6T Maths Homework 9/10/15
Mental Objective - 'Use the correct order of operations' (BODMAS)
What does the acronym 'BODMAS' stand for?
Answer the following:a) 2 + 3 x 4
b) 3 - 6 ÷ 2
c) 4 + 52 - 3
d) 4 + 3 - 42 -1
e) (5 - 23)2
f) 32 + (10 - 22)
g) -2 + 10 ÷ 2
h) (3 - 42) x (-1)2
Main Objective - 'Calculate using written methods'
For all of the following questions show full working in your homework book.
Some of these may seem very easy, but they are similar to those you will get in SATS and get
harder.
1) 43 x 2
2) 5213 - 1000
3) 8.6 + 0.2
4) 24 ÷ 8
5) 3824 + 585
6) 104 - 8
7) 5 x 8 x 3
8) 2/7 + 4/7
9) 4 - 16
10) 82.5 x 10
11) 1.78 - 0.6
12) 30 x 60
13) 8/15 - 7/15
14) 7.64 ÷ 100 15) 784 x 6
16)135,000 - 2543
17) 9600 ÷ 12
18) 2/3 x 18
19) 20% of 2100
20) 33 - 42
21) 15.62 + 6.8
22) 7461 ÷ 9
23) 0.9 x 528
24) 22.4 - 7.62
25) 37 x 29
26) 58.45 ÷ 7
27) 347,695 - 39,766
28) 4680 ÷ 15
29) 2/3 x 7/9
30) 31% of 320
31) 5/6 - ¾
32) (12 ÷ 4) + 7 x 5
33) 3235 x 24
34) 2 2/3 - 1 ¼
35) 7/8 ÷ 5
36) 2784 ÷ 29
Challenge - Solve the following Mixed Word and reasoning Problems
37) a) Write down a square number between 50 and 80.
b) Katie says 'There is only one cube number between 10 and 60.'
Is Katie correct?
Explain how you know.
38) Nadiya has this recipe for cookies
She wants to make 20 cookies.
How much sugar does she need?
Makes 30 cookies
120g of butter
150g of sugar
1 egg
210g of flour
180g of chocolate chips
If Nadiya has 350g of flour and plenty of all of the other ingredients, what is the maximum number
of cookies she can make?
39) A, B and C are whole numbers.
A-B=3
C÷B=4
A = 9. Find the values of B and C
40) A teacher needs to buy a notebook for each of her 32 students.
She has £155 to buy the note books.
Each notebook costs £3.89.
How much money will she have left over?
41) Luca and Lilian are playing squash.
Luca wins twice as many games as Lilian.
They play 18 games. How many do they each win?
42) Alex and Sharon both grow pumpkins.
Alex's pumpkin weighs 1.8kg.
Sharon's pumpkin weighs 3 times more than Alex's,
What is the total mass of the pumpkins?
43) There are 1500 pupils in a school.
2/5
of the pupils walk to school
20% of the pupils cycle to school
How many of the pupils neither walk nor cycle to school?
44) There are six balls in a bag.
The probability of taking a red ball out of the bag is 0.5
A red ball is taken out of the bag, and put to one side.
What is the probability of taking another red ball out of the bag?
45) Here are four numbers. Their mean is 4 and their range is 0
Write four numbers that have a mean of 4 and a range of 4
Homework due in by Wednesday 14th October