Competition Entry - Fantasy

Competition Entry - Scraplift

Maths - Year 4

Problem Solving

1. Mr Knotsure had 34 oranges. He gave 8 to his son and 10 to his daughter. How many does he have now?


2. I have 3 consecutive numbers. The sum of them is 171. What are the 3 numbers?


3. I travel 3 km each day to get to school and back. a)How far away is my school? b)What is the distance I travel each week if I have to go to school for 5 days?


4. Every hour after 5 pm, my clock goes back 3 minutes. What will be the proper time if my clock says 9:00 pm?


5. For every 1 apple Mary takes Jack takes 6. How many apples would Jack have Mary had 24?


6. Every day Roy has to take 1 pill in the morning, 2 pills at noon and half a pill at night. How many pills would Roy have to take in a week?


7. 4K was going to go on a school excursion to the zoo. The entry fee was $16 per person. If there were 21 people going on the excursion how much must the class pay?


8. I have a shape. I has no points or ends. I has parts like a a radius and circumference. What shape am I?


9. Would a door be 2cm, 2m or 2km?


10. Sara was raising money for her school. All her friends and family lived in different places. Sara's best friend, sister and brother lived in town while Sara lived with her parents. Her best friend gave her $12, her sister gave her $30, her brother gave her $23 and her parents gave her $50. If Sara had to pay a bus fee of $2.50 every time she visited her friend, sister and brother and had to use the money she raised, how much money would Sara have at the end of the day?

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Maths - Year 6

Task: To design a problem solving program for advanced year 6 level

Useful Maths Site

http://www.edhelper.com/math.htm
http://www.edhelper.com/geometry_highschool.htm
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/maths.htm
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
http://www.aaamath.com/

Researched by Clue

Problems: Perimeter

1. If the side of a square is 5 cm what is the perimeter?
2. If the side of a square is 13 cm what is the perimeter?
3. If the diameter of a circle is 5 cm what is the circumference?
4. If the diameter of a circle is 13 cm what is the circumference?
5. If the radius of a circle is 5 cm what is the circumference?
6. If the radius of a circle is 13 cm what is the circumference?

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Cloze Exercise - Grade 4

Review on Matilda. A book by Roald Dahl

Matilda is a great book for ______ in Grade 3-5. It tell the story of a 5 year old girl ______ Matilda. Matilda is a very bright girl. She started talking ________ when she was one year old and could read _______ when she was five. All her parents thought of her was a noisy little _________.

At Matilda's school there is a very mean Headmistress called Miss Trunchbull. She is very ________ and doesn't seem to like children. Then there is Matilda's teacher called Miss Honey who is nice to everyone. This ________ book tells about the wonderful adventures of Matilda what type of special powers she _______.

If you like the ______ of this book go down to your local or school library to read it and be amazed by Matilda.

fluently
readers
violent
gets
named
perfectly
wonderful
chatterbox
sound

Competition Entry - Haiku

Hope this one counts. :)