Week 433 (27th February 2026)
Sally is trying to be more health conscious. She has read about the benefits of juicing and has bought herself an electric juicer to get some more vitamins into her body. She has budgeted £10 to spent on fruit this week. At the supermarket large oranges cost 60p each and apples cost 25p each. Sally buys 9 […]
Week 432 (20th February 2026)
Jude is going away for a few days over half term with his family. Jude and his family make a journey of 200 miles from their home to the coast. 1/10 of the journey is on roads with a speed limit of 40 miles per hour. 40% of the journey is on roads with a […]
Week 431 (13th February 2026)
Holly is celebrating Valentine’s Day with her friends and hey have arranged a Galentine’s get-together. Holly is going to make some biscuits for the occasion. The ingredients needed to make 20 biscuits are as follows: 120g of butter 200g of flour 50g of sugar Holly wants to make 30 biscuits. How much of each ingredient will Holly need? Answer: To make 30 […]
Week 430 (6th February 2026)
Greg has taken his children to soft play for the morning to burn off some energy! The soft play has a ball pit which his children love to play in. The ball pit contains many coloured balls. Some are yellow, some are red, some are blue, and the others are pink. The probability of choosing a pink/yellow/red or blue ball is shown […]
Week 429 (30th January 2026)
Louise works as a Fractional Finance Director and one of her clients is a manufacturing SME. The company makes storage boxes. A machine in their factory makes 15 boxes in 12 minutes. The machine works continuously. Work out how many boxes are made by this machine in 7 hours. Answer: First change 7 hours […]
Week 428 (23rd January 2026)
Mrs Green is a school teacher. She has organised a school trip for 66 children. The total cost of the trip was £1800. The school paid 56% of the total cost. The rest of the total cost was divided equally between the 66 children. Work out how much money each child paid. Answer: First find 56% […]
Week 427 (16th January 2026)
Amy and her friend Theo have stopped at the newsagent on their way home from college to buy some snacks. 4 chocolate bars and 3 packets of mints cost £4.70 5 chocolate bars and 1 packet of mints cost £4.50 Work out the cost of a chocolate bar and the cost of a packet of mints. Answer: Since 5 […]
Week 426 (9th January 2026)
Hayley was gifted a new mobile phone for Christmas and has been busy setting it up. Hayley is choosing a 4-digit security code. Each digit is a whole number from 0 to 9 She decides all her digits will be odd numbers and no digits will be repeated. How many different codes can she make? […]
Week 425 (19th December 2025)
Andy and his family are having an early Christmas get together and he is cooking a Christmas lunch for his family. Andy is going to cook a turkey. The instructions for the total time for cooking a turkey are: Total time = (30 minutes at 220°C) + (50 minutes per kilogram at 170°C) + (Leave for […]
Week 424 (12th December 2025)
A theatre group has been working hard preparing for their Christmas show and drumming up ticket sales! The group have sold 4830 tickets. This is 15% more than they sold for their Christmas show last year. How many tickets did they sell last year? Answer: Since 4830 is 115% of the number of tickets sold […]