Monday

Click here for the floating trainer story

a) How many pairs of basketball shoes are bobbing on the Pacific?

b) How many pairs of hockey gloves are afloat?

c) How many cross trainers are crossing the Pacific?

2. Estimate how far the trainers could travel across the ocean in April.

Tuesday

Click here to read a disturbing report

1. From the headline above how many teenagers surveyed had been the victims of crime?

2. How many teenagers kept quiet about the crimes?

3. What was the total number who had been victims of verbal abuse and bullying?

4. 40 teenagers reported that they had been the victims of 3 or more crimes. What fraction of the number surveyed is that?

Wednesday

1. If the mast snapped into 3 equal pieces how long would each piece be?

2. Calculate how many more days - at most -  they could have spent at sea and broken the record.

3. If the mast snapped into three different length pieces - and the longest piece is 8 times bigger than the smallest, and twice the size of the remaining piece - how long is each piece of mast?

Thursday

Cat lovers click here for an oversize story

1. How much heavier is this cat than the official world record holder?

2. Write the answer above in grams.

3. If you put both cats on a weighing scale and balanced the other side with ½kg

tins of cat food - how many tins would you need to balance the scales?

Friday

Click here to find out more about green energy

1. What % of our electricity today comes from non-green sources?

2. What do the government expect the % to be in 2020. Write the answer as a % and as a fraction.

3. Complete the sentence below

    It will have taken __ years to reduce carbon dioxide levels by __% in 2050