Sunday 18 December 2016

Daily Bread 6 and Answer to Daily Bread 5

Dear All,
Hope you have a good rest. Do check your answer for Daily Bread 5.

Answers to Daily Bread 5
  (1)  $63.80
 (2)   2 : 3
 (3)  480
 (4)  58 rows.


Hope you got all the 4 questions correct:))

Daily Bread 6 

1.   David gives 1/4 of his salary to his parents. What percentage of his salary has he left?

2. Find the value of  3/4 ÷ 8/9 .  Express your answer as a proper fraction in its simplest        form.  


3. If 10 similar buns cost $p, how much does a bun cost?

4. Find the value of 50m / 4 when m = 2

5.  At a party, 2/5 of the people were adults.  1/3 of the children were boys and there were   18 more girls than boys.  How many people were at the party?


Love you,
 Mrs Mak





 

Friday 2 December 2016

Daily Bread 5

Answer for Daily Bread 4

1.  57.5 kg
2.  300
3.  $15
4.  1068
5.  39 litres


Dear all,
 Remember to show your workings. For Daily Bread 5, please draw your models to show your workings.

I will stop at Daily Bread 5 for now.  The next post will be from 19 Dec 2016.
 Hope you had completed all the four daily breads and gotten them all correct. If not, please check what was the mistake(s) made.  Remember, give yourself a second chance to get the questions right, Don't give yourself a "Death" sentence. You know what I meant.....


Daily Bread 5

1.  Liz and Dennis shared some money equally.  After Liz and Dennis had 
     spent $17.80 and $54.60 respectively, Liz had five times as much money 
     as Dennis.  How much did Liz have at first? 

2.In a farm there were 45 ducks and goats.  There was a total of 126 legs
 among the ducks and goats.  What is the ratio of the number goats to the number of ducks?


3. A shopkeeper had some flour.  He sold  1/5 of it on Monday,  
    7/12 of the remainder on Tuesday.  Then he bought another 320 kg 
    of flour and he had the same amount of flour at first.  How much flour had he at first? 

4. In a concert hall, the chairs were arranged such that in each row there
     were exactly 12 chairs.  For a particular concert 6 chairs were added and 
     the chairs were rearranged to 9 chairs in each row.  As such, the number of
     rows was increased by 15 rows.  How many rows of chairs were there in
     the end?

Love you,
Mrs Mak


Tuesday 29 November 2016

Daily Bread 4

Answers to Daily Bread 3

1.  37.5 cm
2.  30
3.  9 : 7
4.  $101.50
5.  700


How?  All 5 Questions correct? Now proceed to Daily Bread 4.


Daily Bread 4

1. The total mass of 6 boys is 345 kg.  What is the mass of 1 boy if each
    of their masses is the same?

2. Lily had chocolate and butter cookies.  The ratio of the number of chocolate cookies
    to the number of butter cookies is 5 : 7.  If she has 175 butter cookies, how many 
    cookies has she at first?

3. Husna bought some honey at $2.40 per 100 g.  If she bought 5/8 kg of honey, 
    how much must she pay for it?

4. Nadiah has some Singapore stamps and some foreign stamps. 7/12 of her stamps 
    are Singapore stamps.  If she has 178 more Singapore stamps than foreign stamps, 
    how many stamps has she in total?

5.  To make an orange drink, Mrs Teo needs to mix water with orange cordial in the 
      ratio of 3 : 1.  How much water does she need to make 52 litres of orange drink? 



Love you,
Mrs Mak

Daily Bread 3

Dear all,
It's been quite a while since the last post.  Let's continue with our third Daily Bread.

I hope the first two were well done:))

Answer for Daily Bread 2

1.  (3k + 5)
2.  11
3.  21
4.  4p
5.  (45 + k)  or ( k + 45)


Remember to have the brackets .



Daily Bread 3

1.John had 150 cm of string.  He divided it into 4 equal parts.  What is the length of 1 part?


2. In a fruit shop, the ratio of the number of apples to the number of oranges was 1 : 2.  
     If there was a total of 45 fruits, how many oranges were there in the shop?


3. In a school bus, there were 64 pupils.  If there were 36 boys, what was the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls?


4. Find the cost of 35 kg of beans if the cost of 5 kg of the same beans is $14.50.


5.  Mr Ng gave 3/5 of his money that he received to his wife and he saved the rest.  
     If he had $1750, how much money did he save?


Love you,
Mrs Mak

Thursday 17 November 2016

Answer for Year End Daily Bread 1 N Daily Bread 2

Answer for Year End Daily Bread 1

Dear all,
Please check your answers to your first Daily Bread.

(1)  320.06
(2) 81
(3) 252
(4) 48
(5) 25
(6) 56


Hope that you have gotten all of them correct.

Now go on to your Daily Bread 2.


Daily Bread 2

1.  What is the value of 6k + 2 – 3k + 3?

2.  Find the value of (6y + 8) when y = 6.
                                     4

3.  Evaluate  (32 – 5 x 4) + 27 ÷ 3

4. The cost of 10 pens was $5p.  What is the cost of 8 such pens?

(Give your answer in terms of p)


5. Ali had 60 cards.  He bought k numbers of cards more.  
   He then gave 15 of the cards away.  How many cards had he left?


Happy Solving...


Love you all,
Mrs Mak



Sunday 13 November 2016

Year end 2016 Daily Bread

Year end   2016 Daily Bread 1

Dear all,
Let's start our Daily bread for year end 2016 to prepare ourselves for a better 2017.

You have a choice whether  to copy the questions. However, if I were you, for my self-directed learning purpose, I would copy the questions.

Do the questions in the exercise book.


1. 3 hundreds, 2 tens and 6 hundredths is the same as ___________.

2.  7/9 of number is 63.  What is the number?

3. The ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in a school hall was 7 : 5. 
If there were 42 more boys than girls in the hall, how many pupils were there in the hall?

4. Wayne and Ryan shared some money in the ratio of 5 : 4. 
    If they shared a total of $108,what was Ryan’s share?

5. A shopkeeper bought 20 packets of sugar.  Each packet had 2.5 kg of sugar.
  He repacked the sugar into packets of 2 kg each.  How many of such packets 
  of sugar did he get, if he used up all of the sugar?

6. Mr James has some sheep in his farm.  The number of sheep is from 50 to 70. 
He can group them in groups of 7 or 8 without any remainder. 
How many sheep does he have?


Happy solving the questions.

Look out for the answers in the next entry.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Speed Test 25

Speed Test 25

Dear all,

I hope you have done very well for the 4 speed tests.
Now, check the last speed test .

(1)  1225
(2)  240 degrees
(3) 60 degrees
(4) 38 degress
(5) 116 degrees
(6) 33.5 litres
(7a)  31
(7b)  136
(7c) 118
(8)  1 17/20 m
(9)  56 degrees

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Speed Test 24

Answer for Speed Test 24

Dear all,
Please check your answers for Speed Test 24.

(1)  $60
(2)  $8
(3) 42 goats
(4)  55 degrees
(5)  36
(6a)  3120\
(6b)  15
(7)  9 cm
(8)  280

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Monday 17 October 2016

Speed Test 23

Speed Test 23

Dear all,
I hope you have done well for Speed Tests 21 and 22. For the questions that you got wrong, remember to go through again to get the correct answers.

Now check your answers for Speed Test 23.

(1)  42
(2)  2.6 litres
(3a)  32 degrees
(3b)  122 degrees
(4)  8
(5)  43 kg
(6) 264
(7)  3 : 7]
(8)  1370
(9)  29.7%
(10)  567
(11a)  0.04 kg
(11b)  0.57 kg

Remember to go through your corrections.

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Sunday 16 October 2016

Answer for Speed Test 21 and 22

Dear all,
Hope you have completed your speed test 21 and 22.

Please check your answers and go through those that you did not get correct.

Remember : Never give yourself a "death sentence"!!

Speed 21                                                                Speed 22

(1)  5 : 1                                                              (1)  42
(2) 30 degrees                                                     (2)  $21.60
(3)  75                                                                 (3)  62
(4)  4500                                                             (4)  155 degrees
(5) 15                                                                  (5)  $360
(6)  24.6                                                              (6)  $21
(7) 32                                                                  (7a)  102 degrees
(8) 135 degrees                                                  (7b)  101 degrees
(9) 15                                                                 (9a)   17 cm
(10)  151 cm                                                       (9b)  32.5 square cm      
                                                                             (10)   28 cm

Monday 10 October 2016

Practice Paper Answer Paper 1 & 2



Dear all,
Please check your answers and go through the questions that you did not get correct and check if you can get them correct this time.
Remember - Do not punish yourself with a "death sentence" when you did not try again.


Practice Paper Answer Paper 1

(1)    4                                 (16)  39
(2)    2                                 (17)  5 4/7
(3)    4                                 (18)  1, 3, 5,15
(4)    1                                 (19) 1.9
(5)    3                                 (20)  7/17
(6)    1                                 (21)  22
(7)    3                                 (22)  3500
(8)    1                                 (23)  214
(9)    2                                 (24)  8
(10)  4                                 (25)  --
(11)  2                                 (26)  $5
(12)  4                                 (27)  17 1/2
(13)  1                                 (28)  --
(14)  3                                 (29)  16
(15)  3                                 (30) 142


Practice Paper Answer Paper 2

(11)   208
(12)   25
(13)   110
(14)   500
(15)   18.75
(16a)   16 small bows
(16b)   1125 cm
(17)      2550
(18a)     24 cm
(18b)   216 cubic cm

Love you,
Mrs Mak


Friday 12 August 2016

Revision

Dear all,
Please complete your Review 4 ( WB Pg 41 - 48) in your workbook. Complete your Practice Papers ( CA 2 Practice 1 and Practice 2) all the questions.


Also , work out these questions on a piece of foolscap paper. Copy out the questions and  solve the sums

1. The ratio of the number of  20 cent coins to that of 50 cent coins Alven had was 5 : 7. He had 30 more 50 cent coins than 20 cent coins.How many coins of each type did he have?


2. 4/7 of the books in a library are English books. The rest are made up of Chinese, Malay and Tamil story books in the ratio 6 : 3 : 5. If there are 1380 more  Tamil than Malay story books, how many English books are there?

Love you,
Mrs Mak

Monday 8 August 2016

Practice Paper answer - Aeroplane

Dear all,
Please check your answer for the Practice paper with the picture of the aeroplane.Please go through the questions that you did not get right and check what was wrong with your working and do your corrections.

(1)  $33.90
(2) 3.6 litres
(3) 76 square cm
(4) 128
(5) 34
(6) 561
(7) 120
(8) 4374
(9) 825
(10) 0.35 kg
(11) $2.70
(12) 127
(13) 4095
(14) 28 litres 450ml
(15) 334
(16a)  Shop A
(16b) $8 cheaper
(17) 430
(18) 304

Love you,
Mrs Mak


Sunday 19 June 2016

Great News

Dear All,

There will be no more daily bread for this week.

Go and have a good break and enjoy the last week of your holidays.

When your are back next week, make sure you are ready for hard work:))

See ya...


Love you,
Mrs Mak
Answers for Daily Bread 6 - 15 June

1.  1 3/4 x 10 =17 1/2  


2.   19 x 38 = 722
      722 ÷ 25 = 28.88
     28.88 ≈  29

3.  12 u  ----  60
      1 u à 5
      7 u à 5 x 7 = 35

      5 u à 35
        1 u à 7
      2 u à 7 x 2 = 14

Monday 13 June 2016

Daily Bread 6 - Wednesday 15 June 2016

Daily Bread 6    15 June 2016


1. Noora used 1 3/4 m of crepe paper to make a paper flower.
How many metres of crepe paper would she need to make 10 similar paper flowers? Express your answer as a mixed number. 

2. Pens are sold in packets of 25. Mr Alan wants to give 19 pens to each of the 38 pupils in his CCA. How many packets of pens must he buy?


3.  There are some red, blue and green buttons in a bag.
The ratio of the number of red buttons to the number of blue buttons is 2 : 5.
The ratio of the number of blue buttons to the number of green buttons is 7 : 12.
If there are 60 green buttons, how many red buttons are there? 



Answers for Monday  13 June 2016 Daily Bread

1. $1.60 × 4 + $0.80 = $7.20  
He pays $7.20 for 5 chicken wings.

 $110 ÷ $7.20 = 15 R $2     
 15 × 5 + 1 = 76
He can buy 76 chicken wings


2.  9u ® 540
      1u ---   60
    12 u ----  60 x 12 = 720 

   Adult ----- 720
  Children -----  60 x 8 = 480

      480 – 276 = 204 (boys)
(204 / 1200 )  = 17/100

Daily Bread 5

Daily Bread 5                                      13 June 2016


1.  The price of one chicken wing from Ayam King is $1.60. For every 4 chicken wings that a customer buys, he can buy another chicken wing at half the price.

(a)    How much does a customer pay for 5 chicken wings?

(b)    Mr Yeo is having a party. What is the greatest number of chicken wings he can buy with $110?


2.  In a walkathon, 3/5 of the participants were adults. 540 of the adults were men. 1/4  of the adults were women. There were 276 girls. What percentage of the total number of participants were boys?

Answers for Daily Bread 4

Answers for Daily Bread 4

1.  1.20  -  $0.35  =  $0.85 (apple pie)
      95 x $1.20 = $114
 
Assuming all are ckn pies$114  -  $88.10  =  $25.90
$25.90 ÷  $0.35 = 74 apple pies





2.     Siti : Sister : Diff
          5  :     8    :    3

_______________________
     (   3   :      4    :    1  )  x 3
         9   :     12   :     3

  4 u  ----- 28
  1 u ------ 7
13 u ------ 13 x 7
               = 91

Wednesday 8 June 2016

Daily Bread 4 - Heuristic Skills

Daily Bread 4 - Heuristic Skills                                         9 June 2016

1. Mrs Tan made 95 chicken pies and apple pies. Each chicken pie cost $1.20. Each apple pie cost 35¢ less than a chicken pie. If she sold all the chicken and apple pies and collected $88.10, how many apple pies did she make?


2. Siti and her sister shared some stickers in the ratio 5 : 8. After their cousin gave 28 stickers to each of them, the ratio became 3 : 4. Find the total number of stickers the girls had at first.
Dear all,
Answer for Daily Bread 3

1.
1 set  à  10  +  1  =  11
48  ÷  11  =  4  r 4                            
4 x 10 + 4 = 44
Ans: 44


2.         1/2   à  4u                                    
      3u  à  $45                                 
      1u à $15
       8u à $15  x  8  =  $120            
   Ans: $120 
                

Tuesday 7 June 2016

Daily Bread 3 - Heuristic Skills

Daily Bread 3 - Heuristic Skills                                   8 June 2016

1. For every 10 notebooks Ahmad buys, he gets 1 similar notebook free. If he needs 48 notebooks, what is the least number of books he has to buy?


2. Surin organized a barbeque party. He spent $45 on chicken wings and 1/5 of his remaining money on drinks. If he had 1/2 of his original sum of money left, how much money did he have at first?

Daily Bread 2- Heuristic Skills Answer

Dear all,

Please check your answer.


1.   Sew                   Earn                 Bonus                  Total earnings
          1                     $7                       x                            $7
         10                    $70                     $5                           $75

            492 ÷ 75 = 6 R 42  ( 6 sets R $42)
             $42 ÷ 7 = 6 ( dresses)
              6 x 10 + 6 = 66
Ans:66 dresses.



2.     P  :  Q 
       4   :   3

   86 - 8 - 8 = 70
  7 u = 70
  1u = 10
  4u = 40
Ans: 40 years old

Wednesday 1 June 2016

Daily Bread 2 - Heuristic Skills


Dear all,
I hope you have checked the answer for Daily Bread 1 and have gotten them correct. 
Go to your content page and record your Daily bread 2. Make sure you have numbered your pages as mentioned in Daily Bread 1.

Copy the 2 questions below and start your daily bread.

Love you all :))



Daily Bread 2 - Heuristic Skills                                                  2 June 2016

Q1. For every dress that Rina sews, she earns $7. A bonus of $5 is given to her for every 10  dresses she sews. How many dresses must she sew to earn $492?



Q2. The ratio of Peter's age to Queenie's age is 4 : 3.  In 8 years' time, the sum of their ages will be 86. What is Peter's age now?

Daily Bread 1 - Ratio Answer

Dear all,
I hope you have done the 2 questions in Daily Bread 1.

Let's check your answer.

Q1.  Concept : Common Variable ( C)

            A  :  C                                      C : B
        ( 3   :  7 ) x 5                            ( 5 : 2 ) x 7
         15  :  35                                    35 : 14

                A  :  B  : C
               15  :  14  :  35                                                              Ans:   15 : 14 : 35



Q2.  Concept :  1 Variable no change ( Foreign)

           L  :  F
         ( 3  :  4 )  x 2
           6  :   8    
           9  :  8

   9u - 6u = 3u

3u = 60
1u = 20
8u = 160                                                                       Ans:  160 Foreign stamps

Sunday 29 May 2016

Daily Bread 1 - ratio

Dear all,
Please do these two questions in a new exercise book. Leave 3 pages for your content page. Number your page from the 4th page onwards.

On the 4th page, copy out the first question and then solve the problem. for the second question, copy it on a new page and then solve the problem.

Page 4
Daily Bread 1 - Ratio                                                                  30 May 2016

Q1:  The ratio of Ahmad’s money to Charlie’s money is in the ratio 3 : 7.  The ratio of   Charlie’s money to Betty’s money is in the ratio 5 : 2. Find the ratio of Ahmad’s money to Betty’s money to Charlie’s money.

Leave a line after copying the question and solve your problem. When you copy the question, don't leave lines.

New page
Q2. Vanessa had some local and foreign stamps. The ratio of the number of local stamps to the number of foreign stamps was 3 : 4. She bought 60 more local stamps and the ratio     became 9 : 8. How many foreign stamps did Vanessa have?



Welcome to Our Own Blog - P5-5

Dear all,
This is our first blog together as a class. I will make use of this blog to disseminate information and to aid us in our learning of Mathematics.

Next week from Monday 5 June onwards, log on to this blog for your daily bread of solving 2 to 4 questions a day.  The questions to be done in your exercise book.

See you next week.

Love you,
Mrs Irene Mak