Amelia has 12 red pens and 8 blue pens. She buys 3 more packs of red pens with 4 pens in each pack. How many pens does she have now?
(2)
4
Complete the missing number: 70 - ? = 28
(1)
5
The bus leaves at 09:15 and the journey takes 1 hour 25 minutes. What time does the bus arrive?
(2)
6
Work out 6 x 4.
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7
Yusuf shares 18 stickers equally between 3 friends. How many stickers does each friend get? Show your method.
(2)
8
What is 1/4 of 28?
(1)
9
Oliwia buys a sandwich for 95p and a drink for 60p. She pays with a £2 coin. How much change should she get?
(2)
10
A rope is 1 m 25 cm long and another rope is 75 cm long. What is their total length in centimetres?
(2)
11
Here are two numbers: 204 and 240. Explain which number is greater and say why using place value language.
(2)
12
A teacher puts 24 counters into 6 equal groups to make classroom games. After that she makes 4 piles of counters with the same number in each pile using all the counters. How many counters are in each of the 4 piles?
(3)
13
Complete the pattern: 5, 10, 15, ?, 25
(1)
14
A bottle holds 1 litre of water. How many millilitres are in 1 litre and 250 millilitres?
(2)
15
A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 4 cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
(2)
16
A small chart shows how many books each child read last week: Amy 3, Ben 5, Chi 2, Dev 5. Explain how many more books Ben read than Chi and show your working.
(2)
17
There are 45 children in three classes. Each class has the same number of children. How many children are in each class? Then one child moves schools, so one class now has one fewer child. How many children are in that class now?
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18
Stretch question. Priya has three boxes. Each box holds 8 toy cars. She wants to share all the toy cars equally between 5 children. What is the maximum whole number of cars each child can get and how many cars will be left over? Show your working.
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Mark scheme · KS2.M-Y3R1 Reasoning and Problem Solving
Question 1
B1 172 cao
Answer: 172
Question 2
B1 213 cao
Answer: 213
Question 3
M1 Correct method seen: 3 x 4 = 12 or equivalent
B1 32 pens cao
Answer: 32
Question 4
B1 42 cao
Answer: 42
Question 5
M1 Correct addition of hours and minutes, e.g. 09:15 + 1:25 shown
B1 10:40 cao
Answer: 10:40
Question 6
B1 24 cao
Answer: 24
Question 7
M1 Correct division or grouping shown, e.g. 18 ÷ 3 = 6 or 3 groups of 6
B1 6 cao
Answer: 6
Question 8
B1 7 cao
Answer: 7
Question 9
M1 Correct total cost calculated, e.g. 95p + 60p = 155p or £1.55
B1 45p cao
Answer: 45p
Question 10
M1 Correct conversion of 1 m 25 cm to 125 cm and addition shown
B1 200 cm cao
Answer: 200 cm
Question 11
M1 Mention of hundreds, tens or ones to compare, e.g. both have 2 hundreds but 240 has more tens
B1 Correct conclusion that 240 is greater (240 > 204) cao
Answer: 240
Question 12
M1 Recognise initial grouping gives 24 counters (24 = 6 x 4) or equivalent
M1 Correct division to change grouping, e.g. 24 ÷ 4 shown
B1 6 cao
Answer: 6
Question 13
B1 20 cao
Answer: 20
Question 14
M1 Correct conversion of 1 litre to 1000 ml and addition shown
B1 1250 ml cao
Answer: 1250 ml
Question 15
M1 Correct addition or method shown, e.g. 2 x (9 + 4) or 9 + 9 + 4 + 4
B1 26 cm cao
Answer: 26 cm
Question 16
M1 Correct subtraction shown, e.g. 5 - 2 = 3 or equivalent reasoning