From West, 45o clockwise (½ a right angle) =

50 Probabilities always add to 1:

0.55
0.45 + 0.55 = 1

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