P5 Math: Percentage and Ratio to describe 3 Values

Once students are taught percentage and ratio, these 2 concepts can be presented in the same problem sum such as the one below.

Students must make use of the "repeated identity" method to solve.

Such questions are common in WA2 and SA2 of P5 exams.

Calculator usage is allowed.

There are oranges, pears and apples for sale at a fruit stall.

15% of the fruits at the stall are oranges.

The ratio of pears to apples at the stall is 12:5.

There are 150 more apples than oranges at the stall.

How many fruits are there altogether at the fruit stall?

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P5 Math: Uneven Ratio becomes Equal after Both Decrease

This question provides the ratio of 2 items at first.
After both undergo different decrease in value, both ends up being equal with one another.

Such questions are common in WA2(mid year) for P5.

Calculator usage may be allowed.

A similar but "inverted" version of this question can also be found "here".

Alan and Rick each have pencils in the ratio of 5:8.

After Alan gave away 32 pencils and Rick sold 77 pencils.

They have equal number of pencils remaining.

How many pencils did Rick have at the end?

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P4 Math: Assumption

This question type is identical to "Guess and Check" which students have learnt in P3.

But in P4, a mathematical method is preferred to using a Guess/Check table.

The "Assumption" method is a required skill in P4 onwards

Such questions will begin to appear in P4 WA1 or SA1 in Section C.

In a carpark of 30 cars and motorcycles,

these vehicles have a total of 100 wheels.

How many motorcycles are there in this carpark?

What goes on at a car manufacturing plant?

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P4 Math: Fraction of a Fraction

Questions that deals with fraction of a fraction will usually appear in P4 WA2 and SA2.

Such questions will appear in Section C.

This is a pre-cursor to the P5 "Fraction of Remainder" type of questions.

A slightly easier version of this question for P4 students can be found here.

There are 280 people in a library.
¹/₄ of the people at this library are children.
The remaining are adults.
¹/₅ of the adults are men.

How many of the adults in the library are women?

Which is the oldest library in Singapore?

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P5/P6 Math: 2 Different Items of Different Unit Value and Different Quantities

This question provides 2 different totals of 2 different items with different unit values and quantities. But it does not give any other information besides the quantities and the totals.

Such questions are suitable for P5 and P6.
These questions will usually appear in paper 2.
Calculator usage is allowed.

6 bricks and 3 cement bags have a total mass of 24 kg

3 bricks and 6 cement bags have a total mass of 30 kg

What is the total mass of 1 cement bag and 1 brick? 

How are housing flats built in Singapore?

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