KS2 (P5 - P7)
Who wants
to be a mathionaire?
We do!
Pupils will enjoy the challenge, the excitement and achievement of this
Teachers can also play!
game.
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It will encourage pupils to:
There are different ways to play:
• learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts
• recognise multiples and fractions of familiar numbers
• find fractions of numbers and quantities
• understand and use the correct notation for money.
• pupils try all the questions and score points for the questions they get correct
• pupils start with the easiest questions – when they get
a question wrong, that’s the end of their turn and they score points at the last secure level (1,000 points, 5,000 points, 50,000 points etc).
How to raise money
You can play this game as a class:
Pupils are sponsored for every question they get right or parents and carers can make a donation.
• by asking a quick-fire question with the first pupil answering correctly becoming the contestant
• in teams, with each team answering all the questions, recording their answers and checking them at the end
of the game
• individually, with each pupil answering all the questions, recording their answers and checking them at the end
of the game
• in groups of about four, where one pupil acts as the
question master, one as the contestant and the others as
the audience/friend. Members of the group swap around so that every pupil has the chance to be the contestant. Then all the answers are marked and the highest number of points scored is taken as the score for all the members of the group
• groups of pupils can write their own lists of questions.
What you need:
• a set of question sheets for the pupils / contestants
(There are 12 questions for each game)
• the answer sheet for the host
• chairs for the contestants to sit on
• the interactive PowerPoint presentation (optional) .
How to play:
There are 12 questions, each of which has four multiple
choice answers. The questions increase in difficulty
through the game.
The following are suggested questions that could be used
for the key stages indicated. The underlined answer is
correct. The questions are arranged in order of difficulty.
Add to them and replace questions as appropriate for
your class.
KS2 (P5 - P7)
Question sheet
1 (500 points)
David collects football stickers. There are 6
stickers in a packet. How many stickers are
there in 5 packets?
a) 11
b) 20
c) 30
d) 34
2 (1,000 points)
What is the difference between 63 and 37?
a) 26 b) 34
c) 100
d) 36
3 (2,000 points)
Ayesha shared 24 strawberries equally between
6 children? What operation did she use?
a) addition
b) subtraction
c) multiplication
d) division
4 (5,000 points)
Which shape has 5 vertices and 5 faces?
a) square
b) square based pyramid
c) triangular prism
d) cube
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5 (10,000 points)
What operation makes this number sentence
correct?
27 ? 3 = 9
a) +
b) - c) x
d) ÷
6 (20,000 points)
2
There are 27 cherries in the box and Asif ate –3 of
them. How many did he eat?
a) 6
b) 9
c) 18
d) 22
7 (50,000 points)
Jack thinks of a number, adds 5 and divides it by
4. The answer is 7. What was his number?
a) 3
b) 48
c) 33
d) 23
8 (75,000 points)
John built a tower with different colour bricks.
The blue brick was below the green brick. The
green brick was below the red brick. The yellow
brick was at the bottom. What was the order of
the bricks?
a) RGBY
b) YBGR c) BGRY
d) RGYB
9 (125,000 points)
Priya was born on 25th March 1999. How old
will she be on the 3rd February 2015?
a) 14
b) 15
c) 16
d) 17
10 (250,000 points)
Jane is making a cake. She needs 1 egg for
every 60 grams of flour. How many eggs does
she need if she is using 240 grams of flour.
a) 3
b) 40
c) 4
d) 30
11 (500,000 points)
I am facing North and make a 3–4 turn clockwise.
How many degrees have I turned through?
a) 90º
b) 180º
c) 270º
d) 360º
12 (1,000,000 points)
Alice catches a bus to town. The journey is
35 minutes long. She arrived at 2:10. What time
did the bus leave?
a) 2:45 b) 1:40 c) 1:45
d) 1:35
KS2 (P5 - P7)
Answer sheet
1 (500 points)
David collects football stickers. There are 6
stickers in a packet. How many stickers are
there in 5 packets?
a) 11
b) 20
c) 30
d) 34
2 (1,000 points)
What is the difference between 63 and 37?
a) 26 b) 34
c) 100
d) 36
3 (2,000 points)
Ayesha shared 24 strawberries equally between
6 children? What operation did she use?
a) addition
b) subtraction
c) multiplication
d) division
4 (5,000 points)
Which shape has 5 vertices and 5 faces?
a) square
b) square based pyramid
c) triangular prism
d) cube
©2016 NSPCC. Registered charity England and Wales 216401 and Scotland SC037717. J20161260
5 (10,000 points)
What operation makes this number sentence
correct?
27 ? 3 = 9
a) +
b) - c) x
d) ÷
6 (20,000 points)
There are 27 cherries in the box and Asif ate 2–3 of
them. How many did he eat?
a) 6
b) 9
c) 18
d) 22
7 (50,000 points)
Jack thinks of a number, adds 5 and divides it by
4. The answer is 7. What was his number?
a) 3
b) 48
c) 33
d) 23
8 (75,000 points)
John built a tower with different colour bricks.
The blue brick was below the green brick. The
green brick was below the red brick. The yellow
brick was at the bottom. What was the order of
the bricks?
a) RGBY
b) YBGR c) BGRY
d) RGYB
9 (125,000 points)
Priya was born on 25th March 1999. How old
will she be on the 3rd February 2015?
a) 14
b) 15
c) 16
d) 17
10 (250,000 points)
Jane is making a cake. She needs 1 egg for
every 60 grams of flour. How many eggs does
she need if she is using 240 grams of flour.
a) 3
b) 40
c) 4
d) 30
11 (500,000 points)
3
I am facing North and make a –4 turn clockwise.
How many degrees have I turned through?
a) 90º
b) 180º
c) 270º
d) 360º
12 (1,000,000 points)
Alice catches a bus to town. The journey is
35 minutes long. She arrived at 2:10. What time
did the bus leave?
a) 2:45 b) 1:40 c) 1:45
d) 1:35