Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. What number is five cubed?

2. A circle has radius r.

KS3 MATHEMATICS What is the formula for the area of the
circle?
10 4 10
Level 7 Questions

3. Jenny and Mark share some money in the

Day 1 ratio two to three. Jenny’s share is one
hundred and ten pounds.
How much is Mark’s share?

4. The net of a triangular prism is made from

triangles and rectangles.
How many of each shape are needed?

5. Multiply minus six by minus two.

Percentage change Coffee

(a) One calculation below gives the answer to the question A cup of coffee costs £1.75

What is 70 increased by 9%? The diagram shows how much money different people get when
you buy a cup of coffee.
Tick ( ) the correct one.

R e ta ile r s g e t 4 4 p
7 0 × 0 .9 7 0 × 1 .9 7 0 × 0 .0 9 7 0 × 1 .0 9
G ro w e rs g e t 5 p
1 mark
C u p o f c o ffe e
Choose one of the other calculations. c o s ts £ 1 .7 5 O th e r s g e t £ 1 .2 6
Write a question about percentages that this calculation represents.

calculation chosen: .......................

question it represents:
N o t d ra w n
1 mark a c c u ra te ly

Now do the same for one of the remaining two calculations.

(a) Complete the table to show what percentage of the cost of a cup
of coffee goes to retailers, growers and others.
calculation chosen: .......................

question it represents: Show your working.

1 mark

(b) Fill in the missing decimal number.

To decrease by 14%, multiply by

1 mark Retailers %

Growers %

Others %

2 marks
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. What is one third of three-quarters of one hundred?

…………….

2. I’m thinking of a number. I call it n.

I square my number and then add 4.
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Write an expression to show the result.

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……………….
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3. Twenty- one out of thirty-six pupils said they
watched Top of the Pops.
Day 2
What angle on a pie chart would show this?

………………
4. There are seven red and three blue balls in a bag.
I am going to take a ball out of the bag at random.
What is the probability that the ball will be blue?

………………..
5. Write a multiple of three that is bigger than one
hundred.

……………..
Powers Squares

(a) Write the values of k and m. Some numbers are smaller than their squares.

For example: 7 < 72

64 = 82 = 4k = 2m
Which numbers are equal to their squares?

k = ............………………..

m = ............……………….
2 marks

(b) Complete the following:

215 = 32 768

2 marks

214 = ...............…………….
1 mark
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. I am thinking of a number. I call it n.

I double my number then I subtract three.
Write an expression to show the result.

2. What percentage of fifty pounds is thirty-five

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pounds?

10 4 10
Level 7 Questions 3. On average, the driest place on earth gets only
nought point five millimetres of rain every year.
Day 3 In total, how much rain would it expect to get in
twenty years?

4. To the nearest whole number, what is the square

root of eighty-three point nine?

5. It takes me one and a half minutes to swim one

length of the pool.
How many lengths can I swim in fifteen minutes
Pentagonal pyramid (c) On these nets, the point marked P lies on the perpendicular
bisector of a side of the pentagon.
The diagram shows the net for a right-pyramid with a regular pentagon as
its base.

The net is constructed using five straight lines. P

P

a
b

On side CD of the regular pentagon below, use

compasses and a straight edge to construct the
perpendicular bisector.
(a) Without measuring, explain why angle a must be 108°
You must leave in your construction lines.

1 mark

(b) Calculate the size of angle b. D

You must show your working.

…………………… ° 2 marks
1 mark
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. Tariq won one hundred pounds in a maths

competition. He gave two-fifths of his prize
money to charity. How much of his prize money,
in pounds, did he have left?

2. What is three point nine divided by two?

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10 4 10 3. The instructions for a fruit drink say to mix one

part blackcurrant juice with four parts water. I
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want to make one litre of this fruit drink. How
much blackcurrant juice should I use? Give your
Day 4
answer in millilitres.

4. What is half of two-thirds?

5. The population of the United Kingdom is about

fifty-nine million. Write this number in figures.
Running machine (a) Between 0930 and 0940, what was her speed in kilometres
per hour?
Kali uses a running machine to keep fit.
………..… km/h 1 mark
The simplified distance-time graph shows how she used the
machine during one run. (b)Throughout the run, for how many minutes did she travel at this
speed?

…………………… minutes 1 mark

(c) At 0940, she increased her speed.

By how many kilometres per hour did she increase her speed?
3

D is ta n c e
(k m ) …………………… km/h 1 mark

(d) On another day, Kali started running at 0935

2
She ran for 24 minutes at a constant speed of 10 kilometres per
hour.

Show this information on the graph on the opposite page.

1
Show any working in the space below.

0930 0940 0950 1000 2 marks

T im e

Use the graph to answer these questions.

 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. What is three-fifths of forty pounds?

2. The longest bone in the human body is in the leg. The

average length of this bone in a man is fifty centimetres. In
a woman it is ten per cent less.
What is the average length of this bone in a woman?
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3. Using three as an approximation for pi, what is the area of a

10 4 10 circle with radius five centimetres?

Level 7 Questions
4. I am thinking of a two-digit number that is a multiple of
Day 5 eight.
The digits add up to six.
What number am I thinking of?

5. I am thinking of a number. I call it n. I add five to my

number.
Write an expression to show the result.
Loci Rearrange
The diagram below shows two points A and B that are 6 cm apart.
The subject of the equation below is p
Around each point are six circles of radius 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm, 5 cm
and 6 cm. Each circle has either A or B as its centre.
p = 2( e + f )

Rearrange the equation to make e the subject.

6 cm
5 cm
4 cm
3 cm
2 cm
B 1 cm

e=
A 2 marks
1 cm
2 cm
3 cm
4 cm
5 cm
6 cm

(a) On the diagram, mark with a cross any points that are 4 cm away
from A and 4 cm away from B.
1 mark

(b) Now draw the locus of all points that are the same distance from A
as they are from B.
1 mark
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. Five percent of a number is 8. What is the number?

2. A fair spinner has eight equal sections with a number on

each section. Five of them are even numbers. Three are
KS3 MATHEMATICS odd numbers.
What is the probability that I spin an even number?
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3. I can make a three-digit number from the digits two,
Level 7 Questions three and four in six different ways.
How many of these three-digit numbers are even?
Day 6
4. What is the volume of a cuboid measuring five
centimetres by six centimetres by seven centimetres?

5. What is the remainder when you divide three hundred

by twenty-nine?
Evens or Odds Factors again
(a) m is an odd number.
(a) Ring the expression below that is the same as y2 + 8y
Which of the numbers below must be even, and which must be + 12
odd?

Write ‘odd’ or ‘even’ under each one.

(y + 3) (y + 4) (y + 7) (y + 1)

2m m 2 3m – 1 (m – 1 )(m + 1 )
(y + 2) (y + 6)

2 marks (y + 1) (y + 12) (y + 3) (y + 5)
(b) m is an odd number.

m 1
Is the number odd, or even, or is it not possible 1 mark
2
to tell?
(b) Multiply out the expression (y + 9) (y + 2)
Tick ( ) the correct box.
Write your answer as simply as possible.

odd even n o t p o s s ib le t o t e ll

Explain your answer.

1 mark

2 marks
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. Twenty-five per cent of a number is seven.

What is the number?

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2. There are fourteen girls and thirteen boys in a class.
What is the probability that a pupil chosen at random
10 4 10 will be a girl?

Level 7 Questions

Day 7 3. The first even number is two.

What is the hundredth even number?

4. The mean of two numbers is 8. One of the numbers is

two. What is the other number?

5. How many edges are there on a square based pyramid?

Angles
This pattern has rotation symmetry of order 6
Television

(a) What is the size of angle w? A headteacher wants to choose a pupil from year 7, 8 or 9 to
appear on television.
Show your working.
The headteacher gives each pupil one ticket.

y Then she will select the winning ticket at random.

The table shows information about the ticket used.

26°
w
C o lo u r o f N u m b e rs
th e t ic k e t used

Year 7 re d 1 to 8 0

Year 8 b lu e 1 to 7 5

Year 9 y e llo w 1 to 9 0

N o t d ra w n (a) What is the probability that the winning ticket will be blue?
a c c u r a t e ly

.................................... 

2 marks

(b) Each quadrilateral in the pattern is made from 1 mark

two congruent isosceles triangles.
(b) What is the probability that the winning ticket will show number 39?
What is the size of angle y ? Show your working

1 mark

(c) The headteacher selects the winning ticket at random.

y She says:

‘The winning ticket number is 39’.

13°
What is the probability that this winning ticket is blue?

N o t d ra w n 1 mark
a c c u r a t e ly …………… 2 marks
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. Multiply 8.7 by 2

2. A bat flies at an average speed of 32 kilometres an hour.

KS3 MATHEMATICS
At this speed, how far will it fly in 15 minutes?

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Level 7 Questions
3. Multiply the brackets (2x +1) (x – 1)
Day 8

4. I’m thinking of a number. I call it t. I half it and subtract

five. Write an expression to show the result.

5. The first odd number is 1. What is the hundredth odd

number?
Owls Rectangle rest
Owls eat small mammals.
They regurgitate the bones and fur in balls called pellets.
The diagram shows a rectangle that just touches an equilateral triangle.
The table shows the contents of 62 pellets from long-eared owls.
N o t d ra w n
a c c u r a te ly
Number of mammals
1 2 3 4 5 6 x
found in the pellet

Frequency 9 17 24 6 5 1

20º
s t r a ig h t lin e

(a) Show that the total number of mammals found is 170 (a) Find the size of the angle marked x
Show your working.

......................°
2 marks
1 mark
(b) Now the rectangle just touches the
equilateral triangle so that
(b) Calculate the mean number of mammals found in each pellet. ABC is a straight line.
Show your working and give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
A
N o t d ra w n
.............................
a c c u r a t e ly
2 marks

(c) There are about 10 000 long-eared owls in Britain. B

On average, a long-eared owl regurgitates 1.4 pellets per day.

Altogether, how many mammals do the 10 000 long-eared owls

eat in one day?
Show your working and give your answer to the nearest thousand.
D E C

.............................2 marks Show that triangle BDE is isosceles.

2 marks
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. Add four to minus five.

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2. What number should you add to minus three to
get the answer five?
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Level 7 Questions

Day 9
3. How many nought point fives are there in ten?

4. On average, the driest place on earth gets only

nought point five millimetres of rain every year.
In total, how much rain would it expect to get in
twenty years?

5. What is the sum of the angles in a rhombus?

True or false Giraffe
(a) Pupils started to solve the equation 6x + 8 = 4 x + 11 in different ways.
A book gives this information:
For each statement below, tick ( ) True or False.
A baby giraffe was born that was 1.58 metres high.
It grew at a rate of 1.3 centimetres every hour.
6 x + 8 = 4 x + 11 6 x + 8 = 4 x + 11
so 14x = 15x so 6 x + 4 x = 11 + 8

Suppose the baby giraffe continued to grow at this rate.

T ru e F a ls e T ru e F a ls e
About how many days old would it be when it was 6 metres high?
Show your working.

6 x + 8 = 4 x + 11 6x + 8 = 4x + 11
so 6x = 4x + 3 so 2 x + 8 = 11

T ru e F a ls e T ru e F a ls e

6 x + 8 = 4 x + 11 6 x + 8 = 4x + 11
so 2x = 3 so –3 = –2x

............................. days old

T ru e F a ls e T ru e F a ls e 3 marks

3 marks

(b) A different pupil used trial and improvement to solve

the equation 6x + 8 = 4x + 11

Explain why trial and improvement is not a good method to use.

1 mark
 Mental Arithmetic Questions

1. It takes some-one one and a half minutes to

swim the length of the pool. How many lengths
KS3 MATHEMATICS can I swim in 15 minutes?

10 4 10
2. Multiply minus eight by minus three.
Level 7 Questions

Day 10
3. If 4x + 3 = 23, what is the value of x?

4. I have a fair eight sided dice numbered 12 to

19. What is the probability that I will throw a
prime number?

5. What must I multiply n squared by to get n

cubed?
Rodents
(d) An animal has a body length of 228 mm, and foot length of 22 mm.
The scatter graph shows the average body length and average foot length
of different species of rodents. Is this animal likely to be one of these species of rodents?

Tick ( ) Yes or No.

50
Yes No

40
Explain your answer.

30
Foot
le n g th
(m m )
20

10
1 mark

0 Centenarians
100 150 200 250
B o d y le n g t h People who live to be 100 years old are called centenarians.
(m m )
In 1998 there were 135 000 centenarians.
(a) What does the scatter graph tell you about the type of correlation The ratio of male to female was 1 : 4
between the body length and foot length for these rodents?
How many female centenarians were there in 1998?
Show your working.
1 mark

(b) Draw a line of best fit on the scatter graph.

1 mark

(c) If body length increased by 50 mm, by approximately how many

millimetres would you expect foot length to increase?

Ring the correct value below.

........
2 7 15 50 2 marks
1 mark