Agony Ant

Agony Ant was in agony again. He'd spent ages agonising about everything - it really was a pain. When Agony had a bad knee, no wonder he wasn't very good company ! He agonised from morning until night ... For Agony Ant, everything was an agonising decision, such as whether to first do multiplication or division maths revision. He agonised about this and agonised about that ... he agonised to the dog as well as to the cat. You've never heard an ant moan so much, as Agony Ant when he'd slipped in slutch. He ate so much mud, he couldn't crawl as ants should. He munched so much grass that his agonising quickly grew ... soon his agony was multiplied by two. Agony Ant agonised a rant ... he jumped up and down with ants in his pants !

The Agonising Maths Quiz

1. If there were 500 ants on one anthill, how many ants were there on 20 ?

2. One anthill was 75 cm high, how far did the ant travel is he had gone 4 / 5 ths of the way up ?

3. If the ant hiked 25 cm up the anthill, what decimal of the whole height had travelled ?

4. If the ant travelled at a speed of 2 cm / minute - how long did it take him to a) get to the top ? b) get to the other side ?

5. If the ant slipped downhill, travelling twice as quickly, how long did it take him a) to get from the top to the bottom ? b) to get to the other side ?

6. The ant agonised about his maths homework ... he spent 30 minutes monaing to the cat - three times longer than he spent moaning to the dog. How long did he spend agonising therefore ?

7. The agonising ant bored a hole in the anthill ... if he dug at a speed of 2.5 cm per 5 minutes, how long did it take for the hole to be 10 cm deep ?

Agony Ant's "Bor" - ing Hole

Add the letters B - O - R to complete the words.

__ __ __ e __ __ __ dello __ __ __ der __ __ __ derline __ __ __ edom __ __ __ row a __ __ __ t __ __ __ ough __ __ __ n tam __ __ __ ine

Agony Ant's Bony Knobbly Knees

Add either "- ney", " - ny" to complete the words below :

acrimo__ __ hon__ __ bun__ __ pho __ __ __ fun __ __ gran__ __ pen__ __ sto__ __ __ bon __ __ alimo__ __ a __ __ ma __ __ sun__ __ bo__ __ brai__ __ can__ __ ceremo__ __ cro__ __

Making Mountains Out of Molehills

In each of the following examples, the size of one of the mounts is given. Can you work out, from the mathematical data given, what the other should be ?

1. 15x-----=75,000

2. 1.5x------=75cm

3. -----/10=4

4. 50 000 x 5 000=

5. 8 x 20 =

6. ----- x 5.2 = 78cm

© Jacqueline Richards 2007

1. 500 x 20 = 10,000 2. 4 (75 / 5 = 15) = 60 3. 0.33 4. a) 75 / 2 = 37.5 mins b) 75 mins 5. a) 4 / (75 / 2 = 37.5) = 9.375 mins b) 9.375 + 2 / (75 / 2 = 37.5 = 18.75) = 28.125 mins 6. 30 / 3 = 10 mins 7. 5 (10 / 2.5 = 4) = 20 mins

Answers : acrimony; honey; bunny; phoney; funny; granny; penny; stoney ; bonny; alimony; any; many; sunny; bony; brainy; canny; ceremony; crony

Answers : Mountains Out of Molehills : 1. 15 x 5000 = 75, 000 2. 1.5 x 50 = 75 cm 3. 40 000 / 10 000 = 4 4. 50 000 x 5000 = 2.5000000 e 5. 8 x 20 = 160 cm 6. 15 x 5.2 = 78 cm