Being resourceful

My local DIY shop calculates the price of its windows according to the area of glass and the length of frame used. Can you work out how they arrived at these prices?

Try adding fractions using A4 paper.

Can you compare these bars with each other and express their lengths as fractions of the black bar?

What fraction of the black bar are the other bars? Have a go at this challenging task!

There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

Use the interactivity to move Pat. Can you reproduce the graphs and tell their story?

How many people were going to St Ives?

During the third hour after midnight the hands on a clock point in the same direction (so one hand is over the top of the other). At what time, to the nearest second, does this happen?

Use 4 four times in a calculation. What answers can you get?

Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 18 cm can be fitted together to form a rectangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?