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.Four locations each record a temperature one winter morning. Which of these temperatures is the coldest?
- 2.3.4 × 10⁵ is written as an ordinary number. Work out this number.
- 3.Which of these is written correctly in standard form?
- 4.A jacket normally costs £65. In a sale it is reduced by 20%, and the shop then takes a further £5 off at the till. Work out the final price.
- 5.The highest common factor of two numbers is 4 and their lowest common multiple is 60. One of the numbers is 20. Work out the other number.
- 6.A student works out the exact area of a circle with radius 4 cm by squaring the radius but forgetting to multiply by π. Work out the correct exact area of the circle, in terms of π.
- 7.Work out 3/8 of 96.
- 8.Simplify 5⁻² × 5⁴, giving your answer as a single power of 5.
- 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.Write down the reciprocal of 0.2
- 11.A digital timer truncates every time to 1 decimal place. It shows a swimmer's time for one length as 12.3 seconds. Using t for the swimmer's actual time in seconds, write down the error interval for t.
- 12.Work out the value of √64.
- 13.A carpenter has a plank of wood 4.8 m long. She cuts off 3 pieces, each 0.9 m long, to make shelves. Work out the length of wood remaining.
- 14.A box holds 140 pens. 25% of the pens are red. Work out how many of the pens are red.
- 15.Simplify x⁷ × x⁴, giving your answer as a single power of x.
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