Basics – numbers

1. What do we call numbers like: ¼, ½, ⅓, ¾ , ⅞ ? Can you read them?

2. How should you read the following: π, 3.14159265 and 0.67 ?
3. How do you read:
8² = 64
5³ = 125
11 ft² = 1.0219 m²
1 acre = 4,047 m²
4. You will hear some simple maths problems. Write them down:
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5. Complete with an appropriate number, then read:

1.609 0.454 9¾ 0.568 101 2 102 4 23 30.48 32 1001 13 ¾ 0.914

1. Hogwarts Express leaves from Platform ..........................................

2. The United Kingdom consists of ........................... countries. (Can you name them?)
3. There are ............. kilometres in a mile.
4. There are ................. kilograms in a pound.
5. Zero degrees Celsius is ........................ degrees Fahrenheit.
6. One pint is .......................... litre.
7. One foot is ........................ centimetres.
8. There are ......................... metres in a yard.
9. There are traditionally ................. Arabian Nights stories.
10. In a cartoon, ................ Dalmatians were missing.
11. The second part of Tolkien’s trilogy is “The ……………… Towers.”
12. The dog Szarik travelled with the crew of tank number ......................
13. In the first book, Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole was aged ..............................
14. The lowest prime that consists of consecutive digits is ..............................
(a prime number - a number that can only be divided by itself and one.)

6. Put in order: mile, yard, inch, foot

7. Listen to an architect describing a house. Write the dimensions you hear:

house – 28 foot long (±1”), 20 foot …………………. (±1”) bathroom - ……………………………………………………

total area - …………………………………………………... height of rooms - …………………………………………….
main room, with the kitchen - ………………………………. doors, not including frames - ……………………………….
bedroom - …………………………………………………….
We write: We say:
Imperial:
12’ x 16’ twelve foot(feet) by sixteen foot (feet)
560 sq ft five hundred and sixty square foot (feet)
2’8” two foot (feet) eight inches
sq yd square yard
2 8 ’ ±1” twenty-eight foot (feet) plus or minus one inch
Metric:
0.03 cm zero (nought) point oh three centimetres
2,000m two thousand metres
scales: 15:1 fifteen to one