• The Numeracy Challenge is a weekly challenge that is offered to all pupils in Saint Bede’s

• They vary in difficulty but are meant to be accessible to all pupils.

• The aim of the Numeracy Challenge is to draw on the different Maths skills pupils are developing and learning.

Your Numeracy Challenge;

• Before September complete as many of the challenges as you can.

• When you start Saint Bede’s submit your work to Mr Binns, he will award you points for each challenge you have attempted and further points for solving each challenge correctly.

• Those with the highest number of points will receive Being a Bede rewards.

Pupils in Mr Binns’ Mathematics class went far and wide during the summer holidays in 2014. The furthest someone travelled was 5520 miles to Puerta Vallerta in Mexico. The shortest someone travelled was 40 miles to the Westmorland Show. How many times would you have to go to Westmorland and back to go the same distance as travelling to Puerta Vallerta?

Tony the Tiger is considering a special deal on his 500g packets of Frosties. Which is the best deal?

How many different ways are there to position the two orange squares in the 3 x 3 grid?

The picture is of a bathroom wall in the shape of a rectangle. The wall is to be painted.

The paint is sold in 1 litre cans, costing £3.65 each. 1 litre covers 12 square metres. How much will it cost to paint?

The following two way table gives information about types of housing on a new housing estate.

Which type of house was the most common on the estate?

Detached Semi detached Terraced Total

2 bedrooms 4 4 16

3 bedrooms 3 4

4 bedrooms 1 1 4

Total 9 8 30

Find the sum of all the orange angles

Mr Langley joins the gym to improve his fitness. His instructor gives him a pie chart showing the proportion of time he should spend on three types of exercise.

When Mr Langley goes to the

gym and spends 2 hours

exercising, approximately how

long should he spend on each

type of exercise?

Exercise Type

Flexibility Aerobic

Anaerobic

It takes 3 tractors 6 hours to plough 24 hectares of land. How long will it take if next year they have bought an extra brand new shiny tractor to plough the land?

The following is a plan of a tiger enclosure at a zoo. There is a tiger at A, and another tiger somewhere between B and C. The zoo keeper is safe if he stands 5 metres away from a tiger. Which region can he safely stand in?

Divide the following numbers by 11. Convert each of your answers to a letter and make a word. (1=A, 2=B…)

Below are six diagrams of quadrilaterals. What is the name of the only quadrilateral that is missing?

Below is the numbers round from a recent game of countdown. You must use all the numbers to find the answer!

Emily has 𝑥 presents. Patrick has 4 more presents than Emily. Ellie has a third of the presents that Patrick has. All together there are 24 presents between them. Find the amount of presents that Ellie has.

Father Christmas is delivering cards to a street with numbers from 1 to 50. The price for each card is the same as the house number, so it would cost 9p for house 9. Unfortunately, his elves have only got 3p and 5p stamps, so can only make the money up using those stamps. So for example, house 8 will get a card as 8p can be made using one 3p stamp and one 5p stamp. Find out which houses won’t be getting a Christmas card from Father Christmas.

How many seconds are there in the year 2021?

Mr Binns is going to take his family to the zoo.

Mr Binns wants to buy tickets for two adults and three children aged 1, 3 and 9.

Mr Binns pays with three £20 notes.

How much change should he get?

Ticket Prices (per person)

Adult £16.50

Child (4-14) £13.50

Child (under 4) free

Mr Binns is reading a menu at an expensive café.

He is going to choose one Main Course and one Dessert. One possible outcome is Steak and Ice Cream. How many different combinations can he choose?

Main Course Dessert

Steak Ice Cream

Lamb Cheese and Biscuits

Chicken Chocolate Fudge Cake

The diagram shows a rectangular path around a lawn. The path is 1m wide.

Gravel costs £124 per tonne.

1 tonne of gravel covers 15m2.

Work out the cost of covering the path with gravel.

How many rectangles can you find in the following shape?

Use each number from 1 to 12 once. Make sure all the sides of the triangle add up to 30