One big summer weekend of word problems for Year 5 maths. Pupils work through a school fundraiser, a charity run, a budget table and a final profit question, choosing operations at each step, from adding £6,450 and £5,875 towards a £15,000 target to working backwards from a profit of £12,680. Answers are included. Matches the England National Curriculum multi-step problems objective.
Number - addition and subtraction
“Solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations to use”
Every question is a multi-step context problem, so this objective runs through the sheet.
Number - addition and subtraction
“Use rounding to check answers to calculations and determine levels of accuracy”
The budget section includes a rounding claim for pupils to check.
Money problems against a £15,000 target, plus a 35,000-seat stadium question.
Pupils total distances run on Friday and Saturday to find what remains for Sunday.
Table-based questions on leftover budget and a rounding claim to verify.
An inverse problem working back from a final profit of £12,680.
Full solutions for every problem.
Main activity
Run it as the core task in a problem-solving lesson, working in pairs.
Assessment check
The inverse problem in Final Totals shows who can reason backwards.
Homework
Set one section per night across the week if four pages is too much at once.
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