Road Signs on the Planet Zorg

The road signs on planet Zorg are quite extra - terrestrially extra - ordinairy. Unlike the road signs on Planet Earth, which generally are used to indicate danger, the road signs on Planet Zorg are multi - coloured and multi - flavoured. Quite simply, they're much more fun ! Signs for zebra crossings, for example, make roaring sounds like zebras, pelican crossings screech like pelicans, of course. Signs showing hill gradients go up and down like hills and hump - back bridges have hump backs. Some of the road signs on the Planet Zorg are even tasty : the lollipop man holds a lollipop, naturally and his lollipops come in various flavours - strawberry, raspberry and chocolate. Traffic light road signs flash like traffic lights, red, amber and green. There are signs for this ... and signs for that - signs for this way and signs for that. Slow down signs slow down. The motorway signs move even faster. Turn left signs, turn left and right for right. The road signs for the Planet Zorg show astronauts where to park their rockets and even the signs for car parks always have car parking spaces, despite the no parking signs. The white lines on the Planet Zorg are made of icing sugar - the roads made of liquorice. Nobody ever grazes their knees on the pavements, or crashes into lamp posts because the lamp posts are made of sugary honeycomb and candy floss. Road signs on the Planet Zorg are really cakes of all shapes and sizes. There are gateaux cattle grates and roly poly roundabouts, which spin around and around. The road signs for the garden shops smell sweet and flowery ... There road signs show "DANGER - CRATER AHEAD !" but don't worry close by are hospital signs which miraculously cure themselves and you too if you accidentally slip and fall into one of them. The accident and emergency signs jump back up when they are knocked down or broken without so much as a scratch. Give way signs give way and overtaking signs overtake, of course.

Road Sign Mathematics Game

1. There was one road sign every 500 metres on the Planet Zorg, which was 25, 230 long. To the nearest whole number, how many road signs were there in total ?

2. Unlike the road signs on Planet Earth, which generally are used to indicate danger, the road signs on Planet Zorg are multi - coloured and multi - flavoured. Quite simply, they're much more fun ! Each road sign had 8 colours - how many colours is that in total ?

3. The signs for zebra crossings, had 5 stripes and the pelican crossings had

4. There was one zebra crossing every 200 metres and one pelican crossing every 10 metres on the Planet Zorg, which was 25, 230 long. How many stripes is that in total ?

4. The tasty strawberry, raspberry and chocolate lollipop road signs on the Planet Zorg were in a ratio of 2 : 5 : 8. If there were 20 strawberry lollipop road signs, calculate how may of each flavour there were.

5. The traffic lights flashed red, amber and green every 3 minutes. A Zorgian day had 45 hours and each hour had 45 minutes - how many times did the Zorgian traffic lights flash ?

© Jacqueline Richards 2005