Mark's Maths for Willy Kids

If you are an upper primary school student, with an interest in mathematics, you might like to try some of these problems. Just click on the title of the problem that you wish to try. (Note for teachers: These problems are generally written to extend students working on the Victorian Mathematics Curriculum and Standards Framework 2 at Level 4. The major mathematics skills each problem covers is written in brackets)  These problems were written between 1999-2001.
Mark Richardson, Information & Communication Technologies, Williamstown Primary School.
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• Kids: At Work & At Play (Time, Decimals, Addition, Subtraction, Spreadsheets)
• Get Some Staff!! (Money, Decimals, Addition, Multiplication, Division)
• Big Ben Mathematics (Mass, Circumference, Time, Measurement of height, Spreadsheets)
• Williamstown Wants To Waste Less Water (Volume, Multiplication, Division, Spreadsheets)
• Thorpedo-matics (Length, Area, Estimation, Time)
• The Volume of the Pool at The Williamstown Lifesaving Club (Length, Area, Volume)
• Football Stadiums (Ordering distances, Stem & Leaf plots, Scale, Ratio)
• The World's Population (Interpreting graphs, Percentage)
• Leap Year Birthdays (Time, Chance)
• Counting Penguins (Estimating large numbers)
• The Big Iceberg (Length, Scale, Distance, Area)
• The Love Letter (Mass, Division)
• The Will (Fractions)

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