Maths Facts
Maths Riddles
Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication and Division
Challenges
100

Is Zillion a real number?

nope!

100

A mother has 6 girls and each of them has a brother. How many children are there?

7 - Each girl has the same brother.

100

90 + 9 = 

99 

100

3 X 5 = 

15 
100

List all the multiplications of 5 from 0 - 12 

5, 10 ,15 ,20 ,25, 30, 35,40, 45, 50, 55, 60

200

How many Zeros are there in One Million?

6

200

If my dining room table has 6 chairs, how many legs are in the set?

28 (including the table)

200

60 - 10 = 

10

200

9 x 7 = 

63

200

Your team has 5 minutes to build a paper aeroplane, 

We will see which team goes the furthest! 

Build away!

300

Who is the Maths HOD at this school?

Mr K 

300

You have 6 eggs. You break 2, cook 2 and you eat 2 eggs. How many do you have left?

4. The 2 you break are the ones you cook, which are the ones you eat.

300

369 + 288 = 

657

300

There are 21 students in Miss Josman's class. There are only seven desk groups. How many students are in each group?

3 students in each group

300

what is the highest number you can make with the following digits? 

8, 5, 1, 9 ,3

98531

400

List all the combinations of numbers that can be added to equal 10 

for example, 7 + 3 = 10 

50 points for every correct option 

5 + 5 = 10, 

4 + 6 = 10, 6 + 4 = 10

3 + 7 = 10, 7+3 = 10

2 + 8 = 10, 8 +2 = 10 

1 + 9 = 10, 9 +1 = 10


400

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550? Can you figure it out?

545+5=550

400

769 - 635 =

134 

400

The tuckshop need to bake Pizza for everyone for Are U Okay week. They need to make 12 batches of pizza and each batch requires 4 cups of flour. How many cups of flour are needed by the tuckshop? 

12 x 4 = 48 cups of flour

400

Paper basketball  

crumple a piece of paper your, team have 4 shots to try make it into the bin. Every shot in is 100 points

go team! 


500

If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?

0 - Zero
500

Write the next number of the following Sequences 1,

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,_?

21 (add the last two numbers)

500

If I go to Harvey Norman and purchase a laptop for $699, insurance for $250 and a laptop case for $72 how much did I spend?

$ 1021


500

The Tuckshop have 3 Dozen eggs. 

They need to bake enough muffins for 60 students. A batch of muffins require 4 eggs and makes 12 muffins. 

How many batches of muffins do they need to bake and how many eggs will this use? 

100 bonus points if you can tell me how many eggs are left over? 

60/12 = 5 Batches

5 x 4 = 20 eggs

Left over eggs: 3 x 12 = 36 , 36 - 20 = 16

500

Cup stack time! 

Each team will race to stack and unstack the cups...quickest team gets the points!

stack, stack, stack