Mag the Magician was a magical chap, but the one thing he couldn’t do was keep on his hat. He was so busy jumping about, that he magicked everything … including the cat ! When he waved his magic wand, stardust made his magic grand. Very soon, he was quite surprised, to see everything around him metamorphisised. He even managed to spill a bit, of magic performing his magic tricks. In the kitchen without him looking, Everything started magically cooking. He didn’t notice, but even the bugs, started magically hopping on magic rugs. The vacuum cleaner started to work by itself, and the books tidied themselves up on the bookshelf. I bet you wish you had a magic wand like this, that would clean the house in a house – wizardry whizz.
Wizardry Maths
1. If Mag’s magic wand halved the dust and cobwebs, how many of the 500 cobwebs were left ?
2. If the magic from Mag’s magic wand polished one glass in 0.2 minutes, how long did it take to polish all 600 ?
3. If the magic from Mag’s magic wand cut one square metre of grass in 3 minutes (and the lawn was 1 km wide x 1 km long), how long did it take to mow all the grass ? Give your answer in minutes, hours and day.
4. If the magic from Mag’s magic wand trimmed the 120 cm high rosebushes by one third – how big did they become ?
5. If the magic from Mag’s magic wand lifted 80% of the 500 crumbs, how may were left on the floor ?
6. If the magic from Mag’s magic wand made the bugs on the rug jump four times higher, and they usually leapt 1.2 cm, how high could they then jump ?
7. The magic from Mag’s magic wand made the washing jump magically onto the washing line from the basket, as well ! If one jumper was 50 cm wide, how many could fit along the 50 m washing line ?
8. If the magic from Mag’s magic wand made the flowers in the garden grow three times as quickly. Usually they grew at a speed of 2 cm / per day. After a week of magic, how high were they ?
9. Mag the Magician cast one spell every three hours – how many spells is that in one day ?
10. Thank heavens Mag the Magician’s magic metamorphisised the washing up ! There were 150 bubbles, but after his magic started working 8 times as many – how many is that ?
11. Mag the Magician magicked the cake baking in the oven to become five times it’s normal 2 kg size – what did it then weigh ?
12. Mag the Magician magicked the frying pan and the pancakes he was cooking – they usually flipped twice every 30 seconds, but with magic, flipped 6 times more often.
a) How often did they flip in 5 minutes before
b) and after magic ?
13. Mag the Magician magicked five times as many cakes. There were originally 20 baking in the oven until Mag’s magic started to work – how many then ?
14. Mag the Magician had a magic white rabbit in his pocket that hopped 4 times every minute until the magic started to work – and he jumped 7 times this – how many jumps is that per minute ?
15. Mag the Magician magicked some more … and all the toys jumped off the floor ! If it took 45 seconds for one teddy bear to jump into the toy box, how long did it take 15 ? Give your answer in seconds and minutes.
Spelling Whizz
When Mag the Magician waved his wand, something magical happened – the letters in the following words disappeared. What 3 letters do you think are missing ?
ical
net
azine
isterial
got
ic
netic
nate
nanimity
netism
nification
nifying glass
nificent
nitude
Whirly World Word Game
All of the following list are taken from the above poem but when Mag’s magic swirled, all of the letters in the following words twirled. Can you help Mag to sort out his jumbled up mix up ?
tha
gmicaina
lamigac
veryheting
dawn
tasrdust
rpsurised
pills
repfirmong
tircks
tikchen
oocking
ophping
koobs
okshboelf
oshue
wzardiry
hwizz
Game 1 Answers : 1. 250; 2. 120 mins; 3. 3 000 000 mins = 50, 000 hours = 2, 083 days; 4. 80 cm; 5. 100; 6. 4.8 cm; 7. 100; 8. 42cm; 9. 8; 10. 1200; 11. 10kg ; 12. a) 20 b) 120; 13. 100; 14. 28; 15. 675 secs = 11.25 mins
Game 2 Answers : magical; magnet; magazine; magisterial; maggot; magic; magnetic; magnate; magnanimity; magnetism; magnification; magnifying glass; magnificent; magnitude
Game 3 Answers : hat; magician; magical; everything; wand; stardust; surprised; spill; performing; tricks; kitchen; cooking; hopping; books; bookshelf; house; wizardry; whizz
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