Missing Words, Proportion and Parallel Lines

Simon Deacon
2 min readMay 22, 2024

Good to hear that students are remaining positive about both SATS and GCSE exams. It’s just about time to relax, and I’m sure all your hard work has paid off — enjoy school visits, fun projects, and look forward to the summer!

Key Stage 2 (years 3–6)

I hope you enjoyed last week’s work on making sense of sentences … don’t forget there’s quite a few additional worksheets in the archive.

This week can you complete the paragraphs using the word bank — not as easy as it looks :-)

Key Stage 3 (years 7–9)

Someone once said that maths is the only subject where it’s normal to buy 47 watermelons … and they were referring to ‘proportion’ questions.

Here’s a worksheet, video and answers to work through (while I go and bake some cakes).

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Simon Deacon

3minutemaths posts are light hearted, fairly punchy, occasionally funny, encouraging reads. Probably in the educational space. Sometimes not.