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.A shop assistant says that 7.2 × 3.9 = 56.16. Work out an estimate for 7.2 × 3.9, by rounding each number to the nearest whole number, to show that the assistant’s answer cannot be correct.
- 2.A pair of trainers is priced at £80 online. The shop takes 25% off the price and then adds £10 for next-day delivery. Work out the total cost.
- 3.Work out an estimate for 113 + 491, by rounding each number to the nearest 100.
- 4.Put these numbers in order, starting with the smallest: 3.2 × 10⁴, 2.9 × 10⁵, 4.1 × 10³
- 5.Write 0.0038 in standard form.
- 6.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.
- 7.Work out the value of √64.
- 8.Work out 10% of 30% of £200.
- 9.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −2/3 ___ −5/6
- 10.A country has an area of 25,000,000 hectares. Write this area in standard form.
- 11.Write down the symbol that makes this statement true: −9 ___ −4
- 12.In a fruit basket the ratio of bananas to oranges is 2 : 5. What fraction of the fruit are oranges?
- 13.A jumper is reduced by 15% in a sale to a price of £42.50. Work out the original price.
- 14.Write 60 as a product of its prime factors, using index notation.
- 15.The rainfall in a town during April is recorded as 62.4 mm, correct to 1 decimal place. Write down the error interval for the actual rainfall, r mm.
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