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November 1965 5-a-day

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November 1965

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

Every sheet in November 1965

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

  1. 1st November 1965Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
  2. 2nd November 1965Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
  3. 3rd November 1965Write 0.00042 in standard form.
  4. 4th November 1965A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
  5. 5th November 1965p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
  6. 6th November 1965The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
  7. 7th November 1965A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
  8. 8th November 1965A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
  9. 9th November 1965Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
  10. 10th November 1965A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
  11. 11th November 1965State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
  12. 12th November 1965A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
  13. 13th November 1965In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
  14. 14th November 1965A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
  15. 15th November 1965Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
  16. 16th November 1965A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
  17. 17th November 1965A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
  18. 18th November 1965Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
  19. 19th November 1965Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
  20. 20th November 1965A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
  21. 21st November 1965A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
  22. 22nd November 1965A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
  23. 23rd November 1965Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
  24. 24th November 1965A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
  25. 25th November 1965An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
  26. 26th November 1965Work out -4 - 7.
  27. 27th November 1965Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
  28. 28th November 1965Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
  29. 29th November 1965A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
  30. 30th November 1965Calculate 56 + 29.