P5/P6 Math: Cutting into pieces with a tool

The question below requires students to see that one cut can cut a single length into 2 pieces.

And 2 cuts into 3 pieces.

Such questions are common in Paper 1 of P5 and P6 exams.

Calculator usage is not allowed.

Questions of a similar nature can be also found here.

A carpenter using a hacksaw can saw a length of wood into 3 pieces in 3 minutes.

How long will it take for the carpenter to saw the same length of wood into 9 pieces?

(*Hint* The answer is not 9 minutes.) 

A Hacksaw

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P6 Math: Counting using Hops/Gaps instead of Objects

When questions appears to be too juvenile for P6 students, 

they usually are.

Such is this type of question which an object must traverse past several objects to reach the final destination. The focus is on the number of hops/gaps and not the number of objects.

Such questions are common in Paper 1 of P6 exams.

Calculator usage is not allowed.

A lift takes 24 seconds to travel
from the 1st floor to the 4th floor.

How much time will the lift take to travel 

from the 1st floor to the 8th floor?

Antique Elevator Iron Pointer

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P3 Math: Gaps and Objects

This question type of "Gaps and Objects" requires the P3 student to understand the difference between "Objects" and the "Gaps" in between every 2 objects.

Such questions usually will appear in Section C of P3 exam papers

Along a footpath of 30m, 

there are 6 soldiers standing equally apart from each other.

What is the distance between every 2 soldiers?

National Service in Singapore

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P5/P6 Math: Gaps and Objects around a fenced shape.

This question revisits the topic of "Gaps and Objects".

Such questions usually will appear in paper 2 and in P5 SA2 onwards.

Calculator usage is allowed.

Pots of plants are placed, equal distance apart from each other,

along the side of a square that has a length of 120m.

Along every side of this square, there needs to be exactly 6 plants.

a) What is the least number of potted plants needed altogether?

b) What is the distance between every potted plant along the same side?

(Hint: Answer for part (a) is definitely NOT 24.)

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