Can YOU answer these tricky maths questions for a 14-year-old? Try this Year Nine SATs exam

Are you a math genius? Can you even beat a 14 year old with your number skills without counting on your fingers?

We’re once again asking MailOnline readers if their math skills measure up to what British Year Nine pupils should know, so we dug up another old SAT maths exam from the archives.

Pupils took SAT tests so their teachers can monitor their progress before they head off to study for their GCSEs in Year 10.

So MailOnline asks…

Can You Solve These Year Nine Maths Test Questions? – and remember that calculators are not allowed (Answers at the bottom of the page)

SAT MATH QUESTIONS

Can You Solve These SAT Math Written Test Questions For 14-Year-Olds?

After teachers walked out last week on what is being called ‘Walkout Wednesday’, Rishi Sunak accused Keir Starmer’s Labor Party of siding with striking workers after voting against the government’s anti-strike laws.

More than 20 Labor MPs joined the pickets on February 1, including former shadow MPs John McDonnell, Richard Burgon and Ian Lavery.

And Sadiq Khan, the Labor mayor of London, sent a message of support to the striking teachers, saying “the way they have been treated is disgraceful.”

Pupils took SAT tests so their teachers can monitor their progress before they head off to study for their GCSEs in Year 10.

She said of Sir Keir: “He can’t stand up to his union bosses, he can’t stand up for Britain’s schoolchildren today, and he can’t stand up for the women in his party.”

It came as parents urged teachers not to let children be ‘pawns in the middle’ of their pay dispute, as the first of four nationwide teacher strikes took place yesterday.

And as more than 100,000 members of the National Education Union withdrew, parents had to arrange childcare or take unplanned leave.

But the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Dowden, revealed on Friday that less than a third of teachers went on strike last Wednesday.

Dowden condemned the teaching disruption while speaking in the House of Commons and revealed the number of people who went on strike.

The Hertsmere MP said 12 per cent of civil servants took part in the strike on Wednesday, adding that 70 per cent of teachers also did not join.

Mr Dowden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: “I would also pay tribute to the vast majority of civil servants who did not go on strike yesterday, actually only 12 per cent took part in that strike and made sure that essential public services will continue. uninterrupted.’

There were also concerns about the impact of the strike on children whose education has already been disrupted by the lockdowns.

Dan Little, a father of school-age daughters who runs an engineering company, said: “The vast majority of the problem is government related.” [but] I just don’t agree with the strike, particularly in the public sector. I also don’t think kids should ever be pawns in the middle.

Rishi Sunak (right) criticized Keir Starmer (left) for putting ‘extremist protesters’ and Labor union paymasters ahead of schoolchildren during bruised PMQ clashes today.

Striking teachers and their supporters marching in Newcastle last week

Little, 45, from Upminster, Essex, added: “Hopefully the government and unions agree something sensible as soon as possible.”

Another parent wrote online: “The children have been deeply scarred by [lockdown] schools close and the last thing they need is adults abandoning them again. It is morally wrong.

WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS?

1. (a) 6, 18 (b) 8, 10 (c) two of, for example: n/5, n-10, square root (n)
2. (a) the cuboid A because each cube in D has 3 or 4 unseen faces but each cube in A has only 1 or 2 (b) all the same (c) 4 (d) 1-3-8, 1- 4-6, 2-2-6, 2-3-4
3. (a) No, because not all sides are the same length or the angles are not equal (b) Yes, because there are two pairs of adjacent sides of equal length (c) Yes, because the sides and angles are equal
4. (i) 2, -15 (ii) 3, -24
5. (a) 1/2 (b) 3/5
6. (a) b = a – 4, d = c/4, m = 4k + 3 (b) w/5 – 2, t = (w – 10)/5
7. 24
8. 1/2 as: 4/4 x 2/4 = 8/16 = 1/2
9. Oranges: 3/4, Blueberry: 1/2, Grape: 1/4
10. 4-4-7, 5-5-5, 6-6-3, 7-7-1 since the length of the two equal sides must add up to more than the length of the third
11. (a) 1920 (b) 4.5 x 10^4
12. (a) a = 4 and b = 3 (b) 7
13. Use algebraic expressions to represent the squares of two consecutive numbers, then expand the parentheses correctly, even if the expressions are not simplified, for example, n^2, (n + 1)^2 either Reasons usually about odd and even numbers, but skip one of the four steps shown above, eg odd^2=odd, even^2=even, odd+even=odd