Chocolate

There are three tables in a room with blocks of chocolate on each. Where would be the best place for each child in the class to sit if they came in one at a time?

Zios and Zepts

On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?

Fractions in a Box

The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each disc. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.

What Distance?

Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

Here are the distances (as the crow flies) in km from London to various cities in the world:

Abu Dhabi 5480 Barcelona 1139 Cape Town 9680

Delhi 6718 Edmonton 6805 Florence 1209

Gothenburg 1039 Houston 7812 Istanbul 2501

Jerusalem 3611 Karachi 6314 Lauceston 17425

Challenge 1

If someone took you the first 1000km how much further would you have to go for each of the twelve journeys?

Now create some similar questions of your own.

Challenge 2

If you started at Copenhagen then went to London, which is about 1000 km away each time for all of the journeys shown above, how far would you have travelled in each case?

Acknowledgement for maps and information:- https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between-london_-uk-and-Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.htm