Starter- recognise a topic

Laura manages a care home. She knows the ratio of carers to residents should be 1:6.

There are currently 25 residents. How many carers does Laura need?

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• Ratio
• Fractions
• Percentages
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time

Jenny is preparing for her work experience in a care home. She is looking at her travel costs for five days. A return ticket cost £22 per day. There is a discount of 15% if she buys a five-day ticket. How much money would she save with this discount.

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time
• Mean
• Percentages

Becky is carrying out a six-minute walk test with a series of adults. She records the distances they walk in metres.

400 468 675 520 585 418

What is the mean distance the adults walked?

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time
• Mean
• Range

Riley has planned three activities for their care home. Painting – 1 hour 20 minutes Tea dance – 1 ¾ hours Cards – 45 minutes How long will these activities last in total.

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time
• Range
• Mean

Tom is buying PPE for his work experience. He has put the costs in a bar chart.

How much would it cost in total to buy the PPE?

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Range
• Mean
• Extracting Information from Graphs and Charts

Your care home spends £37 on food and an extra £17 on drinks every day for breakfast for residents. How much change would they have from £400 after seven days?

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time
• Working with money
• Range

Karen is preparing food for residents. She has a recipe for a set number of people. She needs to amend the recipe for a different number of people. How would she do this?

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time
• Numberless Problem Solving
• Range

Stephen walks around the edge of his garden (see below). How far will he walk if he walks around the garden six times.

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse calculation
• Time
• Numberless Problem Solving
• Range

Use a reverse calculation to check your answer to question 3.

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• Fractions
• Probability
• Area
• Volume
• Perimeter
• Inverse operation
• Time
• Numberless Problem Solving
• Range