1 A class of 20 children are

1 • A class of 20 children are going swimming. • There must be one adult with every group of 5 children. • Mrs Jones is the class teacher. • How many adults will be needed?

2 • There are 12 apples in each box of apples delivered to Tesco. • Tesco sell their apples in bags of 4 apples. • How many bags will be needed? • Half of the apples are red.

3 • Tom the baker always bakes his cakes on Monday. • For every cake he uses 3 Smarties. • The baker has 15 Smarties left in a box. • How many cakes can the baker finish?

4 • Hazel’s Flower Shop are selling bunches of 6 roses for Mother’s Day. • Hazel has 18 roses left. • The roses cost £ 10 a bunch. • How many more bunches of roses could Hazel make?

5 • Our local flower shop is selling daffodil bulbs in pots of 5 bulbs. • Sandra and Pam are filling the pots with bulbs. • They have a box with 25 bulbs in. • How many pots of daffodils can they make up?

6 • Rebecca wants some 10 cm ribbons for her dolls’ hair styles. • She has a 30 cm roll of ribbon. • How many 10 cm lengths of ribbons can she cut off? • The roll of ribbon is blue.

7 • A baker uses 4 kg of sugar to bake one tray of cakes. • He has 16 kg of sugar left. • How many trays of cakes can he still bake? • The baker’s name is Fred.

8 • Tina’s Toy Shop is selling marbles at 50 p for each bag of 10 marbles. • Tina has been selling toys for years. • The last box of marbles has 60 marbles in it. • How many bags for the marbles will Tina need?

9 • This July our class will be going to Legoland. • Each group of 10 children need to be with an adult. • How many adults will be need? • Our class has 16 girls and 14 boys. • Tickets to Legoland will cost £ 5.

10 • Asda have an offer on sales of bags of crisps. • If you buy 2 bags you get 1 more bag free. • In my shopping trolley I have 12 bags of crisps. • How many do I have to pay for?

11 • • • A box of sweets has toffees and chocolates in it. There are 3 toffees for every 1 chocolate in the box. There are 20 sweets in the box altogether. How many of the sweets are chocolates and how many toffees are there? The box of sweets costs £ 3. 50.

12 • There are 18 children in the school gym club. • For every 2 girls there is 1 boy. • Mr. Harris takes the gym club every Wednesday. • Gym club last for 45 minutes. • How many boys go to the gym club?

13 • A Christmas paper-chain is made of red and blue paper rings. • For every 4 red rings there is 1 blue ring. • The paper-chain is 30 rings long. • How many red and blue rings are there? • The chain has a repeating pattern (red red blue).

14 • A box has a mixture of strawberry and orange chewy sweets. • There are 4 strawberry chews for every 1 orange chew. • In one box there are 25 chewy sweets. • How many of these chewy sweets are orange?

15 • Asda have an offer selling bags of crisps. • If you buy 2 bags you get 1 more bag free. • In my shopping trolley I have 12 bags of crisps. • How many do I have to pay for? • I can choose salt and vinegar, smoky bacon or plain crisps.

16 • At the last school disco we sold 40 tickets altogether. • For every 1 ticket sold to a boy, we sold 3 tickets to girls. • All the children said it was the best school disco they had been to. • How many girls went to the disco? • Mr. Jackson was our DJ for the disco.

17 • Last weekend I spent a lot of my pocket money. • When I opened my money tin this weekend and counted my pocket money I found I had the same number of 5 p coins as I had 2 p coins. • Altogether I found I had 77 p. • How many 5 p coins were there in the tin? • My sister Jane had more than £ 1. 50 in her money tin.