Have a go; you can use pen and paper but not a calculator. The 15 minutes allowed is plenty so take your time, read the questions carefully and watch you don't hit the wrong key by mistake like I did.
It's actually just 14 of the 27 questions they were given, but if the following statistics are correct and you have young children, then it's probably time to panic.
Only 20% could convert a temperature in Centigrade to Fahrenheit, despite being given the formula that links them.
Less than 40% could work out what 2.1% of 400 was
One in three could correctly divide 1.4 by 0.1
If it is true that the kids are getting steadily better at Maths each year as the Government claims, then maybe they need to start helping their teachers a bit.
ps A recently qualified Primary school teacher has just emailed me to say that the average score on the test at her school was 226%
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