Friday, July 8, 2011

Numbers to 20

(A) Which number between 1 and 10 is written in English using the same number of letters as the number itself? __________

(B) What number between 1 and 10 rhymes with a number between 11 and 20? __________

(C) How many times do you use the numeral “1” when you write all the whole numbers from 10 to 20? __________

(D) Which number between 1 and 10 has the most occurrences of the letter “e” and has not yet been used in this list?

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Workshop 1

I have one dollar - $1.00

If I buy one iceblock for 40c have much change do I get?

If I buy one pencil for 35c how much change do I get?

I need two pencils. What will that cost me? How much change will I get from $1?

Mary and Dickon bought an iceblock for 25c each. How much did they spend altogether? If they paid with a one dollar coin, how much change did they get?

The teacher makes fudge and brings it to school. There are 27 pieces, but only 19 children. How many pieces are left over?

Can you write that as a number sentence in two ways. First as a horizontal sum, then as a vertical one.

Two children in the class have a box of cupcakes that they share. There are 24 of them – how many do they each get?

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Rounding off

1a. Round 323 to the nearest ten.

1b. Round 331 to the nearest hundred.


2a. Round 670 to the nearest ten.

2b. Round 175 to the nearest ten.


3a. Round 787 to the nearest ten.

3b. Round 196 to the nearest hundred.


4a. Round 90 to the nearest ten.

4b. Round 252 to the nearest ten.


5a. Round 267 to the nearest hundred.

5b. Round 56 to the nearest ten.


6a. Round 79 to the nearest ten.

6b. Round 404 to the nearest hundred.


7a. Round 314 to the nearest hundred.

7b. Round 224 to the nearest hundred.

Extra Maths

1 a. _____ + 80 + 900 = 982

1 b. _____ + 80 + 9 = 789


2 a. 6 + 20 + _____ = 126

2 b. 1 + 10 + _____ = 711


3 a. 7 + 50 + _____ = 457

3 b. 1 + _____ + 60 = 561


4 a. 4 + 50 + _____ = 154

4 b. 90 + 9 + _____ = 199


5 a. 5 + _____ + 900 = 925

5 b. _____ + 20 + 200 = 221


6 a. _____ + 100 + 80 = 185

6 b. 6 + 100 + _____ = 186


7 a. 60 + 7 + _____ = 867

7 b. 9 + _____ + 600 = 699


8 a. 20 + _____ + 600 = 626

8 b. 6 + 20 + _____ = 726


9 a. 6 + 0 + _____ = 506

9 b. 700 + _____ + 3 = 763


10 a. 7 + _____ + 800 = 857

10 b. _____ + 70 + 200 = 274

More Maths

1 a. 5 + 30 + 200 = ____

1 b. 50 + 7 + 100 = ____


2 a. 7 + 600 + 70 = ____

2 b. 500 + 20 + 1 = ____


3 a. 7 + 50 + 700 = ____

3 b. 5 + 60 + 200 = ____


4 a. 0 + 40 + 400 = ____

4 b. 1 + 500 + 80 = ____


5 a. 600 + 40 + 9 = ____

5 b. 0 + 10 + 100 = ____


6 a. 0 + 0 + 100 = ____

6 b. 8 + 50 + 800 = ____


7 a. 3 + 100 + 50 = ____

7 b. 8 + 30 + 900 = ____


8 a. 2 + 400 + 40 = ____

8 b. 7 + 40 + 200 = ____


9 a. 5 + 200 + 0 = ____

9 b. 20 + 0 + 200 = ____


10 a. 20 + 7 + 100 = ____

10 b. 4 + 90 + 900 = ____

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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?

Monday, March 29, 2010

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