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Class 4 are taking strawberries as a healthy snack on their trip to the museum. There are 32 children in the class. Each child will be given 4 strawberries.

At the Twinkl café, every meal is served with a choice of vegetables. Diners can pick any 2 vegetables from the following list:

Marie uses the plate diagram below to help her choose healthy foods for a balanced diet.

Marie says, “Fruit and vegetables and beans and pulses cover one half of the plate.”• Do you agree with

Marie’s answer?

• Can you explain your answers with reasoning?

• Estimate what fraction of the plate is made up of fruit and vegetables.

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• How many different combinations of 2 servings can be chosen?

• How can you be sure you have all the combinations?

• What if a double portion of one vegetable is allowed?

• How many combinations are there now?

• How many strawberries are needed?

• How can you work this out?

Strawberries are sold in punnets with 12 strawberries in each punnet. • How many punnets will be needed?

Check your method with a friend. Can you explain your working out?

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Anas says, “The dining hall is about the same length as 30 bananas.”

Anas has rounded his answer to the nearest 10 bananas.• What is the longest length that the hall could

be when measured in whole bananas?

• What is the shortest length that the hall could be?

• If five bananas are 1m long, what is the shortest possible length of the hall in metres?

Grace has picked some plums. She has less than 50 in total. She sorts them into bags of 5 and has 4 left over. She sorts them into boxes of 6 and has none left over.• How many plums has she picked?

• What could you use to help you?

• Check your method with a friend. Can you explain your working out?

A basket of fruit costs £4. The Twinkl fruit shop sells 32 fruit baskets on Thursday and 20 baskets on Friday.• How much money does the shop take in total?

One apple has a mass of 100g.

Amena uses a balance to compare the mass of a cauliflower with the mass of some apples.

Amena says, “I think the cauliflower has a mass of approximately 250g.” Is she correct?• Explain your reasons to a partner. • How could Amena check her estimate?

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Class 3 have all brought healthy snacks for breaktime. 15 of the class have brought bananas. 2

5 of the class have brought pears. The rest have brought apples. • If 12 children have brought pears, how

many have brought bananas?

• How many children have brought apples?

• How many children are there in Class 3 altogether?

Jenna has a reusable water bottle. The bottle holds 200ml of water. She fills it 6 times during the day.

• If she drinks all the water in the bottle every time, how much water does she drink?

• How many litres of water does she drink?

• Jenna has been advised to drink 1.5 litres of water per day. Is she drinking enough?

A bag of pasta has a mass of 1kg. The instructions suggest serving 125g of pasta for 2 people.

Ten people order pasta for dinner. • Is there enough pasta in one bag?

• What will you need to do to work this out?

• How much pasta will be left remaining?

• How many more people would this serve?

One grape has a mass of about 5 grams. Adil buys a bunch of grapes with a mass of 370g. • Approximately, how many grapes might the bunch contain?

• What do you need to do to calculate the answer?

• Compare your method to a friend’s. What is the same? What is different?

• Adil counts the grapes and finds he has 70 grapes. He says, “The grapes in this bunch must have a mass of less than 5 grams as I have less grapes than I expected.” Is he correct? Explain your reasons. 1kg

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Healthy Eating Maths Mastery Challenge Cards Answers1Class 4 are taking strawberries as a healthy snack on their trip to the museum. There are 32 children in the class. Each child will be given 4 strawberries.

How many strawberries are needed? 128

Strawberries are sold in punnets with 12 strawberries in each punnet.

How many punnets will be needed? 11

2At the Twinkl café, every meal is served with a choice of vegetables. How many different combinations of 2 servings can be chosen?

6: broccoli and carrots, broccoli and peas, broccoli and sweetcorn, carrots and peas, carrots and sweetcorn, peas and sweetcorn

What if a double portion of one vegetable is allowed? How many combinations are there now?

10, 4 additional combinations of double broccoli, double carrots, double peas and double sweetcorn.

3Marie uses the plate diagram below to help her choose healthy foods for a balanced diet.

Marie is incorrect because fruit and vegetables and beans and pulses cover just over half of the plate. Accept any suitable estimate, such as 1

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4Anas says, “The dining hall is about the same length as 30 bananas.”

Anas has rounded his answer to the nearest 10 bananas.

What is the longest length that the hall could be when measured in whole bananas? 34

What is the shortest length that the hall could be? 25

If five bananas are 1m long, what is the shortest possible length of the hall in metres? 5m

5Grace has picked some plums. She has less than 50 in total.

She sorts them into bags of 5 and has 4 left over.

She sorts them into boxes of 6 and has none left over.

How many plums has she picked? 24

What could you use to help you?

6A basket of fruit costs £4.

The Twinkl fruit shop sells 32 fruit baskets on Thursday and 20 baskets on Friday.

How much money does the shop take in total? £208

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7One apple has a mass of 100g.

Amena uses a balance to compare the mass of a cauliflower with the mass of some apples.

Amena says, “I think the cauliflower has a mass of approximately 250g.” Is she correct? Yes

Explain your reasons to a partner. It is more than 200g, but it less than 300g.

How could Amena check her estimate? She could use two and a half apples.

8Class 3 have all brought healthy snacks for breaktime.15 of the class have brought bananas. 2

5 of the class have brought pears. The rest have brought apples.

If 12 children have brought pears, how many have brought bananas? 6

How many children have brought apples? 12

How many children are there in Class 3 altogether? 30

9Jenna has a reusable water bottle. The bottle holds 200ml of water. She fills it 6 times during the day.

If she drinks all the water in the bottle every time, how much water does she drink? 1200ml

How many litres of water does she drink? 1.2l

Jenna has been advised to drink 1.5 litres of water per day. Is she drinking enough? No, she needs to drink 300ml more per day.

10A bag of pasta has a mass of 1kg. The instructions suggest serving 125g of pasta for 2 people.

Ten people order pasta for dinner. Is there enough pasta in one bag? Yes. 10 people will need 625g of pasta.

What will you need to do to work this out?

How much pasta will be left remaining? 375g

How many more people would this serve? 6

11One grape has a mass of about 5 grams. Adil buys a bunch of grapes with a mass of 370g.

Approximately, how many grapes might the bunch contain? 74

Compare your method to a friend’s. What is the same? What is different?

Adil counts the grapes and finds he has 70 grapes. He says, “The grapes in this bunch must have a mass of less than 5 grams as I have less grapes than I expected.” Is he correct? Explain your reasons.

He is not correct. He has less grapes, so each grape must have a higher mass than he expected.

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