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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Perimeter investigation
How many four-sided shapes with a perimeter of 24cm can you create on the squared paper?
Perimeter explained
Imagine an ant crawling around the outside of a shape. The distance the ant walks is the shape’s perimeter. Perimeter is usually measured in centimetres and metres. Can you work out the answers to these perimeter questions?
Pairs of fractions that total one
Can you cut out these cards and match them up so that each pair of fractions total one?
Number sentences totalling 100 and 200
Look at these number sentences. What digits need to go in the gaps? Remember when adding two numbers totalling 100, the tens numbers have to add up to 90 and the units have to add up
to 10.
to 10.
Mystery 3D shape net
A net is an arrangement of 2D shapes, joined edge to edge, that make a 3D shape when folded up. What 3D shape do you think this net will make?
Multiplying with the partitioning method
When multiplying a two-digit number by a one-digit number, use your partitioning skills to split up the two-digit number and multiply each digit in turn. It works in exactly the same way as the grid method… just without the grid! Use this method to multiply these numbers.
Multiplying by 100
When you multiply a number by 100, use your place value skills to slide the digits two places to the left, then put two zeros in before the decimal point. Cut out these number cards. Each green number is an orange number multiplied by a hundred. Can you match them into their correct pairs?
Multiples of 5 investigation
Carol, Robert, Faye and Daniel all have collections of monster cards. Can you work out how many monster cards each person has from the information given?
Mixed numbers on a number line
Cut out these fraction cards. Can you work out where they should go on the number line below?
Line symmetry
Something is symmetrical when both sides of it are the same when cut in half. The line down the middle of a symmetrical shape is called the line of symmetry or a mirror line. Can you draw the other half of each shape using reflectional symmetry? Use a mirror to check your work!
Length problems challenge
To help you with these length calculations, change metres into centimetres and trying drawing the answers.
Incomplete multiplications
What numbers need to go in these stars so that the number sentences are correct? Think of any number to put in the gap. For example, if you put 3 in the first number sentence, you then need to multiply 3 by 10 and then multiply 3 by 8. You need to add these two numbers together. If this does not make the total given, you need to adjust the number up or down until you get that answer.
Horizontal and vertical lines
Horizontal lines are lines that go across. Vertical lines are lines that go up and down. How many horizontal lines does this shape have? How many vertical lines does it have? How many right angles does it have? Can you explain what a right angle is? Remember that the corner of a sheet of paper or book is a right angle.
Halving investigation
If you take any three-digit number ending in two zeros and keep halving it, you will eventually end up with a number that ends in 5. Do you think this is true? Test this out using this table to record your findings. Test every number possible.
Fractions of quantities
I have 16 bananas. I give ¾ of them away. How many have I given away? When working out fractions of amounts, divide the number by the fraction denominator (bottom number) then multiply it by the fraction numerator (top number). Can you use this method to work out the rest of these fractions?
Fractions and money
Her are some facts. Use them to help you work out these money problems. You'll need to use your fractions skills too.
Estimating and checking calculations
Susie has worked out answers to these calculations. Have a look through and estimate what you think the answer should be. Don’t spend ages working out the exact answer! Give Susie a tick if you think she is right or a cross if you think she is wrong. In the last column, explain why she is right or wrong. Afterwards, use a calculator to check whether Susie’s answers were right or not.
Drawing shapes: angles and sides
Can you draw these shapes: a shape that has 2 right angles and five sides; a six-sided shape that has a line of symmetry; an oblong – make one set of sides double the length of the other.
Doubling two-digit and three-digit numbers
When doubling a number, trying doubling each digit in turn and then adding them together. Use this method to double each of these numbers.
Dividing by 10
When you divide a number by 10, use your place value skills to slide the digits one place to the right. Can you divide each of these numbers by ten?