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    Goldilocks helped Mrs. Bear wash dishes after breakfast, including cups, bowls, and spoons. She then made the beds with sheets, pillows, and blankets. Finally, she set the dinner table with knives, forks, spoons, plates, and cups. Snow White had to wash clothes for the seven dwarves, with each needing 3 shirts and 2 pairs of trousers. She also had to clean their shoes. The prince searched the town for Cinderella, visiting houses with girls. He found her at the last house. All the girls were then invited to the wedding, where the shoemaker had to make shoes for each girl.

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    Goldilocks helped Mrs. Bear wash dishes after breakfast, including cups, bowls, and spoons. She then made the beds with sheets, pillows, and blankets. Finally, she set the dinner table with knives, forks, spoons, plates, and cups. Snow White had to wash clothes for the seven dwarves, with each needing 3 shirts and 2 pairs of trousers. She also had to clean their shoes. The prince searched the town for Cinderella, visiting houses with girls. He found her at the last house. All the girls were then invited to the wedding, where the shoemaker had to make shoes for each girl.

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    Goldilocks helped Mrs. Bear wash dishes after breakfast, including cups, bowls, and spoons. She then made the beds with sheets, pillows, and blankets. Finally, she set the dinner table with knives, forks, spoons, plates, and cups. Snow White had to wash clothes for the seven dwarves, with each needing 3 shirts and 2 pairs of trousers. She also had to clean their shoes. The prince searched the town for Cinderella, visiting houses with girls. He found her at the last house. All the girls were then invited to the wedding, where the shoemaker had to make shoes for each girl.

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    Goldilocks

    As a punishment Goldilocks had to help Mrs Bear for a


    day. First she had to wash up their cups, bowls and
    spoons after breakfast.

    1. How many things did she wash up?


    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Then she had to put 2 sheets, 2 pillows and a blanket on


    each bed.

    2. How many: pillows _______


    blankets _______
    sheets _________
    Did she need?
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Mrs Bear said she could stay for dinner if she put the
    knives, forks, spoons, plates and cups on the table.

    3. How many: knives _____


    forks ______
    spoons _____
    plates ______
    cups ______
    did she put out?

    How many things were on the table altogether? ________

    1
    Snow White

    Snow White is doing the washing. Each Dwarf needs 3


    shirts and 2 pairs of trousers washed.

    1. How many things will she have to wash? ________

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The washing machine only holds 10 things in 1 wash.

    2. How many washes will she need to do? ______

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    3. If she puts 2 pegs on each item of clothing, how many


    pegs will she need? _______

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Snow White sorts the socks into pairs. She finds 30


    socks.

    4. How many pairs can she make? ______

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Next she cleans their shoes.

    5. How many shoes must she clean? _______

    2
    Prince Charming and Cinderella (1)

    Cinderella lost her glass slipper. The Prince searched the


    town for her. There are 30 houses in the town, 20 houses
    have 2 girls in them and 10 houses have 3 girls. He found
    Cinderella in the last house.

    1. How many girls live in the town?

    2. How many feet had tried on the slipper?

    3. How many toes had been in the slipper?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    All the girls were invited to the wedding and had to have
    new shoes made.

    4. How many shoes did the shoemaker have to make?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    He could make 10 shoes a day.

    5. How many days did it take him to make all the shoes?

    3
    Prince Charming and Cinderella (2)

    Cinderella and her Prince are having a party. They send


    out 16 invitations. Each one is for 2 people.

    1. How many people did they invite? _______

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Half the people said they could not come.

    2. How many people were at the party? ______


    (don’t forget Cinders and her Prince)

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    They told the cook to make sure everyone had:
    2 sausages; 2 pieces of pizza; 1 beef burger and lots of
    chips.

    3. How many: sausages _____


    Beef burgers _____
    Pizza ______ (1pizza =6 pieces)
    did he cook?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    They had a big cake cut into 20 pieces. Everyone had a


    piece.

    4. How many pieces were left? _____

    4
    Three Billy Goats Gruff

    The 3 goats trotted across the bridge.

    1. How many feet trotted across the bridge? _____

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    They met the 3 little pigs. Now there was double the
    number of feet trotting down the road.

    2. How many feet are there now? _____

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    They found a basket of 25 apples. Each goat ate 2 apples


    and each pig ate 3 apples.

    3. How many apples were eaten? ______

    4. How many apples were left? _______

    5
    Jack and the Beanstalk

    The hen that Jack stole from the Giant laid 1 egg on a
    Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 2 eggs on the other
    days.

    1. How many eggs does she lay at the weekend?

    2. How many eggs does she lay in a week?

    3. How many eggs does she lay in a fortnight?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Each egg weighs 20g and is worth £20.

    4. How much do 5 eggs weigh?

    5. How many eggs would weigh 200g?

    6. How many eggs can I buy for £100?

    7. How much would Jack get a week by selling the eggs?

    Jack decided to have a special offer week and sold his


    eggs at 3 for the price of 2.

    8. How much would you pay for 3 eggs?

    9. I have £80 – how many eggs could I buy?

    6
    Aladdin

    Aladdin had 2 palaces, each one had 10 cleaners, 2 cooks


    and 5 waiters.

    1. How many people worked in 1 palace?

    2. How many people worked for him altogether?

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Cleaners were paid £10


    Cooks were paid £20
    Waiters were paid £15

    3. How many cleaners were there altogether?

    4. How much did he pay altogether for cleaning?

    5. How many cooks were there altogether?

    6. How much did he pay altogether for cooking?

    7. How many waiters were there altogether?

    8. How much did he pay the waiters altogether?

    9. What was most expensive: cleaning, cooking or the waiters?

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