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Twenty-one gas cylinders are to be loaded onto three lorries.
Seven cylinders are full, seven are half-full and seven are empty.
A full cylinder weighs 50kg and an empty cylinder weighs 20kg.
How should they be loaded onto the lorries so that each lorry is carrying the same weight?
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In your kitchen or in a supermarket, look at the information on labels on unopened packages and discover how heavy the items are. Some small items may be labelled in grams and other items will be labelled in kilograms.
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Your Granny bought a bar of chocolate marked into 32 pieces and weighing 180 grams.
How many pieces make half the chocolate bar?
How many pieces make one quarter?
What fraction of the bar is one piece of chocolate?
She gave you and your sister 2 pieces each to eat. What fraction […]
These images are not shown to the same scale. An elephant is much bigger and heavier than a cat or a car. Can you arrange these things in order from lightest to heaviest? Can you estimate the mass of each of these things?
Try a few of these:
Do human beings live for as long as a million hours?
If you have been alive for a million seconds, how many birthdays have you had?
What year was it one billion minutes ago?
How long would it take to count to a million […]
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