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December 1959 5-a-day

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December 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in December 1959

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 1959Using the formula A = s x s, find A when s = 7.
  2. 2nd December 1959A pupil scores 65, 72 and 80 on three tests. What score is needed on a fourth test for the mean of all four to be 75?
  3. 3rd December 1959A graph shows a car uses a 50-litre tank of fuel to travel 400km at a steady rate. How far can it travel on 20 litres?
  4. 4th December 1959A model car is built at a scale of 1:20. If the real car is 4m long, how long is the model, in cm?
  5. 5th December 1959Tom is older than Sam. Sam is older than Priya. Is Tom older than Priya?
  6. 6th December 1959Calculate: 12.6 + 5.75.
  7. 7th December 1959In a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adds up to 15. The grid is: Row 1: 8, a, 6. Row 2: 3, 5, 7. Row 3: 4, 9, b. Find a and b.
  8. 8th December 1959Order these numbers from smallest to largest: -6, 3, -2, -9.
  9. 9th December 1959A baker makes 96 rolls. She sells half in the morning, then a quarter of what remains in the afternoon. How many rolls are left at the end of the day?
  10. 10th December 1959The nth term of a sequence is 3n + 2. Find the 5th term.
  11. 11th December 1959Convert 2.5 kilograms to grams.
  12. 12th December 1959Convert 9/20 to a percentage.
  13. 13th December 1959Order these decimals from smallest to largest: 0.6, 0.56, 0.605, 0.65.
  14. 14th December 1959Find 3/4 of 48.
  15. 15th December 1959Decrease 240 by 15%.
  16. 16th December 1959A weekly budget is 25 pounds. After buying items costing 8 pounds 40 and 6 pounds 15, how much of the budget remains?
  17. 17th December 1959A rectangle has a length of 9cm and a width of 4cm. Find its area.
  18. 18th December 1959A square has an area of 81 cm squared. What is the length of one side?
  19. 19th December 1959Convert 0.6 to a fraction in its simplest form.
  20. 20th December 1959A scale drawing has a scale of 1 : 200. A wall on the drawing is 8 cm long. Work out the real length of the wall in metres.
  21. 21st December 1959A warehouse has 27 boxes, each containing 48 tins. How many tins in total?
  22. 22nd December 1959A car travels 180 km in 3 hours. What is its average speed in km/h?
  23. 23rd December 1959A shop sells apples at 35p each. How much do 6 apples cost, in pounds?
  24. 24th December 1959If a=4 and b=3, find the value of 2a+3b.
  25. 25th December 1959Write 'twenty five past six in the evening' using the 24-hour clock.
  26. 26th December 1959Using the bag above, what is the probability of NOT picking a red counter?
  27. 27th December 1959In the number 5.372, what is the value of the digit 7?
  28. 28th December 1959A square sheet is folded in half vertically, then in half vertically again the same way, so the sheet is now a quarter of its original width but full height (4 layers thick). A hole is punched near the middle of the height, well away from any crease. How many holes will appear when the paper is fully unfolded?
  29. 29th December 1959Figure 1: an arrow pointing at 12 o'clock with a flag folded exactly halfway along its shaft. Figure 2: an arrow pointing at 3 o'clock with a flag folded exactly halfway along its shaft. Figure 3: an arrow pointing at 6 o'clock with a flag folded exactly halfway along its shaft. Which follows the same rule: an arrow pointing at 9 o'clock with its flag folded exactly halfway, or an arrow pointing at 9 o'clock with its flag folded a quarter of the way along?
  30. 30th December 1959Find the missing letter: STA ( ? ) OVE, where the letter completes the first word and starts the second.
  31. 31st December 1959Find the one word that completes both words in brackets to make two new compound words: WIND ( ? ) PIPE