The Amazing Maths Race- Thursday

Thursday:             Safari in Africa.

 

You fly from London to Africa where you travel up the Nile, the longest river in the world. It is 6670km long!

1.      Is 6670 closer to 6500 or 7000?

 

2.      How many thousands are in 6670?

 

3.      You travel 10km a day.

          How far would you have travelled after 12 days?

 

Next you go on an African safari and see a cheetah, pride of lions, a tower of giraffes, a bloat of hippopotamuses and a very smelly warthog.

 

4. You count the lions in the pride in twos, ‘2, 4, ?, ?, 10’. What are the missing numbers?

 

5. The roar of a lion can be heard 8km away!  How many metres are in 8 kilometres?

6.      The average giraffe is 5 metres tall, what would the height be if 5 giraffes were stacked on top of  each other? (That would   be silly, they would tip over!)

 

7.      A hippopotamus can eat up to 68 kilograms of food a day!

          How many kilograms of food would a hippopotamus eat after two days?

 

8.      If a warthog has 30 warts and 20 drop off, how  many warts does he           have left?

 

9.      The fastest speed a warthog can run is 56 kilometres per hour.

          A lion can run 81 kilometres per hour.

          A cheetah can run 96km per hour. Which animal is the slowest?

 

10.    How much faster than a lion is a cheetah?

 

Fly to Australia!