Yr 6 Maths problems

1. Uncle Bill was driving to Sydney when he spotted a big orange bunyip on the side of the road. He screeched to a stop, jumped out of his car. He saw the outline of a number on the bunyip. He couldn't quite see the number, but he knew it was a 4 digit number. And:
1) He remembered seeing a number 1.
2) In the hundred's place he remembers the number is 3 times the number in the thousand's place.

3) He said the number in the one's place is 4 times the number in the ten's place.

4) Finally he said the number 2 is sitting in the thousand's place.

What is the number?


2. Bugs Bunny decided to grow a garden so he could make salad. He wants to make it 10.1 m long and 4.2 m wide. However, in order to avoid peter Rabbit from entering his garden he must make a fence surrounding the garden. He decides to make the fence 11.2 m long and 5.0 m wide. What is the area between the fence and the garden?


3. Julie bought 7 shirts, one for each of her seven sisters, for $9.95 each. The cashier charged her an additional $13.07 in sales tax. She left the store with a measly $7.28. How much money did Julie start with?

4. Dan gave Charlie half of his cupcakes. Charlie gave Jane half of the cupcakes she received from Dan. Jane kept 8 of those cupcakes and gave the remaining 10 to David. How many cupcakes did Dan give Charlie?

Look here

1. Write 11.15pm in 24 hour time.
2. Find the sum of 403.3 and 6.08.
3. Which is greater, 1,009,708 or 10,000,090?
4. How many faces on a cube.
5. Write in figures, the number twenty-two thousand and four greater than nine hundred and eighteen thousand and sixty-seven.
6. What are the Roman numerals for 67, 451 and 1230?
7. What is one quarter of 4,517?
8. What is 42 times 68?
9. Multipy the sum of 48 divided by 12 by 6.
10. 3.04 + 366.9 + 3.67.


1. Write 5:21pm in 24 hour time.
2. Find the sum of 45.787 and 909.24.
3. Which is greater, 64,498,269 or 92,638,312?
4. How many edges in a triangular prism?
5. Write in figures, the number two hundred and seventy thousand and eighty-seven greater than twenty thousand and thirty-nine?
6. What are the Roman numerals for 423, and 18 and 3334?
7. What is one third of 246?
8. What is 3 times 546?
9. Multiply the sum of 90 divided by 30 by 9.
10. 45.23 + 92.34 + .81


1. Write 9:51pm in 24 hour time.
2. Find the sum of 27.8 and 47.01.
3. Which is greater, 400,020,590 or 412,000,633?
4. How many edges on a square pyramid?
5. Write in figures, the number nine hundred and ninety-four greater than forty-five.
6. What are the Roman numerals for 222, and 34 and 101?
7. What is one twelth of 1320?
8. What is 9 times 4000?
9. Multipy the sum of 81 divided by 9 by 36 divided by 4 .
10. 98.3+ 160.3 + .002.


1. Write 8:43pm in 24 hour time.
2. Find the sum of 839.6 and 86.05.
3. Which is greater, 212,058,392 or 212,085,668?
4. How many sides in a hexagonal prism?
5. Write in figures, the number sixteen million, eighty thousand and ninety-two.
6. What are the Roman numerals for 47, and 19 and 459?
7. What is one third of 666.66?
8. What is 3 times 465?
9. What is the sum of 80 divided by 4.
10. 307.4 + 82.06 + 877.3

Quick sums

1. What are the Roman numerals for 7, and 100 and 94?
2. What is one third of 66?
3. What is 3 times 15?
4. Multipy the sum of 36 divided by 12 by 8.
5. 5.1 + 6.2 + 5.1.

Problem Solving

1. If I leave Canberra on the bus at 9.15 am, and get into Sydney three hours and fifteen minutes later, what time will it be?

2. If I have to be at a meeting at 11.30am, and it takes 37 minutes to get there, what time will I have to leave home?

3. If it takes 25 minutes to read a chapter in my book, and I want to read 3 chapters, how long will it take me?

4. If I am going to bake cookies, and each tray takes twelve minutes to bake, how long will it take, in hours and minutes, to bake six trays?

5. If I leave Sydney at 3.30pm, and drive for two hours, then have a fifteen minute break in Berrima, then drive for another hour and a half, how long will it take to get to Canberra.

6. If it takes forty-five minutes to make fudge, how long does it take to make two batches?

More Maths

- Days in a week
- Days in the month of June
- Days in the month of July
- Weeks in a year
- Months in a year
- Years in a decade
- Years in a century
- Years in a millenium
- Seconds in a minute
- Minutes in an hour
- Hours in a day
- Days in a fortnight
- Days in a year
- Days in a leap year

More Maths

1. What are the Roman numerals for 25 and 41 and 30?
2. What is one fifth of 20?
3. What is 50 times 3?
4. Multiply the sum of 44 divided by 11 by 6.
5. 5.5 + 3.3.

Extra Maths

1. What are the Roman numerals for 17, and 49 and 152?
2. What is one fifth of 95?
3. What is 52 times 3?
4. Multipy the sum of 8 divided by 2 by 7.
5. 3.1 + 7.5 + 7.2.

More Maths

1. Write 12 (noon) in 24 hour time.
2. Find the sum of 30.2 and 9.4.
3. Which is greater: 59,069 or 95,090?
4. How many faces on a rectangular prism.
5. Write in figures, the numbers seventy-nine and sixty-four.