1. S.O.D.A. Start Of Day Activity
Morning registration mathematics activity
Aligned to the Renewed Framework for Mathematics
Stoke-on-Trent Primary Maths Team

2. S.O.D.A. Start Of Day Activity
WHAT IS IT?
10 mathematics questions per day based on the Renewed Framework for Mathematics.
Questions 1-5 consolidate maths from the previous unit.
Questions 6-10 are based on the previous year’s coverage of the next unit (following Block sequence A B C D E).
This will support you in pitching the learning appropriately for the next unit and gathering evidence for APP.
WHAT IS IT NOT?
SODA is NOT intended to be used during any part of the daily mathematics lesson.
It is an ADDITIONAL resource to support the CONSOLIDATION of learning which has taken place previously.

3. S.O.D.A. Start Of Day Activity
WHEN?
During the registration period at the start of the day.
Pupils could record their answers in a ‘SODA’ book.
Go through the questions and discuss strategies the children used with the pupils during registration.
Ensure that you model the correct mathematical vocabulary and always encourage the children to use it correctly.
HOW?
Use SODA as it stands or personalise the questions for your pupils by adapting / replacing them.

4. Councillors on Line
Year 5, Block C, Unit 3
Questions based on Year 5, Block B, Unit 3
Questions based on Year 4, Block D, Unit 3

5. Monday 1st June 2009 Shopping centre £1.30 School 35p Cinema 50p
1. Two square tiles are placed side by side. How many
square tiles are needed to surround them completely?
2. What are the properties of a rectangle?
3. Draw an accurate rectangle.
4. Name a 3D shape with a rectangular face.
5. Name another 3D shape with a rectangular face.
Work out the price of the following journeys:
Single Bus Fares From My House
6. To the swimming pool and back.
7. Three tickets to the swimming pool.
8. 8 tickets to the cinema.
tickets to school.
10. 2 tickets to the cinema and 2 tickets
to school.
Shopping centre £1.30
School 35p
Cinema 50p
Swimming pool £1.20
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

6. Tuesday 2nd June 2009
1. Three square tiles are placed side by side. How
many square tiles are needed to surround them?
2. Describe the properties of a tetrahedron.
3. Draw the net of a tetrahedron.
4. How do equilateral triangles differ from
isosceles triangles? 5. Name one more difference?
6. Janice takes 5 minutes to clean a table. She wants to
know how many minutes it will take to wash eight
windows at this rate. What must she do to calculate
the problem?
7. Roger has 1 litre of milk. He fills some glasses by
pouring 100mls into each glass. How many glasses
does he fill?
8. Roger drops 3 glasses on the floor, how many mls of
milk is he left with if he starts with 2 litres?
9. Evelyn pours 250mls from a 2 litre bottle of pop. How
many litres is she left with?
10. Divide a 2 litre bottle of pop by four children equally. How
many millilitres of pop do they get each? How many
litres do they each get?
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

7. Wednesday 3rd June 2009
1. Are all numbers which end in the digits 48 multiples of
4? Explain mathematically how you know
2. 417 895 men and 176 243 women watch ‘match of the
day’. Roughly, how many viewers are there altogether?
3. a multiplication calculation gives a product between
2000 and 2200
4. What is the most difficult calculation involving decimals
you can do in your head?
5. What is the most difficult calculation involving decimals
you can do on paper?
6. Jack’s footprint is 150 cm. A giant’s footprint is 5 times
as long. Find the length of the giant’s footprint in cm.
7. How many metres is the giant’s footprint?
8. The giant makes his own shoelaces. Each lace is 55cm
long. How many pairs of shoelaces can he make from a
strip of leather 6 metres long?
9. How much leather will be left over?
10. A length of string measuring 2.5m is shared equally
between 10 people. How much string do they each get?
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

8. Thursday 4th June 2009
1. Four square tiles are placed side by side. How
many square tiles are needed to surround them
completely?
2. two numbers with a product of 1600
3. You save £1.32 per week. How many weeks is it before
you can buy a book costing £18.49?
4. Explain how you used your calculator to work it out.
5. How much money would you have left?
Use an efficient written method to add and subtract the calculations below.
less than 871
minus 98
9. The sum of 874 and 329
more than 333 is
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

9. Friday 5th June 2009 1. Write the first 10 multiples of 6.
2. Write the digit sum of each multiples of 6. What
pattern do you notice?
3. What is the digit sum of the 13th, 16th and 19th
numbers in the sequence?
4. What is the product of 12 and 8?
5. What are the factors of 96?
6. How much would two cans
of cola cost?
7. What is the total price of
a burger and an apple?
8. The total price of 2 burgers
and an apple? £ £ p
9. You give the shopkeeper a five pound note to pay for
an apple. How much change do you get?
10. You pay for an apple with a two pound coin. How
much change would you receive?
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

10. Monday 8th June 2009 1. You need six drinking straws each the same
length. Cut four of them in half.
You now have 10 straws, 2 long and 8 short Arrange your 10 straws to make FOUR
squares, all the same size.
Draw a diagram to show your solution
2. Angles are measured in ?
3. How many degrees are there in a full turn?
4. An angle smaller than 90 degrees is an ______ angle
5. There are _______ degrees on a straight line.
6. Angles >90 are know as ________ angles.
7. Estimate the size of the angle.
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

11. Tuesday 9th June 2009 1. 7.3 + 8.5 2. Half of 96 3. Half of 0.96
4. I think of a number, halve it, then add 0.6 I get
the answer What number did I start with? A
5. How did you work out your answer?
6. Find the area of each
shape on drawing A.
7. Find the perimeter of
the pentagon.
8. What is the perimeter of
the shape below?
50mm
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

12. Wednesday 10th June 2009
– 14.2
÷ ? = ? Complete this 3 different ways
4. How many numbers < 100 are multiples of 3
and 5?
5. 0.? X ? = 2 How many different ways can this be
completed?
6. Round 2.8 to the nearest integer.
7. What does the digit 6 represent in the following
numbers: 6.7l, 0.6km 0.06Km?
8. Which is larger: 200g or 0.199kg ?
9. How do you know?
10. How many grams is equivalent to 0.35kg?
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

13. Thursday 11th June 2009 1. What number added to 0.67 gives 1?
2. I think of a number, halve it, then add 0.6 I get the answer
2.6 . What number did I start with?
3. What number is exactly halfway between 0.8 and 1.44?
4. Use a calculator to solve  × 6 = 6272
5 . Use a calculator to solve ( ÷ 5) – 23 = 30
6. Write the
correct times.
7. It takes 45 minutes to walk to the park. I need to be
there by 2.20pm. What time do I need to leave?
8. It takes 1 hour and 20 minutes to travel to London
from Stoke-on-Trent. The train makes an emergency
stop which lasts for 23 minutes. If I left Stoke-on-
Trent on the 9.15am train, what time would I arrive in
London?
Year 5 Block C Unit 3

14. Friday 12th June 2009
1. What is exactly half way between 0.58 and 1.58?
2. If possible, draw a pentagon with 3 right angles.
3. Draw an irregular trapezium.
4. How is a rhombus different to a parallelogram?
5. How is a kite different to a square?
Which would you prefer and why?
6. ¾ of a piece of cake or 7/10s?
7. 1/5 of a litre of pop or 199mls?
8. How could you write 6.5litres a different way?
9. What about 250 millilitres?
10. Put the following measurements in order from
smallest to largest:
6 litres, 60ml, ¼ l, litres, mls
Year 5 Block C Unit 3