Daily Practice · Foundation Plus
May 2026 - Foundation Plus 5-a-day
Every Foundation Plus sheet published in May 2026, with answers. Grades 4-6 - the Foundation / Higher crossover zone.
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Every sheet in May 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2026A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 100 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 2nd May 202645 beetles are marked and released. Later 50 are caught, of which 5 are marked. Estimate the population.
- 3rd May 2026A bill is £936 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 4th May 2026Factorise x^2 - 11x + 28.
- 5th May 2026Write the ratio 8 : 32 in the form 1 : n.
- 6th May 2026The bearing of B from A is 003°. Work out the bearing of A from B.
- 7th May 2026A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 8th May 2026A cumulative frequency graph is drawn for 132 values. What cumulative frequency do you read across from to estimate the lower quartile?
- 9th May 2026Work out (81 x 10^7) / (9 x 10^3). Give your answer in standard form.
- 10th May 2026Does the point (-4, 14) satisfy y > -3x + 7?
- 11th May 2026A coach travels 60 km in 1.5 hours, then 60 km in 2 hours. Work out the average speed for the whole journey, to 1 decimal place.
- 12th May 2026A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 7 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 13th May 2026A bag holds 5 red and 7 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.
- 14th May 202690 people were surveyed. 40 were adults, of whom 10 said yes. 15 of the children said yes. How many said yes altogether?
- 15th May 2026A meal deal has 8 mains, 8 sides and 4 drinks. How many different meals are possible?
- 16th May 2026A line has gradient -1 and passes through (5, 1). Work out its equation.
- 17th May 2026Nia drives 67.5 km in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 18th May 2026A trapezium has parallel sides of 12 cm and 24 cm, 14 cm apart. Work out its area.
- 19th May 2026A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.25. It is thrown 500 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 20th May 2026A box plot has minimum 6, lower quartile 14, median 23, upper quartile 29 and maximum 35. Work out the interquartile range.
- 21st May 2026A bill is £480 including VAT at 20%. Work out the amount before VAT.
- 22nd May 2026Make x the subject of y = 9x^2 - 4.
- 23rd May 2026Red and blue raffle tickets are in the ratio 2 : 5. There are 20 red raffle tickets. How many raffle tickets are there altogether?
- 24th May 2026Four angles meet at a point. Three of them are 70°, 67° and 101°. Work out the fourth.
- 25th May 2026A bag holds 4 red and 8 blue counters. Two are taken without replacement. Work out the probability both are red.
- 26th May 2026A scatter graph plots rainfall in a week and the number of umbrellas sold. What type of correlation would you expect?
- 27th May 2026Work out (35 x 10^6) / (5 x 10^4). Give your answer in standard form.
- 28th May 2026The angles in a triangle are 4x°, 2x° and (x + 96)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 29th May 2026A map has a scale of 1 : 50000. Two villages are 2 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they in real life, in km?
- 30th May 2026A prism has a triangular cross-section with base 6 cm and height 6 cm. The prism is 11 cm long. Work out its volume.
- 31st May 2026A bag holds 3 red and 4 blue counters. One is taken, replaced, then another is taken. Work out the probability both are red.