Printable · GCSE Foundation · ages 14-16
Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation
Fifteen questions across the number statements at Foundation tier. Choose the non-calculator filter to rehearse Paper 1, which counts for a third of the marks.
Number worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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- 1.Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and their scores are added together. By listing the possible totals systematically, work out how many different totals are possible.
- 2.Work out 5 + 3 × (9 − 6)
- 3.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 4.In a choir, 2/9 of the members are boys and the rest are girls. Write down the ratio of girls to boys, in its simplest form.
- 5.Sam rounds 0.070268 to 3 significant figures and writes 0.0703. Which of these statements is correct?
- 6.Postage on a parcel is calculated as £4.60, correct to the nearest 20p. Which of these could not be the actual cost of the postage?
- 7.Jack buys 3 books, each costing £4.25, and pays with a £20 note. Work out how much change he receives.
- 8.A pack contains 20 stickers. Noah gives 1/5 of the pack to his sister. Work out how many stickers he gives away.
- 9.Work out 2 × (−3 + 7)
- 10.A cheetah runs at a steady speed of 25 metres per second. Work out this speed in kilometres per hour.
- 11.Write 5,000,000 in standard form.
- 12.Work out an estimate for 6.4 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number.
- 13.At a book fair the ratio of fiction books to non-fiction books is 4 : 5. Of the non-fiction books, 3/5 are about history. Work out the fraction of all the books at the fair that are history books.
- 14.A minibus can carry 16 passengers. A school is taking 179 pupils on a trip. By rounding 179 to the nearest 10, work out an estimate for the number of minibuses needed, given that the school cannot hire part of a minibus.
- 15.The number 36 can be written as 2² × 3², and the number 84 can be written as 2² × 3 × 7. Work out the highest common factor of 36 and 84.
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