A new charity, National Numeracy, recently announced that the number of adults with poor numeracy skills has reached 17 million in England. They also revealed that in a poll of 2,000 adults only 56% said they would be embarrassed to say they were bad at maths.

This week is also DANA’s Brain Awareness Week, a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. So why not test your maths skills and train your brain? Try our quick maths quiz below.

1. If an item costing £80 is reduced by 20%, how much does it cost?

2. What does (2 x 1.5) + (4 x 2.5) = ?

3. If ¼ of the swimming class of 28 children have already got out of the pool, how many remain in the pool?

4. If a triangle has one interior angle of 45 degrees and another one of 55 degrees, how many degrees is the third interior angle?

5. If an item costing £12 last year now costs £15.60, by what percentage has it increased?

 

 

 

Answers: 1. £64 / 2. 13 / 3. 21 children / 4. 80 degrees / 5. 30%