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The four operations: Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (0580) practice questions

The four operations (C1.6, Core) is part of Number (Core). STEM Exam Builder holds 330 past-paper questions on it for Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (0580), from papers set between 2010 and 2025, each with its mark scheme. 13 of them are in the sample set visitors can open in the builder.

What it covers

The questions are sorted into 20 skills; you can tick single skills in the builder:

• Add fractions with unlike denominators
• Find the fraction remaining after two uses
• Subtract fractions with brackets
• Find the whole from a remaining fraction
• Fraction of an amount
• Divide mixed numbers
• Fraction of a remainder
• Multiply a fraction by a mixed number
• Multiply decimals using a known product
• Insert brackets to make a calculation true
• Missing number in an arithmetic calculation
• Difference between two directed numbers
• Add and subtract directed numbers
• Multiply and divide directed numbers
• Evaluate using the order of operations
• Divide two fractions
• Four operations word problem
• Whole-number arithmetic without a calculator
• Add or subtract mixed numbers
• Multiply two fractions

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Questions by level

Each question carries a level, C, B or A: the grade it is pitched at.

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Try sample questions

These questions are in the sample set anyone can open in the builder without an account. Each opens with its mark scheme on the flip side.

• Sample question 1
• Sample question 2
• Sample question 3

The link opens the builder on The four operations, Paper 1. Visitors can browse the sample set; building and downloading a paper needs a plan.