Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation

1.Which of these units would be most appropriate to use when stating the mass of a small car?

2.Work out the value of √64.

3.Work out 3 + 4 × 2²

4.A pack contains 20 stickers. Noah gives 1/5 of the pack to his sister. Work out how many stickers he gives away.

5.Write down the decimal that is equal to 3/5.

6.Write the fraction 47/50 as a decimal.

7.Priya has 24 red beads and 36 blue beads. She makes identical bracelets, using every bead and with none left over. Work out the greatest number of bracelets she can make.

8.Find the missing number: ▢ ÷ 15 = 24

9.A garden path is measured by Jon as 12 m, correct to the nearest metre, and by Mia as 12.6 m, correct to the nearest 0.1 m. Which statement about the two measurements is correct?

10.Chloe wants to work out 3 1/4 − 1 2/3. She converts both mixed numbers to twelfths, then subtracts the whole numbers and the fraction parts separately, without checking whether she needs to exchange first. Work out the correct value of 3 1/4 − 1 2/3, giving your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.

11.A charity trek covers 830 miles over roughly 19 days. By rounding each number to 1 significant figure, work out an estimate for the number of miles walked per day.

12.Work out −(−3)⁴ + (−3)³

13.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: 3/10 ___ 0.3

14.A number is divided by 5, then 6 is subtracted, giving the result −1. Work out the number.

15.A bag holds 5 different sweets. Noah takes 2 of the sweets out of the bag together, so the order in which he takes them does not matter. Work out how many different pairs of sweets he could take.