Survivor Series Level 2

For Year 1 and Year 2 pupils. Curriculum Level 2

Survivor Series . Aotearoa Written by Tamara Jones, Teacher, Farm Cove Intermediate, Auckland. What to do. For pupils.

1. You can work with a friend. 2. Do the questions and enter your answer in your maths book. 3. If you are right you will get the next question. 4. If you are wrong, answer the question again. 5. There are ten questions each day. 6. When you have finished each day you will get the magic password.

7. At the end of the week put the 5 magic code words

together. This will show you where your school’s Maths Week treasure is ! 8. The first 5 questions on each day are easier than the next 5 questions.

Good luck!

‘Aotearoa.’ Kia ora! Are you ready to explore our amazing country? Grab a map, your jandals (or gumboots) and travel on a mathematical journey through New Zealand…you may even get to leave our golden shores if you can survive until Friday!

Monday: Survivor Series

Aotearoa – New Zealand.

There is a myth that Maui, an ancient warrior, trapped the sun to make the days longer. 1. How many hours are in one (1)

day and night?

2. How many days are in one (1)

week?

3. If Maui slowed the sun so that

each day gained two (2)

extra hours, how many extra

hours would there be in one

week?

The kiwi New Zealand’s national bird. It cannot fly, lays massive eggs and is nocturnal.

4. Kiwis have nostrils at the ends of their beaks. How many

nostrils does each bird have?

5. If a Southern Brown Kiwi sleeps

from 7am until 7pm, how many

hours does it sleep for?

6. Kiwis like to live in pairs. How

many make a pair?

7. The Little Spotted Kiwi grows to

25cm in height. The Great

Spotted Kiwi can grow to be

45cm tall. How much taller is a Great Spotted Kiwi?

8. If a North Island Brown Kiwi ate four (4) worms every night

for one (1) week. How many worms would she have eaten?

Aotearoa is famous for sheep farming. There are a lot more sheep in New Zealand than people! Baaaaa 9. If the wool from five (5)

sheep can make one (1)

wooly jumper. How many

sheep are needed to make

two (2) wooly jumpers?

10. If Trev has three hundred (300) Romney sheep on his farm

and buys two hundred (200) more Romney sheep. How

many Romney sheep will Trev have?

11. If each of Trev’s five hundred (500) Romney sheep has two

(2) lambs each. How many lambs would Trev have?

Rugby is New Zealand’s national sport. The All Blacks rugby team are World Champions! They won the championship in 1987 and again in 2011. There are fifteen (15) rugby players on each team. 12. How many players are

on a field in a game of

rugby?

13. A game of rugby lasts

for one (1) hour and

twenty (20) minutes.

How many minutes in

total is a game of

rugby?

14. What shape is a rugby ball?

Survivor Series Level 2 For Year 3 and 4 pupils. Curriculum level 2

Tuesday: Survivor Series – Kiwi Cash, Kai and Climate

Kiwi Currency. In New Zealand the currency used are dollars and cents.

1. How many cents are in one (1) dollar? 2. How many cents are in $2.50? 3. Sir Edmund Hillary, who was a famous Kiwi explorer and was the first person to climb the highest mountain in the world, is on the $5 note. How many cents are in $5? 4. If Matthew went to the shop and spent $20. How many $10 notes would he need?

Kiwi Kai. Kai is food in New Zealand language. Kiwis love to eat fish’n’chips! 5. Abbie buys three (3) pieces of fish for $2 each and one serve of chips for $2. How much will her meal cost her?

6. Abbie buys hokey pokey ice cream for herself and her two brothers from the dairy for dessert. The shop keeper asks her for $7.50. 7. How much does each ice cream cost? 8. How much change would Abbie get from $10? 9. Kumara is a sweet potato. James has two (2) bags of kumara with ten (10) kumara in each bag. How many kumara does James have? 10. Kiwifruit is also called a Chinese gooseberry! Liam has four (4) kiwifruit and shares them with one friend. How many kiwifruit would Liam get?

Kiwi Climate. The climate in New Zealand is warm in the summer and cold in the winter. 11. Does the temperature get hotter or colder the further north you travel in New Zealand? 12. If the temperature in Rotorua is twenty four degrees Celsius (24ºC) and the temperature in Christchurch is twenty degrees Celsius (20ºC). How much colder is it in Christchurch? 13. How many tens are in 24? 14. What is the closest ten to 24? Ka Pai Kiwis! Now go pack your kete and get ready to explore…

Survivor Series Level 2 For Year 3 and 4 pupils. Curriculum level 2

Wednesday: Survivor Series – The North Island.

North Island. The Maori name is Te Ika-a-Māui. The Sky Tower in Auckland is 328 metres tall and took two (2)

years and nine (9) months to be built.

1. Which is taller, the Sky Tower or

the Beehive in Wellington, which is

72 metres tall?

2. Was the time taken to build the Sky

Tower closer to two years or three

years?

3. There are twenty four (24) months

in two (2) years. How many months

in two years and nine months?

4. There are thirty (30) tens in three

hundred (300) and two (2) tens in

twenty (20). How many tens are in

three hundred and twenty eight

(328)?

The Waikato River in the North Island is the longest river in New Zealand. It is 425km long! 5. Is 425 closer to 400 or 500?

How many hundreds are in 425?

Mt Ruapehu is the largest active volcano in Aotearoa. It last erupted in 2007. 6. How many years

ago was that

eruption?

7. If Mt Ruapehu

erupts every ten

(10) years, what

year will it be

when it next

erupts?

8. A volcano can look like the shape of triangle. How many

sides does a triangle have?

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. 9. How many letters are in the word ‘Wellington’?

Approximately 77% of New Zealand’s population live in the North Island. 10. What percentage of New Zealand’s population live in the

South Island?

Survivor Series Level 2 For Year 3 and 4 pupils. Curriculum level 2

Thursday: Survivor Series – The South Island.

South Island. The Maori name is Te Wai Pounamu.

The centre of New Zealand is in Nelson. 1. Does this mean Nelson is at the top of New Zealand, bottom of New Zealand or in the middle of New Zealand? Kaikoura is a town on the east coast that is famous for whale watching. 2. Twelve (12) whales and nine (9) Hector dolphins swim around a boat. If half (½) of the whales swim away. How many whales would be left? 3. If a whale swims 10km every day for three (3) days. How far would the whale have swum? 4.` Five (5) more dolphins join the group. How many dolphins are there? Hagley Park in Christchurch is a very large public park. 5. Karl goes for a thirty (30) minute walk around the park. If he leaves the house at 3:00pm what time would he get home?

The city centre of Dunedin is in the shape of an octagon. 6. How many sides does an octagon have? (Clue: Think of an octopus) The furthest place from the ocean in New Zealand is the Dunstan Ranges in Otago. 7. It is 120km away from the sea. Count in tens backwards from 120 to 60. Foveaux Strait is the area of water between the South Island and Stewart Island. Bluff oysters are grown in this very cold water and are often sold in a dozen. There is twelve in a dozen. 8. If Emma buys two dozen oysters, how many oysters does Emma buy? 9. Emma eats six oysters straight away. How many oysters does she have left? 10. Emma eats the rest of the oysters during the next three days. If she eats the same amount every day, how many oysters does she eat each day?

Fred drives from Cape Reinga at the top of the North Island down the country, sails across Cook Strait and continues south to the Bluff. It takes Fred three (3) days. 11. If Fred leaves on Saturday what day would he arrive in Bluff? 12. Fred decides to drive home on Thursday. What day would he arrive home? 13. Extension: The South Island has a 33% larger land mass than the North Island. Write this percentage as a fraction.

Survivor Series Level 2 For Year 3 and 4 pupils. Curriculum level 2

Friday: Survivor Series – New Zealand and the World

New Zealand and the World

New Zealand is the first country in the world to see the sunrise. 1. If the sun begins to rise at 6am in New Zealand and China is five hours behind New Zealand. What time would it be in China? 2. When Kiwi goes to sleep at 7am, Tui wakes up and starts to sing. If Tui sings till 10am, how long does Tui sing for?

When ringing New Zealand from other countries in the world you must use the dialling code 64 at the start of the phone number. 3. Add these numbers together, what does it equal? 4. What other numbers add to ten? 5. What number comes after sixty four (64)?

New Zealand has four stars on our national flag. Each star has five points. 6. How many star points are on the New Zealand flag? 7. How many sides does a flag have? The Australian flag is very similar to the New Zealand flag, except that it has five (5) stars which all have seven (7) points and one (1) star that has five (5) points. 8. How many stars are on the Australian flag? The Pacific Ocean that surrounds New Zealand is the biggest and deepest ocean in the world. 9. Finn catches seven (7) snapper but is allowed to catch ten (10). How many more snapper can Finn catch? 10. Finn and Warren catch nine (9) snapper each. How many snapper do they catch together?

Steve Fossett was a record-setting pilot, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and also set the world record for flying by himself around the world in a plane. 11. The trip took him 67 hours, which is just under three days. If he took exactly three full days it would have taken him 72 hours. How many hours under three days did Steve take to complete the journey? 12. Steve also sailed around the world in 58 days. Was the plane or boat the fastest vehicle? 13. Did it take Steve closer to one month, two months or three months to sail around the world?

Answers for Teachers. Monday Answers Knowledge required 1. 24 hours Measurement – Time; hours in a day

2. 7 days Measurement – Time; days of week

3. 14 extra hours Number – Multiplication (2 x 7), skip

counting in twos (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14) or addition facts (2 + 2 + 2

+ 2 + 2 + 2 + 2)

4. 2 nostrils General knowledge

5. 12 hours Measurement – Time; hours in a day

6. 2 in a pair General knowledge

7. 20cm Number – Facts to 100, skip counting

in tens, addition (25 + 20).

Measurement – Unit knowledge 8. 28 worms Number – Multiplication (4 x 7), skip counting in four or seven 9. 10 sheep Number – Addition or doubles (5 + 5),

multiplication (2 x 5)

10. 500 Romney sheep Number – Basic facts to ten (3 + 2),

addition to 1000 (200 + 300)

11. 1000 lambs Number – Doubles (5 + 5), facts to

1000, multiplication (2 x 500)

12. 30 rugby players Number – Doubles (15 + 15), addition

facts to 100, skip counting in fives

(15, 20, 25, 30), multiplication (2 x 15)

13. 80 minutes Measurement – Time; minutes and

hours. Number - Addition to 100 (60 +

20)

14. Oval Geometry – Basic shapes

The magic password is Above.

Tuesday Answers Knowledge required 1. 100 cents Number – Money

2. 250 cents Number – Money

3. 500 cents Number – Money

4. 2 $10 notes Number – Money, addition (10 + 10),

skip counting in tens (10, 20)

5. $8 Number - Skip counting in twos (2, 4,

6, 8), multiplication facts (4 x 2)

addition and multiplication facts (2 x

3 = + 2 = )

6. $2.50 Number – Money, facts to hundred (4

x 25) or to ten (4 x 2.50), division by

four

7. $2.50 Number – Money, subtraction facts to

ten (10 – 7.50)

8. 20 kumara Number – Doubles, facts to twenty,

addition (10 + 10), multiplication facts

(2 x 10)

9. 2 kiwifruit Number – Division facts to ten (4

divided by 2), subtraction facts to ten

(4 – 2)

10. Hotter General knowledge

The closer to the equator, the hotter the temperature. The closer to the poles the colder the temperature. 11. 4 degrees celcius Number – Subtraction facts to 100 (24

– 4 or 24 – 20), addition facts to 100

(20 + 4). Measurement – Temperature

units

12. 2 tens Number – Place value and skip

counting in tens (10, 20)

13. 20 Number – Place value and facts to 10

The magic password is your.

Wednesday Answers Knowledge required 1. Sky Tower General Knowledge. Number -

Bigger and smaller comparisons.

Measurement – length units 2. 3 years Measurement – Time; months in a

year. Number – Facts to twelve

3. 33 months Number – Doubles and addition (12 +

12 + 9), addition using tidy tens (12 +

12 + 10 – 1 or 12 + 12 + 6 + 3),

counting on

4. 32 tens Number – Place value, addition of

given information (30 + 2)

5. Closer to 400 Number – Place value to 1000, facts

to 100

6. 4 hundreds Number – Place value

7. 6 years ago Number – Subtraction facts to twenty

(13 - ? = 7), addition facts to twenty (7

+ ? = 13). Measurement – Time in yrs

8. 2017 Number – Addition (7 + 10), place val

9. 3 sides Geometry – Basic two dimensional

shapes

10. 10 letters Number – Counting one to one

11. 23% Number – Percentages, addition to

100 (77 + ? = 100)

The magic password is classroom.

Thursday Answers Knowledge required 1. Middle Geometry – Mathematical language

2. 6 whales Number – Doubles and halves of

numbers to 20 and division facts to

twelve

3. 30km Number – Multiplication (10 x 3), skip

counting in tens (10, 20, 30), addition

(10 + 10 + 10)

Measurement – Length units 4. 14 dolphins Number – Addition facts to twenty,

counting on

5. 3:30pm Measurement – Time

6. 8 sides Geometry – Two dimensional shapes

7. 120,110,100,90,80,70,60 Number – Skip counting

backwards in tens

8. 24 oysters Number – Doubles (12 + 12),

multiplication (2 x 12),

addition using tidy tens (12 + 10 + 2), counting on (12..13, 14, 15… ) 9. 18 oysters Number – Subtraction using tidy tens

(24 – 4 – 2),

counting backwards (24..23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18) 10. 6 oysters Number – Division (18 divided by 3),

multiplication (? x 3 = 18), fractions

(1/3 of 18)

11. Tuesday Measurement – Days of the week

12. Sunday Measurement – Days of the week

13. 1/3 Number – Fractions to percentage

conversion

The magic password is white.

Friday. Answers Knowledge required 1. 1am Number – Subtraction of numbers to

ten (6 – 5).

Measurement –Time 2. 3 hours Number – Addition facts to ten (7 +

3).

Measurement – Time; hours in a day 3. 10 Number – Addition facts to ten

4. 1 and 9 Number – Addition facts to ten

2 and 8 3 and 7 5 and 5 5. 65 Number – Facts to 100

6. 20 Number – Addition (5 + 5 + 5 + 5),

counting on (5 + 6, 7, 8, 9…),

multiplication (4 x 5)

7. 4 sides Geometry – Basic two dimensional

shapes

8. 6 stars Number – Addition facts to ten (5 + 1)

9. 3 more snapper Number – Addition facts to ten,

counting on (7..8, 9, 10), subtraction

facts (10 – 7)

10. 18 snapper Number – Addition facts to twenty,

doubles (9 + 9), multiplication (2 x 9)

11. 5 hours Number – Addition facts to 100,

counting on (67…68, 69, 70, 71, 72)

12. The plane is faster General knowledge

Measurement – Time; days and hours. 13. Two months Measurement – Time; average days

in a month.

The magic password is board.