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What is the smallest whole number Q
that will round up to 40?
A
35
What is 5x plus 2x?
A
7x
Q
What do you call an angle that is
less than 90°?
Q
What is 729 to the nearest
hundred?
A
acute
A
700
Q
How do you calculate the area of a
rectangle?
Q
How do you find the mode of a set
of data?
L
B
A
Multiply the length by the breadth.
A
Find the most frequent value.
Q
What are the four cardinal points
of a compass in clockwise order?
Q
Work out 8 + 2 x 5
A
18 (do the x first, unless brackets
suggest otherwise)
A
North, east, south, west
Q
Work out 3(8 + 2)
Q
What is 99 + 38?
A
= 3 x 10
= 30
A
137
(add 100 to 38, then take away 1)
Q
What is
Q
Roughly, what do you multiply the
diameter by to calculate the
circumference of a circle?
form?
4
written in its simplest
8
A
½
A
3
Q
What do you call the straight line
from the centre of a circle to the
edge of the circle?
Q
What numbers go into both 15 and
55?
A
radius
A
1 and 5
Q
What is the highest common
factor of 12 and 15?
Q
What is the smallest number that
is a multiple of both 30 and 40?
A
3
A
120
Q
What is special about congruent
shapes?
Q
What are the coordinates of the
origin?
A
They are identical.
A
(0, 0)
Q
What are the coordinates of x?
Q
What is the mathematical name for
the shape of a can of beans?
x
1
1
A
(2, 1)
A
cylinder
Q
How many decimal places does 3.46
have?
Q
If you roll two normal dice and add
the scores, what totals can you
make?
A
Any whole number from 2 to 12
inclusive
A
2
Q
The temperature outside is 3°C.
It drops by 8°C.
What is the temperature now?
Q
I enlarge a shape with a scale facto
of 3. One side was 5cm. How long is
it now?
A
-5°C
A
15 cm
Q
Solve the equation.
x  6  15
Q
What percentage is the same as one
half?
A
x 9
A
50%
Q
Roughly, how many feet in a metre?
Q
Double 3x + 2
A
3
A
6x + 4
Q
Expand 5(2y  3)
Q
What are the factors of 12?
A
10y - 15
A
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
Q
What is half of a half?
Q
What do you get if you add one half
to one quarter?
A
a quarter
A
three quarters (¾)
Q
What is the formula for finding the
perimeter of a square of side s?
Q
What is he cost of 5 pencils at m
pence each?
A
P = 4s
A
5m pence
Q
What do the angles in a triangle
total?
Q
What is the equation of this line?
A
180°
A
y=4
Q
How many inches in a foot?
Q
How do we write s  s  s ?
A
12
A
s3
Q
What is the largest prime number
less than 10?
Q
What is the smallest prime number
more than 10?
A
7
A
11
Q
What is special about an isosceles
triangle?
Q
What is special about an equilateral
triangle?
A
It has two sides equal and two
angles equal.
A
It has all its sides equal, and all its
angles equal to 60°.
Q
How do you find the mean of a set
of numbers?
Q
How do you find the median of a set
of numbers?
A
Put them in order and find the
middle value. If there is a middle
pair, take the average of the pair.
A
Add them all up and divide by how
many numbers there are.
Q
What metric unit would you use to
measure the distance from London
to Paris?
Q
How many metres in a kilometre?
A
Kilometres
A
1000
Q
How many millimetres in a
centimetre?
Q
How many centimetres in a metre?
A
10
A
100
1
1
1
4
2
Q
What is
a) 5 x 4
A
a) 20
What are the first few multiples of
6?
Q
Work out
a) 5 - 9 b) 6 + -11
A
6, 12, 18, 24, 30, …
A
a) -4
Q
What are the next two numbers in
these sequences?
a) 2, 6, 10, 14, …
b) 1, 4, 9, 16, …
Q
“All multiples of 5 end in 5”
True or false?
A
a) 18, 22
A
False, they could also end in 0
Q
How many sides has a pentagon?
An octagon?
Q
a) State an odd square number.
b) State an even cube number.
A
a) e.g. 1, 9, 25, 49, … (1x1, 3x3, …)
b) e.g. 8, 64, 216, … (2x2x2, 4x4x4,)
Q
Work out 1
A
2
Q
A
3
4
5, 8
b) 25, 36 (squares)
b) 6 x 3
b) 18
b) -5
c) 7 x 7
c) 49
c) 3 x -5
c) -15
Q
Sketch a) two parallel lines
b) two perpendicular lines
Q
Draw a parallelogram.
A
A
Q
What is 3% of £1?
Q
In a pie chart, what is the sum of all
the angles of the sectors?
A
3p
A
360°
Q
Describe a trapezium.
Q
What do we call a polygon with six
sides?
A
A four sided shape with one pair of
parallel lines.
A
a hexagon
Q
What do we mean when we say ‘two
cubed’?
Q
What is a prime number?
A
A number with exactly two
different factors, itself and 1.
A
2 x 2 x 2, or 8
Q
If I buy 5 pencils for 35 pence, how Q
much should I pay for 3 pencils?
A
1 costs 35 ÷ 5 = 7pence, so 3 will
cost 21 pence
Q
How many sides has a quadrilateral?
A
4
A bus travels at 40 miles per hour.
How far will it go in 3 hours?
Q
Burt is 5 times older than Luke.
Burt is 65. How old is Luke?
A
120 miles
A
13
Q
How many degrees in a right angle?
Q
How many lines of symmetry in
A
0, 2, infinite, 2, 0, 1
(The little line at the top of the C is
not reflected at the bottom.)
Q
Describe a cuboid.
A
A solid with 6 flat rectangular
faces
A
90
Q
A plan is drawn to a scale of 1cm to
5 metres. What distance does 3.1
cm represent?
A
15.5 metres
C, H, O, I, C, E?
Q
How many edges does a cube have?
A
12
Q
If x = 4, what is the value of
3x – 2?
Q
Hw do you calculate the range of a
set of data?
A
Find the difference between the
largest and smallest values.
Q
If one angle in a triangle is 80°, give
an example of what the other two
angles could be.
A
e.g. 70° and 30°
(any two angles that add to 100°)
A
10
Q
How do you calculate the volume of
a cuboid?
Q
How many grams in a kilogram?
A
multiply the length by the width by
the height
A
1000
Q
Work out 356 + 275 using paper and Q
pencil.
A
631
A
Put these numbers in order,
smallest first.
7, 0, -9, -2, 8
-9, -2, 0, 1, 8