Problem Solving

A good knowledge of metric measures is needed to complete these questions.

Here are some longer problems written in words. You need to work out more than one thing to get the answers.

Questions which need an understanding of a.m., p.m., 24 hour clock, leap years as well as using graphs.

A perimeter/area investigation.

Quite tricky word problems involving money, often requiring several steps to complete.

Find the cost of different numbers of houseplants.

An atlas with time zones is needed for the first activity and there are line graphs on time to interpret.

Here are sets of word problems only needing one step to solve, but it is not always obvious what calculation to carry out to reach the answer.