Ten Minute Maths Test

Welcome to our first Ten Minute Maths Test. There are 15 questions and you should try and do them in 10 minutes if you can.

Firstly, answer the following questions as fast and accurately as you can. You may use paper and a pencil for calculations.

Your score and a step by step account of getting to the correct answer will be available at the end. For an extra challenge also see how quickly you can get through this. The questions will vary every time you do.

Ready, get set, go…..

Our ten-minute tests for 11+ preparation is also a great way to get your daily practice.

Working out past exam papers for practice and revision is a great idea. It not only helps you to get used to the way questions are asked. It also gives you a chance to put your knowledge into action.

Unfortunately, it can also be very time-consuming. Sometimes just a quick 5 or 10 minutes is all you have. Your results will be available to you immediately and the answers explained and compared to those of your child.

Benefits of daily Math practice

The benefits of daily Math practice is well documented and easily recognised. The best way you are going to get ahead in Math is to practise what you have learnt. Some of these benefits are:

Test your Math skills
Revise your knowledge
Learn while testing
Identify your strengths and weaknesses
Improve Math test and exam scores

Make sure to go through the answers at the end. Have a look at the steps in getting to the correct answer and make sure you understand. Try the test again. You will find that the questions will be different every time.

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Ten-Minute Maths Test

Ten Minute Maths Test

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One-fifth of pupils at a school walk to school.

What percentage is this?

To obtain A-grade pupils needed to get 15 or above.

The scores were 10, 15, 16, 12, 20, 19, 18, 9, 15, and 14. What percentage of pupils got an A-grade?

What is ½ x ½?

A visitor gives a class talk lasting for an hour and a quarter.

If the class starts at 12:30, what time does the talk finish (using the 24-hour clock)?

On the last day of the term, the school finishes 90 minutes early.

If the usual finish time is 15:15, what time does school finish on the last day of term?

A child walks 1.25km to school.

If the child walks on average at 5km per hour how long does this journey take?

In a spelling test of 30 questions, pupils score the following range of results: 19, 21, 15, 26, 25, 30, 28, 24, and 27.

What is the median?

What is 1/4 multiplied by 1/3?

There are 15 boys and 10 girls in a class.

What is the ratio of girls to boys?

A small class of pupils achieves the following marks on a test: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 10, 8.

What is the mean score?

A school day lasts for seven and a quarter hours.

If school starts at 09:00, what time does school finish (using the 24-hour clock)?

The highest mark achieved in a test was 16 out of 25.

What is this expressed as a percentage?

What is 3.2 multiplied by 50?

A school has one hundred and fifteen pupils.

20% of these take a dance class on a Monday.

How many pupils take a dance class?

In a class of 30 pupils, 12 are boys.

What fraction of the class are girls?

A class is comprised of 3/5ths girls.

If there are 20 children in the class, what are the numbers of boys and girls?

What is 40% of 680?

A school trip is planned. Parents are asked to pay 90% of the total cost.

If the total cost is £55.50 how much must the parents pay in total?

The return journey to school costs £2.50 by bus.

How much would be saved each week by walking to school?

In a trip to the local swimming pool, the teacher is required to collect £2.75 from each of her 12 pupils.

Three pupils have not brought the entrance charge to the local leisure centre with them.

How much money does the teacher collect?

One-eighth of pupils at a school receive free school meals.

What percentage is this?

School lunch break is scheduled for 12:30.

There are 3 classes lasting 65 minutes each prior to this lunch break.

At what time do classes start?

What is 0.9 x 0.5?

What is 5/6 as a percentage?

A small class of pupils achieves the following marks on a test: 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 15, 20, and 18.

What is the mean score?

Fifteen pupils paid £9.50 for a school trip to a museum.

Each pupil spent an additional £3.25 on average in the museum shop.

What was the total amount spent by the fifteen pupils?

A 1.5km school walk is planned.

What is this distance in miles (using the conversion 1 km: 0.6 miles)?

Twenty of a school’s one hundred and thirty pupils are in the school choir.

What fraction of pupils are in the school choir?

A parent gives her son £6.00 spending money on a school day trip to France.

If the exchange rate is 1.2 Euros to the £, how many Euros does the parent give her son?

The school coach travels 45 miles to the school and then 45 miles back to the depot.

How much petrol (in litres) does the coach use on a typical round trip if it uses an average of 8 miles per litre?

A school trip to see a play costs £5.50 for the coach travel and £12.75 for the ticket.

If a parent wants to allow their two children to each have £2.00 to spend on refreshments, what will the total cost be?

A school’s attendance rate drops by a tenth over a term.

If the rate was 90% at the start of term, what is the attendance rate % at the end of the term?

In a sponsored running race four teachers raise £24.33, £19.90, £15.75 and £46.80 respectively.

How much money is raised in total?

The headteacher took part in a sponsored swim for charity.

Sixty-three pupils sponsored the head teacher at an average of 5p per length.

If the head teacher swam 50 lengths how much money was raised in sponsorship?

The afternoon break has been delayed by 40 minutes for a teacher emergency.

If the usual time for afternoon break is 14:25, what time is the delayed afternoon break?

Afternoon classes last 3 hours.

If afternoon classes finish at 15:30, what time do afternoon classes start?

In a spelling test of 20 questions, pupils score the following range of results: 9, 11, 5, 16, 15, 20, 18, 14, and 17.

What is the median?

The annual school fete raises £2,051.00.

The bookstall raises £615.30.

What is this as a percentage of the total amount raised?

Out of a year group of 84 pupils, 25% achieved key stage 3.