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Monday

BEANO BONANZA!

Read the story about a rare and valuable Beano here.

Q1 - The owner is now in his seventies - how old was he when his mum bought him the comic?

Need to be careful here because the information doesn't give his exact age - so we are looking for an age range.

Q2 - If a Beano today is 50p how many could you buy if you had a 1938 copy to exchange it for?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

POOR MADONNA!
Read what happened to Madonna and her family here.

If Madonna had £0.75 in her purse how much money did her husband have  in his pocket?

Guy Ritchie discovers a hole in his pocket - he thought he had £10 in loose change ( taxi tip) when he came out. 

How much money did he lose through the hole?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

KIDS MARCH FOR FAIRNESS!

Read here about 300 tired children from Argentina and their protest against child poverty

Q1 - If the children started walking on Monday - what was the day and the date when they reached half way?

Q2 - How far had they travelled when they reached half way?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday

ROYAL DOG DISGRACE!

Click here to read about a Princess and her pet in trouble

Princess Anne had a heavy price to pay for the bad behaviour of her dogs. Unfortunately she doesn't carry money so she asked her husband to empty his wallet. He paid the fine and costs using;

                                                  Some £100 notes
                                                             Some £50 notes
                                          Some £20 notes
                                                                 Some £10 notes
                                                      Some £5 notes

What is the least number of notes he could use to pay the fine and costs( he used at least one of each kind) ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday

SMOKERS FALL FOR PHONES!

Year Boys Girls   Mobile phone users
1996 28% 34% 13%
1998 25% 31% 33%
2000 ? ? 53%
2002 19% 25% 73%
2004 ? ? ?

Read the full story here

Researchers noticed a pattern between mobile phone use and the numbers of 15 year old smoking. 

Can you spot the pattern?

Q1 - Fill in the empty spaces for the table above from 1996 - 2002

Q2 - Use the information to predict what the results will be in 2004

Q3 - Now complete the sentence below that describes the pattern of behaviour.

When the number of mobile phone users goes up   _% the number of smokers falls by _%