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7.1 Rectangles and triangles
Worked example 1

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Estimate the area of this triangle.
area
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SA

Centimetre squared paper.

10 whole squares are covered by Count whole squares that are covered
the triangle. by the triangle.
There are no squares that are less Do not count squares that are less than
than half covered. half covered.
There are 5 half squares covered by Pair up squares that are half covered to
1 make whole squares.
the triangle, that makes 2 whole
2
squares covered.
I estimate that the area of the Write your estimate using units of area. The
1 squares are centimetre squares so we use cm2.
triangle is 12 cm2.
2

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Exercise 7.1
Focus
1 Multiply the width of the rectangle by its length to calculate each area.
Write your answer using units of area.

9 km

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8 cm
7m

9 km

2
4m

      
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Circle the rectangles that have been divided into two equal pieces.
   
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SA

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3 a What is the area of this rectangle?

3 cm

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4 cm

b Divide the area of the rectangle by 2 to find the area of one of the triangles.

c
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What is the area of the triangle?

Explain why dividing the area of the rectangle by 2 gives us the

area of the triangle.
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Practice
4 Estimate the area of each triangle to the nearest half centimetre.
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5 Circle the grey triangles that have an area of 9 cm2.

You will need to measure the sides of the rectangles.

a b

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c d

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6 Work out the length of the missing side.

Area of this triangle is 12 m2

8m

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Challenge
7 Draw some different right-angled triangles on the squares that have
an area of 6 cm2.

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PL
M
How could you test that the triangle has an area of 6 cm2?
SA

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8 Chata is painting triangular tiles to create a mosaic.

This is the actual size of one tile.

2 cm

2 cm

One 15 ml pot of paint covers 18 cm2.

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15 ml

What is the total number of paint pots that he will need to buy to cover 75 tiles?

9
PL 2 cm
M
6 cm
4 cm
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6 cm

a What is the area of the large square?

b What is the area of each white triangle?

c What is the area of the grey square?

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7.2 Time

7.2 Time
Exercise 7.2
Focus
1 Convert these times into minutes and seconds.

a 2 minutes = minutes and seconds

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b 2.5 minutes = minutes and seconds

c 3.25 minutes = minutes and seconds

2
d 3.75 minutes =

PLminutes and

Draw lines to match the same times.

2 hours and 45 minutes

seconds

1.25 days
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1.25 hours 5.5 minutes

4 days and 12 hours 5 hours and 30 minutes

5.5 hours
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1 hour and 15 minutes 4.5 days

2.75 minutes 2.75 hours 2 minutes and 45 seconds

5 minutes and 30 seconds 1 day and 6 hours

4 hours and 30 minutes 4.5 hours

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Practice
3 This line graph shows equivalent amounts of time in hours and in minutes.
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60

55

50

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45

40

35

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Minutes

30

25

20

15

10
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5

0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.1
–5
Hours
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Use the conversion graph to convert these times from hours to minutes.

a 0.2 hours = minutes

b 0.7 hours = minutes

c 0.45 hours = minutes

d 0.95 hours = minutes

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7.2 Time

4 2045

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

31 1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31

PL
This is a page from a calendar for the year 2045.
Use what you know about the months of a year and the number
of days in each month to answer these questions.
a Suggest two months that this calendar page could be for.
Explain how you know.
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b If the calendar is from the second half of the year,
what is the date circled?
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c Use what you know about years, months and days to work out
how old each of these people will be on the circled date.

i Cheng was born on 11th July 2013, he will be years, months

and days old.

ii Halima was born on 2nd April 2006, she will be years, months
and days old.

iii Magda was born on 27th July 1975, she will be years, months
and days old.

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iv Jack was born on 18th October 1972, he will be years,

months and days old.

v Stefan was born on 30th September 1966, he will be years,

months and days old.

Challenge
5 Six people are at a railway station waiting for six trains to

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different destinations.
Use the clues to work out the destination of each train.

Destination Departure time

PL 11:48

12:18

12:58

13:23

13:53
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14:28

Clues
The train for Barcelona leaves later than the train for Brussels,
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but before the train for Venice.

The train for Brussels leaves between 12 o’clock and 1 o’clock.
The train for Vienna leaves later than the train for Copenhagen,
but before the train for Barcelona.
The train to Vienna leaves 40 minutes before the next train.
The train that leaves at 7 to 2 is going to a place with six
letters in its name.
The train for Warsaw leaves before the train for Venice but later
than the train for Barcelona.

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7.2 Time

Tip

Use this logic table to work out which train

left when. Put a cross in any places that cannot
be the correct time for that train. Tick the time
when you know it is correct for that train.

11:48 12:18 12:58 13:23 13:53 14:28

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Barcelona

Venice

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Brussels

Vienna

Warsaw

Copenhagen
PL
Make your own timetable. Use 24-hour clock times.
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There are five stations on the line. You can name the stations.
There are three trains. They can go back and forth along the line
as many times as you like.
These are the times between stations.
SA

0.4 hours
0.95 hours 1.2 hours
1.15 hours

Trains must stop at each station for 2 minutes.

At the end of the line the train stops for 0.3 hours before going back.

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From to :

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From to :

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Tip

Look at other bus or train timetables for ideas.

In the first table, write the arrival and departure times from
the first station to the fifth station.
In the second table, write the arrival and departure times from
the fifth station back to the first station.

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