CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY MATHEMATICS 5: TEACHER’S RESOURCE
Numbers round to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 4 B
(7 different numbers).
Think like a mathematician
Check your progress
a Isosceles or scalene.
1 a 3 ones b 3 hundredths
b No triangle can have two right angles.
c 3 tenths
c No triangle can have three right angles.
2 a 103 507.9
One hundred and three thousand, d Sentences describing the possible types of
five hundred and seven point nine angles in different types of triangles.
b 660 606.06 5 a equilateral b isosceles
Six hundred and sixty thousand,
c scalene
six hundred and six point zero six
6 No, it is not possible.
3 a 0.3 b 5.55
4 a 5m b 17 cm Exercise 2.2
c 10 m d 11 cm 1 a 1 b 0 c 0
5 G d 1 e 0 f 3
6 a 20 000 b 5430 2 a 1 b 1 c 1
7 10 d 1 e 5
8 Sofia 0.35 Arun 3.5 3 a Any colour except black.
Marcus 35 Zara 0.53 b Black
c Impossible, the pattern cannot have more
than two lines of symmetry.
Unit 2 2D shape and 4 A orange B blue
pattern C red D purple
E blue F red
Getting started
G green
1 A, D and E
5
2 3
3 Any pattern of tessellating rectangles.
4 4
Exercise 2.1
1 B, D and E
2 a equilateral triangle
b isosceles triangle
c equilateral triangle
d scalene triangle
e isosceles triangle
3 a A triangle with two lines the same length.
b A triangle with no lines the same length.
c Learner’s own answer.
2 Cambridge Primary Mathematics 5 – Wood & Low © Cambridge University Press 2021