Everyday Number Skills Quiz

Quiz 10 min Beginner
Test your everyday number skills with eight questions on place value, mental calculations, estimation, inverse operations and reasonableness.
Suitable for
All Ages

Use this Quiz to check your practical number sense and mental mathematics skills.

There are eight multiple choice questions.

The questions cover place value, mental addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, estimation, inverse operations and checking whether an answer is reasonable.

A score of 80 percent or higher is considered a pass.

Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.

After submitting the Quiz, review the explanations even when you answered correctly. They can help strengthen your number sense.

Before you begin

Review Practical Number Sense for Everyday Mathematics if you need to review place value, estimation or reasonableness.

You can also review Use Mental Mathematics for Everyday Calculations for practice with flexible calculation strategies.

Sources and further reading

Choose one answer for each question, then submit the quiz to see your score and feedback.

Question 1: What value does the digit 6 represent in 6,482?
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Question 2: What is 49 + 32?
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Question 3: An item costs 74 units of money and you pay 100. How much change should you receive?
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Question 4: What is 6 × 24?
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Question 5: What is 84 divided by 4?
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Question 6: Which is the most useful estimate for 198 + 304?
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Question 7: A calculator displays 48 × 6 = 2,880. Why should you question the answer?
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Question 8: Which calculation is a useful inverse check for 67 + 28 = 95?
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