Maths Trail

Upper KS2

By Kim MarshallGroup 1

Shape - Tessellation Draw and name the different

shapes you can see on this house?

Which shape do you think is the most common?

Explain your reasoning.

Which shapes tessellate?

Which shapes do not tessellate?

Explain your reasoning.

Division Three friends work in this library.

Friend A works twice as many hours as friend B, and friend B works twice as many hours as friend C. They all receive the same rate of pay.

How many hours does each friend work?

Show your answer in hours and minutes.

If friend B earns £60.04 a week. How much an hour do they all earn? How much does friend A and C

earn?

Percentage This shoe shop has a total of 288 pairs of

shoes; 48 are yellow, 144 are red and 96 are green.

What percentage of the total are green? What percentage of the total are yellow?

What percentage of the total are red?

Today the shop sold 72 pairs of shoes, what

percentage of the total is this?

Addition, division, multiplication and

subtraction There are 256 children in the school and 64

adults. Everyone is going on a coach trip to the woods for a nature trail. The coaches hold 72 people plus the driver.

How many coaches will we need? How many seats will be empty? Calculate how many more coaches we would

need if both parents joined their child on the trip.

This bridge is 1¹∕₄ miles long. If you were walking 5 miles an hour how long would it take you to reach the other end?

Multiplication, subtraction and

fractions

If this tree has 12 large branches with 7 smaller branches coming off each one, consisting of 52 leaves. How many leaves would there be altogether?

If 546 leaves have fallen off the tree, how many leaves are left on the tree?

What fraction of leaves are on the floor?

How many leaves would be on the floor if ⁴∕₆ had fallen?

Change the fraction above into it’s simplest

form.