Maths - No Problem Extra Challenges, Ages 9-10 (Key Stage 2)
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Ruby Elliott Amira Charles Lulu Sam Oak Holly Ravi Emma Jacob Hannah
Numbers to 1 000 000 Lesson
1
Starter
Jacob is making numbers using digit cards.
This is the last number he makes.
2 1 6 9 3 4
He then decides to swap the places of some digit cards and makes 3 swaps.
What is the greatest number he can make?
What is the smallest number he can make?
Example
2 1 6 9 3 4
To make the
The greatest
greatest number
digit is 9.
we need to have
9 1 6 2 3 4
as many hundred
thousands, ten
thousands and 9 1 6 2 3 4
thousands as The second
possible. greatest digit
9 6 1 2 3 4 is 6.
9 6 1 2 3 4
The last digit
we can change
9 6 4 2 3 1
should be 4.
964 231 is the greatest number Jacob can make by making 3 swaps.
4
2 1 6 9 3 4
To make the smallest
number we place the 1 in the
Change 1 1 2 6 9 3 4 hundred thousands place.
Change 2 1 2 3 9 6 4
Change 3 1 2 3 4 6 9
123 469 is the smallest number Jacob can make by making 3 swaps.
Practice
1 Swap the places of 2 digits in each number with 2 others to make
a number as close as possible to 500 000.
5
Adding and subtracting Lesson
2
Starter
Emma and her family are on holiday in Indonesia. Emma has Rp1 000 000
(Indonesian Rupiah) to spend (approximately £50).
Rp375 659
Rp240 999
How much will she have left after buying the 2 items?
Example
Start by
finding the cost of
the 2 items.
? 1 1 1 1
3 7 5 6 5 9
+ 2 4 0 9 9 9
6
Subtract the total cost of the 2 items
from the amount Emma started with.
9 9 9 9 9
1 000 000 10 10 10 10 10 10
1 0 0 0 0 0 0
− 6 1 6 6 5 8
616 658 ? 3 8 3 3 4 2
Emma will have Rp383 342 left after buying the 2 items.
Practice
Emma’s dad buys the following items.
How much money will he have left if he starts with Rp1 000 000?
Starter
A group of pupils take part in 3 outdoor activities: kayaking, climbing and
archery. They are put into groups of 4 for kayaking, groups of 8 for climbing and
groups of 14 for archery. Each activity has more than 1 group.
What is the minimum number of pupils taking part in the outdoor activities?
Example
We know that
each activity has more than 1 Find the
group so climbing must have multiples of
more than 8 pupils. 4 and 8.
Multiples of 4: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56
Multiples of 8: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56
The minimum number of pupils taking part in the 3 outdoor activities is 56.
Practice
1 A baker makes some doughnuts. He can pack
them all exactly into boxes of 6. He can also
pack them all exactly into boxes of 8 or 18
without having any doughnuts left over.
(a) What is the minimum number of doughnuts the baker has made?
(b) Using the minimum number of doughnuts the baker has made, what
other size boxes could the baker pack the doughnuts into without
having any left over?
9
Prime numbers Lesson
4
Starter
Oak looked at her maths homework
and noticed something.
10 = 1 × 10 11 = 1 × 11 12 = 1 × 12 13 = 1 × 13
12 = 3 × 4
12 = 2 × 6 10 = 2 × 5
13 = 1 × 13 12 = 1 × 12 11 = 1 × 11 10 = 1 × 10
10 = 2 × 5 12 = 2 × 6
12 = 3 × 4
Example
Is it true that all
even numbers have more
All of the even than 2 factors?
numbers in Oak’s list have
more than 2 factors.
2=1×2
2 is the only even
number that is also a All multiples of 2,
prime number. greater than 2, have more
than 2 factors. Look at
these examples.
20 = 1 × 20 56 = 1 × 56 102 = 1 × 102
20 = 2 × 10 56 = 2 × 28 102 = 2 × 51
20 = 4 × 5 56 = 4 × 14 102 = 3 × 34
56 = 7 × 8 102 = 6 × 17
10
Numbers with more than 2 factors
are called composite numbers.
21 = 1 × 21 35 = 1 × 35 99 = 1 × 99
21 = 3 × 7 35 = 5 × 7 99 = 3 × 33
99 = 9 × 11
21, 35 and 99 are composite numbers.
A prime number
has only 2 factors,
1 and itself.
Practice
1 Fill the table using the following numbers.
32 14 63 29 43 15 148 117 101 105 144
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Multiplying 3-digit numbers Lesson
5
Starter
The Fresh Supermarket receives a delivery of
I think each
346 boxes, each containing 24 teabags.
supermarket receives
The Sunshine Supermarket receives a delivery
the same number
of 692 boxes, each containing 12 teabags.
of teabags.
Is Hannah correct?
Example
12 692 × 10 = 6920
Start by multiplying 692 × 2 = 1384
692 by 12. 692 × 12 = 8304
10 2
1
6 9 2
× 1 2
700 + 700 = 1400 1 3 8 4 692 × 2 = 1384
1400 – 16 = 1384 6 9 2 0 692 × 10 = 6920
8 3 0 4 692 × 12 = 8304
1
1 2
3 4 6
12
692 is double 346.
692 × 12 and 346 × 24
12 is half of 24.
have the same product.
Hannah is correct.
Both supermarkets receive the same number of teabags.
Practice
1 What do you notice about the products of 235 × 28 and 470 × 14?
2 3 5 4 7 0
× 2 8 × 1 4
+ +
139 × 24 132 × 36
456 × 30 278 × 12
264 × 18 742 × 14
371 × 28 912 × 15
214 × 14 76 × 16
152 × 8 428 × 7
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Dividing 4-digit numbers Lesson
6
Starter
A truck makes 4 return journeys between
Brighton and Edinburgh in a week.
The total distance the truck travels over
the 4 return journeys is 6048 km.
What is the distance between Brighton
and Edinburgh?
Example
7 5 6 7 5 6
4 4
8 6 0 4 8 8 6 0 4 8
− 5 6
4 4 8
− 4 0
4 8
− 4 8
0
6048 ÷ 8 = 756
2 The distance between London and Mumbai (India) is 8 times the distance
between Paris (France) and Genoa (Italy). The distance between London
and Mumbai is 7184 km.
What is the distance between Paris and Genoa?
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Adding and subtracting Lesson
7
fractions
Starter
Holly makes some chocolate milk by
1
mixing ___ l of chocolate syrup with
20
7
___ l of milk. She trips as she walks
10
1
to the table, spilling __ l of her
4
chocolate milk.
What is the volume of the chocolate milk
Holly has left in her jug?
Example
×2
7 14
=
10 20
We need
×2
to make tenths into
1 ___
___ 7 ___
1 ___14 twentieths.
+ = +
20 10 20 20
15
= ___
20
15
The volume of Holly’s chocolate milk before she spilt it was ___ l.
20
16
We need to subtract
1 15
l from l.
4 20 The denominators
×5 need to be the same
1 5 to subtract.
=
4 20
15 __
___ 1 15 5 10
– = ___ – ___ = ___ ×5
20 4 20 20 20
10 1
Holly has ___ l or __ l of chocolate milk left in her jug.
20 2
Practice
1 1
1 Ravi mixes __ l of yellow paint with __ l of blue paint to make light green paint.
2 8
1
He uses __ l on his painting. What is the volume of paint that Ravi has left?
4
3 1
2 Ruby makes a tropical punch using __ l of orange juice and ___ l of lime
4 12
1_
_
juice. She gives l of the tropical punch to her sister and keeps the rest for
3
herself. What volume of tropical punch does Ruby keep for herself?
Starter
Hannah cuts 3 different types of sushi rolls
into 6 equal pieces.
She takes 1 piece from each of the different
sushi rolls.
How much of the sushi rolls are left altogether?
Example
5
6
5
Each roll has 6
5 sixths. 5
6
15
___ 3 We have 3 groups of 5.
= 2 __
6 6
5
1
6
5
1
6
5 3
6 6
3
There are 2 __ sushi rolls left altogether.
6
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Practice
1 Oak has 3 chocolate bars. Each bar is the same size and has 8 equal pieces.
If Oak takes 1 piece from each bar, what is the total number of chocolate
bars she has left?
7
8
7
8
7
8
7
3 × __ =
8
7 7 7
2 Charles uses ___ l of water, ___ l of vegetable stock, ___ l of chicken stock
10 10 10
7
___
and l of coconut milk to make soup.
10
What is the total volume of soup that he makes?
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Multiplying mixed numbers Lesson
9
Starter
The mass of a rabbit is 2 kg.
3
The mass of a small dog is 3 __ times
4
greater than the mass of the rabbit.
What is the mass of the dog? 2 kg ?
Example
We can multiply
the whole numbers and
the fraction.
2×3=6
3 6
2× =
4 4
3 6
2×3=6 2× =
4 4
3 6 6 2
2 × 3 __ = 6 __ =1
4 4 4 4
2
2 I know is
= 7 __ 4
4 1
equal to .
2
1
The mass of the dog is 7 __ kg.
2
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Practice
1 A restaurant offers cheesecake or chocolate cake for dessert.
4
The restaurant has 2 chocolate cakes. It has 2 __ times more cheesecake
5
than chocolate cake. How many cheesecakes does the restaurant have?
5
2 Sam uses 3 l of water to water his front garden. He uses 5 __ times more
8
water to water the back garden.
(a) What volume of water does Sam use to water the back garden?
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Ordering and comparing Lesson
10
decimals
Starter
The following volumes of paint will be mixed to create a unique colour.
Example
Practice
1 Use >, < or = to fill in the blanks.
, ,
greatest smallest
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Adding and subtracting Lesson
11
decimals
Starter
On Monday Ravi had 1.25 l of orange juice
and 1.155 l of apple juice in his fridge. By
Wednesday Ravi had drunk 1.5 l of juice.
What is the total volume of juice Ravi has Juice Juice
Example
1.25 = 1.250
1 . 2 5 0
+ 1 . 1 5 5
. 5
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Add the hundredths.
5 hundredths + 5 hundredths = 10 hundredths
Rename 10 hundredths
as 1 tenth.
10 hundredths = 1 tenth
1
1 . 2 5 0
+ 1 . 1 5 5
. 0 5
1
1 . 2 5 0
+ 1 . 1 5 5
. 4 0 5
1
1 . 2 5 0
+ 1 . 1 5 5
2 . 4 0 5
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Subtract 1.5 l from
We are not
2.405 l to find the volume
subtracting any hundredths
of juice remaining.
or thousandths.
2 . 4 0 5
− 1 . 5
0 5
There are not
enough tenths. Rename 1 one as 10 tenths.
2 . 4 0 5
− 1 . 5
. 0 5
1 14
2 . 4 0 5
− 1 . 5
. 9 0 5
1 14
2 . 4 0 5
− 1 . 5
0 . 9 0 5
2.34 kg + 2.155 kg = kg
(b) Find the mass of mixture remaining once Hannah has used 1.7 kg.
kg – 1.7 kg = kg
2 Ruby and her sister are making bracelets. Ruby cuts 4.6 m of thread from
a 9 m piece and gives it to her sister. She then buys a 5.55 m piece of
thread. What is the total length of thread Ruby has now?
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Percentages Lesson
12
Starter
The table shows the number of
Team Number of goals
goals scored by each football
team in a single season. Greystone Greats 30
How can we find the percentage Hills United 75
of goals each football team
Plymouth Pirates 18
scored out of the total of 300
goals scored in the season? Waterside United 60
Tunbridge Tigers 57
Brighton Bosses 39
East Coast Flyers 21
All teams 300
Example
Percentage
means how many
The table shows
out of 100.
the number of goals
out of 300.
÷3
We need to
find how many this 30 10
= 10
is out of 100. 300 100 = 10%
100
÷3
The Greystone Greats scored 10% of the total goals scored in the season.
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÷3
What percentage of
the total goals did 75 25
= 25
Hills United score? 300 100 = 25%
100
÷3
Practice
1 The table shows the number of goals scored by each football team out
of the total of 300 goals scored by all teams in the season.
Complete the table.
Percentage of the
Team Number of goals
total of 300 goals
Greystone Greats 30 10%
Hills United 75 25%
Plymouth Pirates 18
Waterside United 60
Tunbridge Tigers 57
Brighton Bosses 39
East Coast Flyers 21
2 Four friends played a card game. The table shows the number of bonus
points scored by each friend out of the maximum possible bonus points
available for each player.
Complete the table.
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Line graphs Lesson
13
0
09:00 09:10 09:20 09:30 09:40 09:50 10:00 10:10 10:20
Example
24
We can see
that the bus 20
travelled at a
rate of 4 km every 16
distance
10 minutes for (km) 12
30 minutes.
8
0
09:00 09:10 09:20 09:30 09:40 09:50 10:00 10:10 10:20
30
24
How many times
did the bus stop? 20
16
distance
(km) 12
3 times.
4
0
09:00 09:10 09:20 09:30 09:40 09:50 10:00 10:10 10:20
The bus
stopped for a total
of 30 minutes.
Between
09:40 and 10:00
the bus travelled at 24
a rate of 2 km every
20
10 minutes.
16
distance
(km) 12
8
This is
slower than the 4
31
We can 24
also find the
20
start and finish
times of the journey 16
as well as the distance
total distance (km) 12
travelled.
8
0
The bus journey 09:00 09:10 09:20 09:30 09:40 09:50 10:00 10:10 10:20
started at 09:00 and
finished at 10:20.
The bus travelled 16 km.
Practice
Number of Pages Read
1 The line graph
shows the 40
progress Holly
number of pages
30
made while
reading her 20
book last
Sunday. 10
0
10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30
(e) For how long was Holly reading between 10:30 and 13:30? h
2 Lulu and her mum painted their garden fence. The line graph shows the
volume of paint they used over 4 hours.
Volume of Paint
6
4
volume
(l) 3
0
12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00
(b) Lulu painted by herself between 13:30 and 14:00. The rate at
which she used the paint when she was painting by herself was
l every 30 minutes.
(d) Lulu and her mum stopped painting for an hour to have a late lunch.
At what time did they start painting again after their lunch?
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Capacity Lesson
14
Starter
Ravi wants to find the capacity of the
large box.
4 cm
5 cm
10 cm
The length of the large box is twice the length of the small box.
The height of the large box is twice the height of the small box.
What is the capacity of the large box?
Example
4 cm
Each is
equal to 1 cm3.
5 cm
10 cm
Each layer would
10 × 5 × 4 = 50 × 4 have 50 .
= 200
The capacity of the small box is 200 cm³.
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If one
Find the capacity measurement doubles,
of the large box. the capacity also
doubles.
8 cm
If two
measurements double,
5 cm the capacity doubles then
20 cm doubles again.
20 × 5 × 8 = 100 × 8
= 800
The capacity of the large box is 800 cm³.
Practice
Find the capacity of each box.
1 3 cm × × = ×
4 cm
5 cm =
Capacity = cm³
2 × × = ×
6 cm
=
4 cm
5 cm Capacity = cm³
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Perimeter Lesson
15
Starter 10 cm 6 cm
Jacob made this figure using
2 rectangles. Each rectangle is
the same size.
What is the perimeter of the
figure Jacob made?
Example
10 cm 6 cm
10 – 6 = 4 6 cm
10 cm
3 × 10 = 30 10 cm
3 × 6 = 18 4 cm
30 + 18 + 4 = 52
6 cm
Perimeter = 52 cm
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Practice
1 Find the perimeter of the following figure.
10 cm
The figure is made from 5 identical squares.
Perimeter = cm
(a) (b)
4 cm
5 cm
Perimeter = cm Perimeter = cm
(c) (d)
2 cm
3 cm
Perimeter = cm
Perimeter = cm
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Area Lesson
16
Starter 5m
Hannah needs to find the area
of her garden so she can buy
the right amount of grass seed. 10 m
How can Hannah find the area 6m
of her garden? 3m
Example
We can make
2 rectangles. Find the area of
each rectangle.
5m 5m
10 m B 10 m
6m 6m
3m 3m A
Area of A = 3 × 6 Area of B = 5 × 10
= 18 m² = 50 m²
Area of A and B = 18 m² + 50 m²
= 68 m²
1
2m C
D 4m
5m
2m
Area of C = × Area of D = ×
= m² = m²
m² + m² = m²
Area = m²
2 10 m 10 m
3
6m
9m
2m 4m 4m
6m
2m 2m
Area = m² Area = m²
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Angles Lesson
17
Starter
Ruby drew a building using 2 identical rectangles.
She found the size of 1 angle but wanted to find the size of s.
37°
Example
A rectangle has
37° 4 right angles.
s
The 4 interior
angles in a rectangle
sum to 360°.
40
37° Angles on a straight
line sum to 180°.
s
s = 53°
115°
51° Start by finding m.
n
m
m = 39°
41
115° Angles at a point
51° sum to 360°.
n
39°
n = 65°
Practice
Find the size of each angle.
u
37°
48° t
t= ° u= °
42
2
42° c
c= °
3
Angles in a triangle
p sum to 180°.
41°
r
q
p= ° q= ° r= °
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Position Lesson
18
Starter
y
Triangle CDE is
10
reflected twice and is C
9
shown in its final 8
position. 7
How has triangle CDE 6
D E
5
been reflected?
4
What are the final 3
coordinates of 2
triangle CDE? 1
x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Example
y
The first reflection
takes place in the 10
C
line HI. 9
8
7
6
H D E I
5
4
3
2
1
x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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y
The second J
10
reflection C
9
takes place in 8
the line JK. 7
6
H D E I
5
C reflects from
4
(3, 9) to (17, 1). 3
2
D reflects from 1
(3, 6) to (17, 4). K
x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
E reflects from
(8, 6) to (12, 4). We can find the coordinates of
triangle CDE after the two reflections.
Practice
The trapezium JKLM y
C
is first reflected in 10
K L
the line CD. 9
It is then reflected 8
7
in the line EF. 6
J M
Draw the final E F
5
position of trapezium 4
JKLM to find the 3
2
final coordinates.
1
D x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
J reflects from ( , ) to ( , ).
K reflects from ( , ) to ( , ).
L reflects from ( , ) to ( , ).
M reflects from ( , ) to ( , ).
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Answers
Page 5 1 (a) 508 243 (b) 497 325 (c) 473 201 (d) 512 799
2 (a) 223 357 (b) 352 237 (c) 522 337
820 004
8 2 0 0 0 4 1 7 9 9 9 6
Page 9 1 (a) 72 (b) The baker could pack the doughnuts into boxes of 12, 4 or 3 without having
any left over.
Page 11 1 Composite numbers Prime numbers
32, 14, 63, 15, 148, 117, 105, 144 29, 43, 101
2 75, 77, 81, 85, 87, 91, 93, 95, 99
1
Page 13 1 2 4 2 The products are the same.
2 3 5 4 7 0
× 2 8 × 1 4
1 8 8 0 1 8 8 0
+ 4 7 0 0 + 4 7 0 0
6 5 8 0 6 5 8 0
2 139 × 24 132 × 36
456 × 30 278 × 12
264 × 18 742 × 14
371 × 28 912 × 15
214 × 14 76 × 16
152 × 8 428 × 7
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4122 km
6 8 7
Page 15 1
6 4 1 2 2
1 return journey
The distance between Plymouth and Newcastle is 687 km.
7184 km
8 9 8
2 7 6
8 7 1 8 6
?
The distance between Paris and Genoa is 898 km.
1 1 4 1 5 5 1 5 2 3 3
Page 17 1 __ + __ = __ + __ = __ ; __ – __ = __ – __ = __ . Ravi has __ l of paint left.
2 8 8 8 8 8 4 8 8 8 8
3 1 9 1 10 10 1 10 4 6 1 1
2 __ + ___ = ___ + ___ = ___ ; ___ – __ = ___ – ___ = ___ = __ . Ruby keeps __ l of the tropical
4 12 12 12 12 12 3 12 12 12 2 2
punch for herself.
Page 19 1 7
8
7
8
7
8
7 5 5 7 8
3 × __ = 2 __. Oak has 2 __ chocolate bars left. 2 4 × ___ = 2 ___. The total volume of soup
8 8 8 10 10
8
Charles makes is 2 ___ l.
10
4 8 3 3 3 3
Page 21 1 2 × 2 = 4; 2 × __ = __ = 1 __ ; 4 + 1 __ = 5 __ . The restaurant has 5 __ cheesecakes.
5 5 5 5 5 5
5 15 7 7
2 (a) 3 × 5 __ = 15 ___ = 16 __ . Sam uses 16 __ l of water to water the back garden.
8 8 8 8
7 7 7
(b) 3 + 16 __ = 19 __ . Sam uses 19 __ l of water in total.
8 8 8
Page 23 1 (a) 3.44 > 3.05 (b) 4.99 < 5.01 (c) 2.564 < 2.645 (d) 34.014 > 34.01 (e) 5.679 > 5.08
(f ) 6.1 > 6.099 2 (a) 3.4, 3.42, 3.5 (b) 9.08, 9.12, 9.131 (c) 13.001, 13.021, 13.101
3 4.35 kg, 4.307 kg, 4.039 kg
Page 27 1 (a) 2.34 kg + 2.155 kg = 4.495 kg. The total mass of the mixture is 4.495 kg.
(b) 4.495 kg – 1.7 kg = 2.795 kg. The mass of the remaining mixture is 2.795 kg.
2 Ruby has 9.95 m of thread.
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Answers continued
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