Daily Practice · Foundation
December 2009 - Foundation 5-a-day
Every Foundation sheet published in December 2009, with answers. Grades 3-4 - securing a Foundation pass: fractions, percentages, angles and the first algebra.
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The batch download puts all 5 tiers' December 2009 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 155 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2009Two parallel lines are crossed by a straight line. One of a pair of co-interior (allied) angles is 80°. Work out the other.
- 2nd December 2009A bag holds 8 red, 3 blue and 2 green counters. One is taken at random. Work out the probability it is red.
- 3rd December 2009A pie chart shows 45 people. 31 of them chose art. Work out the angle of that sector.
- 4th December 2009A length x is 13.1 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 5th December 2009Simplify 3a + 8b + 8a - 7b.
- 6th December 2009A 800 g bag of oats costs £7.20. Work out the cost per 100 g.
- 7th December 2009Two of the angles in a triangle are 88° and 48°. Work out the third angle.
- 8th December 2009A biased coin lands on heads with probability 0.4. It is thrown 250 times. How many heads would you expect?
- 9th December 2009120 students were asked how they travel. 30 walked, and of those 5 were late. How many walkers were on time?
- 10th December 2009Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(42) lie?
- 11th December 2009A line has equation y = 4x - 24. Write down where it crosses the x-axis and where it crosses the y-axis.
- 12th December 2009£1 is worth 1.24 US dollars. How many US dollars does £500 buy?
- 13th December 2009A goat is tied to a post in an open field by a rope 11 m long. Describe the region of grass it can reach.
- 14th December 2009Kwame has 5 scores with a mean of 19. Scores 15, 14, 19, 24 are known. Work out the missing score.
- 15th December 2009On a bar chart each gridline square stands for 5 people. A bar is 9 squares tall. How many people does it show?
- 16th December 2009Work out 3/5 divided by 1/4. Give your answer in its simplest form.
- 17th December 2009The angles in a triangle are 2x°, 2x° and (x + 55)°. Form an equation and work out x.
- 18th December 2009A recipe for 6 pancakes uses 270 g of flour. How much flour is needed for 20 pancakes?
- 19th December 2009An L-shape is a 15 cm by 12 cm rectangle with a 7 cm by 5 cm rectangle cut out of one corner. Work out its area.
- 20th December 2009The probability that it rains tomorrow is 1/5. Work out the probability that it does not rain.
- 21st December 2009A stem and leaf diagram has a single stem 6 with the leaves 2, 3, 5, 6, 8. Work out the median of the five values.
- 22nd December 2009A length x is 17.8 cm, rounded to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for x.
- 23rd December 2009A rectangle is x cm wide and 8 cm longer than it is wide. Write a simplified expression for its perimeter.
- 24th December 20093 identical pens cost £6.90. Work out the cost of 7 of the same pens.
- 25th December 2009A cuboid measures 4 cm by 8 cm by 4 cm. Work out its total surface area.
- 26th December 2009Using only the digits 4, 5, 8 and no digit twice, how many different two-digit numbers can be made?
- 27th December 2009A pie chart shows 72 items. One sector has an angle of 15°. How many items does it represent?
- 28th December 2009Between which two consecutive whole numbers does sqrt(80) lie?
- 29th December 2009Use v = u + at with u = 15, a = 6 and t = 6. Work out v.
- 30th December 2009A model of a bridge is built to a scale of 1 : 20. The real length is 2 m. How long is the model, in cm?
- 31st December 2009The point (7, 3) is rotated 180° about the origin. Write down the coordinates of the image.