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Weekly check: Grade 2

20 mixed questions from 20 grade 2 topics, 50 marks.

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1

The attendance at a football match was 24617.

  1. Round 24617 to the nearest 100.
  2. Round 24617 to the nearest 1000.
2 marks
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a) 24600 b) 25000
2

Find two prime numbers that add together to make 32.

2 marks
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3 and 29 (or 13 and 19)
3

A school has 400 pupils. 25% of them walk to school and 10% cycle.

  1. How many pupils walk to school?
  2. How many pupils cycle?
  3. How many pupils neither walk nor cycle?
3 marks
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a) 100 b) 40 c) 260
4

Aisha says,

"32 can be written as the sum of two square numbers."

Is Aisha correct?

You must show your working.

3 marks
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Yes, Aisha is correct: 32 = 16 + 16 = 4² + 4²
5

The rectangle is drawn on a grid of centimetre squares.

Work out the perimeter of the rectangle.

2 marks
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16 cm
6

Seven children have these ages.

12, 9, 15, 11, 9, 14, 10

Work out the median age.

2 marks
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11
7

Priya works for 9 hours.

She is paid a total of £102.60

Priya is paid the same amount for each hour she works.

Work out how much Priya is paid per hour.

2 marks
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£11.40
8

The diagram shows a regular hexagon.

  1. Draw all the lines of symmetry on the hexagon.
  2. Write down the number of lines of symmetry of a regular hexagon.
3 marks
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a) six lines: 3 joining opposite corners and 3 joining midpoints of opposite sides b) 6
9

The diagram shows an angle.

  1. Use a protractor to measure the angle.
  2. Write down the type of angle.
2 marks
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a) 35 degrees (accept 33 to 37) b) acute
10

Amir and Beth share a prize of £360.

Amir gets 25 of the prize. Beth gets the rest.

Beth gives 14 of her share to charity.

Work out how much money Beth keeps.

4 marks
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£162
11

Hana buys a book for £6.95, a pen for £1.80 and a notebook for £2.45. She pays with a £20 note.

How much change does she get?

3 marks
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£8.80
12

Jack is 1.62 m tall.

Ben is 158 cm tall.

Who is taller, and by how many centimetres?

2 marks
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Jack, by 4 cm
13

The temperature in Cardiff is 3 °C.

The temperature in Oslo is −8 °C.

Work out how many degrees colder Oslo is than Cardiff.

2 marks
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11
14

Here is a number machine with a missing number.

When the input is 4, the output is 14.

  1. Work out the missing number in the machine.
  2. Use the completed machine to work out the output when the input is 7.
Input4× ?+ 2Output14
3 marks
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a) 3 b) 23
15
  1. Work out 8 + 12 ÷ 4
  2. Put a pair of brackets in this statement to make it true.
    8 + 12 ÷ 4 = 5
  3. Put a pair of brackets in this statement to make it true.
    2 + 3 × 4 − 1 = 19
3 marks
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a) 11 b) (8 + 12) ÷ 4 = 5 c) (2 + 3) × 4 - 1 = 19
16

Fill in the missing numbers.

  1. 34 = ?12
  2. 56 = 20?
2 marks
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a) 9 b) 24
17

Work out 358 × 27

3 marks
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9666
18

a = 3   and   b = 5

  1. Work out the value of 2a + b
  2. Work out the value of 3b − a
2 marks
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a) 11 b) 12
19

Write down the first five multiples of 6.

2 marks
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6, 12, 18, 24, 30
20
  1. The line x = 5 and the line y = −1 cross at the point P.
    Write down the coordinates of P.
  2. The line y = x and the line x = 3 cross at the point Q.
    Write down the coordinates of Q.
  3. Write down the coordinates of the point where the line y = 2 crosses the y-axis.
3 marks
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a) (5, -1) b) (3, 3) c) (0, 2)

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