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St John The Baptist Primary School, Portadown

Maths Challenges from BBC Bitesize

1st May 2020

Friday is family 👪 maths challenge day. Here are a few challenges that progressively get harder. The answers will be posted later today. 

Challenge 1

This is half of Lee's strawberries.

Four strawberries.

How many strawberries does Lee have?

This is half of Lee's shape.

A right angles triangle.

What could the whole shape look like?

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Challenge 2

Tim buys a lolly and a chew.

A lolly and a chew bar.

The lolly costs 12p more than the chew.

The total cost of the two items is 82p.

How much does the lolly cost?

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Challenge 3

Stickers come in packs of 5.

Max buys 12 packs.

Five stickers of a boy with a football.

He gives his three friends some stickers.

They each receive the same number.

He has 27 stickers left.

How many stickers did Max give each of his friends?

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Challenge 4

Here are 3 containers.

A clear jug, a bucket and a wooden barrel.
  • The jug can hold 1500 ml .
  • The bucket can hold 2 litres .
  • The barrel can hold 15 litres .

Anisa wants to fill the barrel with water.

Find 2 ways that Anisa can fill the barrel using the jug and bucket.

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Challenge 5

Three identical squares are arrange to make this pattern.

Three squares touching corners creating an equilateral triangle in the centre. One of the equilateral triangle's opposite angle is labelled x.

What is the size of the angle marked x ?

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Challenge 6

Here is a 3 x 3 grid with some shapes in.

From left to right the rows of the grid are: triangle, triangle, circle, 108; triangle, circle circle, 102; triangle, circle, pentagon, 95.

Each shape represents a number.

The sum of each row is shown at the right of the grid.

Find the value of each of the shapes.

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Challenge 7

Megan puts 4 fractions in order, starting with the smallest.

1/2, blank space/8, 7/blank space and blank space/5.

She has spilt some paint on some parts of the fractions.

What could the missing numbers be?