Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
January 2026 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in January 2026, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in January 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2026A bag holds 6 red and 2 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 2nd January 202680 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 15 said yes. 5 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 3rd January 2026Work out (12 x 10^7) / (6 x 10^2). Give your answer in standard form.
- 4th January 2026A line has gradient -1 and passes through (2, 7). Work out its equation.
- 5th January 2026A coach travels 70 km in 1.5 hours, then 60 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 6th January 2026A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 22 cm and height 3 cm. The prism is 6 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 7th January 2026A bag holds 6 red and 5 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th January 2026A box plot has minimum 12, lower quartile 16, median 24, upper quartile 27 and maximum 37. Work out the interquartile range.
- 9th January 2026A meal deal has 6 mains, 5 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 10th January 2026Make x the subject of y = 4x^2 - 7.
- 11th January 2026Zara drives 140 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 12th January 2026Work out the size of one exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.
- 13th January 2026A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.1. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 14th January 2026A scatter graph plots the height of a tree and its age. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 15th January 2026A bill is £504 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 16th January 2026The angles in a triangle are 4x°, x° and (x + 72)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 17th January 2026Red and blue sweets are in the ratio 4 : 7. There are 52 red sweets. How many sweets are there altogether?
- 18th January 2026The bearing of B from A is 281°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 19th January 2026A bag holds 5 red and 3 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 20th January 2026Grouped data has five classes of width 10, the first being 0 < x <= 10. The frequencies in order are 16, 11, 21, 7, 3. Write down the modal class.
- 21st January 2026Work out (25 x 10^9) / (5 x 10^5). Give your answer in standard form.
- 22nd January 2026Expand and simplify 3(6x + 8).
- 23rd January 2026A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 2.5 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 24th January 2026A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 12 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 25th January 2026A bag holds 2 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th January 2026Of 46 students, 10 study French, 35 study German and 5 study both. How many study neither?
- 27th January 2026A meal deal has 9 mains, 8 sides and 5 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 28th January 2026A line has equation y = 6x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 29th January 2026A pack of 11 batteries costs £2.75. A pack of 22 costs £4.84. Which pack is better value?
- 30th January 2026A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 17 cm, 8 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 31st January 2026A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 200 times. How many heads would you expect?