Monday 30th March's question of the week was a little taster from our brand new maths pack: Progress And Advance In Maths
Topic: Find one number as a percentage of another
Answer:
60 - 18 = 42 arrows used
42 x 100 = 4200 = 70 = 70%
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Monday 23rd March's question was taken from the 2011 Key Stage 2 SATs Paper A:
Money problems are very common in the KS2 SATs exams: try our KS2 SATs Money Problems Pack for more practice.
Topic: Money Problems
Answer:
Option 1: £1, 20p, 20p, 10p, 10p
Option 2: 50p, 50p, 20p, 20p, 20p
Monday 16th March's question was a place value question that always catches people out!
If 42 x 5 = 210
What is the answer to: 420 x 50?
Topic: Using Place Value
Answer: 420 is 10 times 42 and 50 is 10 times 5.
So, both numbers in the sum have been multiplied by 10.
So, we need to multiply 210 by 10, then by 10 again: 210 x 10 x 10 = 21000
Monday 9th March's question involved long division:
Bernard has 498 boxes of chocolates, which he packs into crates.
Each crate can hold 15 boxes of chocolates.
How many crates can Bernard fill?
And how many boxes of chocolates will be left over?
Topic: Long Division (HTU divided by TU with remainders)
Answer: Bernard can fill 33 crates and there will be 3 boxes of chocolates left over.
Visit our
division video page for a full video explanation showing how to do this question.
Monday 2nd March's question was taken from our
11 Plus Online Tests. Did you know non-verbal reasoning is closely linked to maths? Someone who is good at non-verbal reasoning will often do well in maths!
Topic: Non Verbal Reasoning - Reflection
Answer: B