Maths for the holdiays

1.  One third of a class order lunches from the canteen each day. How many students might be in the class and how many of them order lunches each day?



2.  Two fractions add together to give 1/2. What might those two fractions be?



3.  The answer is 3/7. What might the question be?



4.  How many different ways can you show 2/3?



5.  I picked up a handful of Smarties. One-third of them were red. What might a drawing of the Smarties look like?

Problems for Week 10

1.  Last night I added together two numbers, each with two digits. I got an answer of 67 but I cannot remember what the numbers were. What could be some possibilities?


2.  What might the missing numbers be? There are 6 possibilities.

         ?? ÷ ? = 3 
 
3.  How could you calculate 23 x 4 if the 4 button on your calculator is broken?   


4.  What could you add to 361 to make it divisible by 10? How many solutions can you find? Can you make a rule for this?



5.  Using only your head work out what the missing numbers might be: 2? - 3? = ?0 
   

Problems Week 9 - Measurement - Time

1.   A football match takes 2 hours and 15 minutes. What might be suitable starting and finishing times?

2.  The hour hand is on the 7. The calendar says it is Tuesday. What might be on TV?

3.  I am a month with 31 days. Which month might I be?

4.  What are some things you do each school day between 12 o'clock and 4 o'clock?

5.  Draw a clock and show on it the time you go to bed.

Problems for Week 8

1.  When the children in a class got into groups of four there was one child left over. How many children might there be in the class?
Can anyone do this by using multiplication somewhere?

2.  The answer to a division question is 5. What might the question be?

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4.  A school has 400 students.  They all come to school by bus, and each bus carries the same numbe of students. How many students might there by on each bus?

5.  How could you calculate 17 x 4 if the 4 button on the calculator was broken?

Problems for week 7

1. There are 144 marbles and I want to put them in 12 containers.

2. 66 balls need to go in 6 bags.

Friday:

7 of the birds are red, and ¾ of them are multi-coloured. How many birds in total?