Week 333 (9th February 2024)
Anna is a florist and is getting ready for Valentine’s Day. She is trying to decide how many flowers to order for next week. The most popular flowers over the past few weeks have been roses, lilies, and tulips. If the sales for yesterday were represented in a pie chart, the tulip sales would take […]
Week 332 (2nd February 2024)
Sophie and Millie are taking part in a charity run. They have been training together for the past few weeks and want to cross the finish line together. The race is a total of 10 miles long. Sophie sets off at 7:30am and runs at a constant speed of 5mph. If Millie runs at a […]
Week 331 (26th January 2024)
Gavin likes to make a protein shake each morning. To prepare his protein shake, Gavin combines three containers of protein powder with a fourth container containing a mixture of: 15% chia seeds 85% protein powder All the containers have the same volume. What percentage of Gavin’s protein shake is chia seeds? Answer: ¼ of the […]
Week 330 (19th January 2024)
Harry and Emily each have some sweets in their pockets. If Harry gives Emily two sweets, she will have three times as many sweets as Harry. If, on the other hand, Emily gives two sweets to Harry, then they will each have the same number of sweets. How many sweets did they each start off […]
Week 329 (12th January 2024)
At the local secondary school there are 200 year 7 students. At the start of the school year the year 7 students chose one language from French, Spanish or German to study. Of the 200 year 7 students… 90 are boys and the rest of the students are girls. 70 of the students chose to […]
Week 328 (5th January 2024)
Katherine is back at the gym after enjoying the Christmas break. She is not the only one who has decided to hit the gym, including Katherine there are 30 women and 20 men at the gym today. The mean height of all 50 people is 167.6cm. The mean height of the 20 men is 182cm. […]
Week 327 (15th December 2023)
Santa has been busy delivering presents and has a total of 900 presents left on his sleigh. The presents are divided into three categories: Red, green, and gold. The ratio of red to green presents is 3:4. The ratio of green to gold presents is 5:2. How many presents of each colour does Santa have […]
Week 326 (8th December 2023)
Santa is helping the elves by wrapping some Christmas presents. Santa wraps 15 presents each day. Santa starts wrapping on the 1st December and wraps presents every day until Christmas Eve on the 24th December. How many presents will Santa have wrapped in total? Answer: Santa wraps 15 presents each day from 1st December […]
Week 325 (1st December 2023)
After weeks of begging from her children Emma has given in and agreed to put the Christmas decorations up at the weekend. Emma has been in the loft to sort out the decorations. One of the boxes has 15 baubles in it. 10 of the baubles are gold and 5 are red. Emma’s daughter Freya […]
Week 324 (24th November 2023)
Maria is travelling back to New York to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with her family. To entertain herself on the plane Maria has ordered a maths puzzle book. While waiting for her plane to depart Maria starts looking at some of the maths challenges. She completes a few of the questions but then gets stuck […]