Week 413 (26th September 2025)
Amy has walked to the local green grocers to buy some fruit. She realises that the shop is only accepting cash today. Amy has £7.00 in cash to spend. The prices of some of the fruit is shown below: Pineapple (each) £1.15 Bananas (for 1 kilogram) 70p Strawberries (for a 200 g pack) £1.30 Amy […]
Week 412 (19th September 2025)
Billy’s teacher likes to set his class a challenge each lesson. Today the teacher writes down a number. They subtract 6 from the number and then divide by 8. Their answer is 81. What number did the teacher write down? Answer: To find the number they wrote down do the inverse of the two operations […]
Week 411 (12th September 2025)
Kyle runs a gardening company and sometimes needs to hire additional machinery and tools. For his latest job Kyle hired a chipper to help clear an overgrown piece of land. The cost per day was The total cost was £259.70 For how many days did Kyle hire the chipper? Answer: First minus the cost of […]
Week 410 (5th September 2025)
Laurel has been learning how to sew and her next project is to make two cushions for her bedroom. Laurel buys 2 metres of stripped fabric at £8.50 per metre. She also buys 5 metres of plain cotton fabric. The total cost is £38.00. Work out the cost of one metre of the plain cotton […]
Week 409 (29th August 2025)
As a holiday treat Alice has been enjoying pancakes and chocolate spread for her breakfast! A jar contains 300g of chocolate spread. In this spread: • 58% of the mass is pure sugar, • 1/8 of the mass is cocoa, • the mass of the milk powder is 4/5 of the mass of cocoa, • […]
Week 408 (22nd August 2025)
Molly and her partner Howard have won a sports tournament. Molly and Howard share the prize money of £2700 in the ratio 4 : 5 respectively. Molly decides to donate 24% of her share of the prize to charity. Howard decides to give the same amount of money as Molly to charity. What fraction of […]
Week 407 (15th August 2025)
Laura has been working on her fitness with a personal trainer. The trainer has set her a goal to increase the number of steps she does every day. Today, Laura did 1800 steps. The trainer has set Laura the following target for the number of steps per day: Increase by 2% every day for the […]
Week 406 (8th August 2025)
Chris is the owner of the local convenience store. Last month he sold 40 boxes of chocolates at his shop. They were sold either for £8 or in a special offer of 2 boxes of chocolates for £13. 20 boxes were sold for £8 and the remaining were sold using the special offer. Given that […]
Week 405 (1st August 2025)
Taylor buys a house with a value of £150,000. The value of Taylor’s house increases by 4% each year. Izzy buys a house with a value of £160, 000. The value of Izzy’s house increases by 1.5% each year. Work out the value of each house at the end of 2 years, whose house has […]
Week 404 (25th July 2025)
Ellen has two young children so trying to drink a warm cup of tea can prove quite a challenge! Ellen has made her first cup of tea of the day and managed to drink 5/7 of it. There is 44ml of tea left in the cup. How much tea was in the cup before Ellen […]