INTERNATIONAL SINGAPORE MATHS COMPETITION

2021

Primary 2
1 hour 30 minutes

Instructions to participants

1. Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so.

2. Attempt ALL 25 questions.

3. Write your answers neatly in the Answer Sheet provided.

4. Marks are awarded for correct answers only.

5. All figures are not drawn to scale.

6. No calculators may be used.

Questions in Section A carry 2 marks each, questions in Section B carry

4 marks each and questions in Section C carry between 6 to 10 marks
each.

Jointly organised by

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Section A:
Each of the questions 1 to 10 carries 2 marks.

1. This is a picture of a child’s bed.

Which of the following could be the height from the top of the mattress to the floor?

Choose:
1) 4 cm 2) 40 cm 3) 4 m 4) 40 m

2. During Physical Exercise lesson, Coach lays out 15 hoops in a straight line on the
ground. Then he removed the 9th hoop and the 12th hoop. He wants his pupils to hop
and land inside the hoops to get across. Each hop must be of equal distance. No one
can hop over more than 6 hoops at a time. Into which hoop must his pupils land in
their first hop?

1st 15th

Choose:
1) 1st 2) 2nd 3) 3rd 4) 4th 5) 5th 6) 6th

3. Two girls (Alice and Brenda) and two boys (Chris and Dillon) each travelled either
by aeroplane; by train; by car or by boat during their holidays.
Alice travelled by boat.
None of the boys travelled by car.
Chris did not travel by train.
What did Dillon travel by?

Choose:
1) Aeroplane 2) Boat 3) Car 4) Train

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4. Which ONE of the given shapes below is NOT divided into thirds?

A B C D

5. Which ONE of the given shapes below is NOT divided into quarters?

A B C D

6. Coco, Didi and Elle have $63 altogether. Coco has twice as much as Didi.
Didi has twice as much as Elle. How much money does Didi have?

Ans: $______

7. Max is 10 years older than Helen. Next year, Max will be 3 times as old as Helen.
How old is Helen now?

Ans: ______ years old

8. There is a queue at Yummy Chicken Rice stall. The person who is 3 places in front of
the 5th person in the queue is 6 places ahead of the last person in the queue.
How many people are in the queue?

Ans: ______ people

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9. Study the given picture chart.

5
The position of is ( 2, 4 ).

The position of is ( 4, 3). 4

Give the position of . 3

2
Ans: ( ____ , ____ )
1

1 2 3 4 5

10. How many bricks are needed to repair the wall?

Ans: ______ bricks

Section B
Each of the questions 11 to 20 carries 4 marks.

11. There are some parked cars in two Parking Zones, A and B. If a car from Zone A
moves over and parks in Zone B, there will be 3 times as many cars in Zone B as
there will be in Zone A. If a car from Zone B moves over and parks in Zone A, there
will be equal number of cars in both zones. How many cars are there in both zones
together?

Ans: ______ cars

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12. Violet sells red, pink and yellow roses. There are 76 red and pink roses together.
There are 96 red and yellow roses together. There are 140 pink and yellow roses
together. How many times as many yellow roses as red roses does Violet have?

Ans: ______ times

13. Postman Pat is weighing four parcels, A, B, C and D.

A is heavier than B.
B is lighter than C.
C is heavier than A.
D is the heaviest.
Arrange the four parcels in order from the heaviest to the lightest.

Ans: ____, ____, ____, ____

14. Vo asked 3 of his friends to guess his 3-digit code number.

Ken guessed 357. He had 2 correct digits and both in the correct places.
Leo guessed 740. He had 2 corrects digits, but only 1 of them is in the correct place.
Mik guessed 497. He had 2 correct digits, but only 1 of them is in the correct place.
What is Vo’s 3-digit code number?

Ans: ______

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For Questions 15 and 16

In the school’s trophies display cupboard were many trophies of Gold, Silver and
Bronze. Hanah and Sarah each made a picture chart of trophies in the same
cupboard as shown below.

Hanah use the symbol to represent a number of trophies.

Sarah used the symbol to represent another number of trophies.

Sarah had not yet filled the Bronze part of her chart.

Hanah’s Chart Sarah’s Chart

Gold trophies Gold

trophies
Silver trophies Silver
trophies
Bronze trophies Bronze
trophies

15. There are 48 Gold trophies in the cupboard.

What number did the symbol represent?

Ans: ______

16. How many must Sarah draw to represent the number of Bronze trophies in the
cupboard?

Ans: ______

17. Alvin is colouring a strip of paper 140 cm long divided into segments of 5 cm as
shown. The segments are to be coloured in order of red, blue and yellow repeatedly.
How many red segments will there be?

Ans: ______ red segments 5 cm 5 cm 5 cm 5 cm

Red Yellow Blue Red

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2 3 6
18a) Fill in the blanks: + + =
7 7

What is the sum of the answers in the two shaded blanks?

Ans: ______

1 5 2
b) Fill in the blanks. – – =
9 9

What is the sum of the answers in the two shaded blanks?

Ans: ______

19. The 3D solid is made of cubes placed on top or next to each other.
How many cubes are there altogether?

Ans: ______ cubes

20. A durian plantation in Malaysia sent 800 durians to be sold in Singapore.

The durians were transported by 5 trucks.
The first two trucks transported a total of 310 durians.
The 2nd and 3rd trucks transported a total of 275 durians.
The 3rd and 4th trucks transported a total of 330 durians.
The 4th and 5th trucks transported a total of 345 durians.
How many more durians were transported by the 1st truck than 5th truck?

Ans: ______ durians

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Section C
Questions 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 carry 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks respectively.

21a) Study the given figures.

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Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5

Which of the following is the correct figure for Figure 5? (3 marks)

Choose:

A B C

b) Study the given figures.

Which of the following is the correct missing figure? (3 marks)

Choose:

D E F G H

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22. Fill in the blanks in the problem below:

4 0
– 6 2
2 7 4
+ 4 6
6 2

a) What is the sum of the answers in the 3 white blanks? (3 marks)

Ans: ______

b) What is the sum of the answers in the 5 shaded blanks? (4 marks)

Ans: ______

23a) Vin used some wires to make the following patterns.

Which of the following patterns uses the shortest length of wire? (2 marks)

Pattern A

Pattern B

Pattern C

Pattern D

Ans: Pattern ______

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b) Vin used some wires to make the following shapes.

A B C

D E

i) Did he use more wire for shape A or shape B? (2 marks)

Ans: Shape ______

ii) For which two shapes did he use the same length of wire? (2 marks)

Ans: Shapes ______ and ______

iii) For which shape did he use the most wire? (2 marks)

Ans: Shape ______

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24. Esther, Sheryl and Joel are among the top 3 pupils for the Math, Language and
Computer Knowledge exams.

Esther Sheryl Joel

Math 1st
Language 2nd

Computer Knowledge

The table above shows that Esther is 1st for Math and Sheryl is 2nd for Language.
No one had the same position for different subjects.

a) What position did Esther get for Language? (3 marks)

Choose:
1) 1st 2) 2nd 3) 3rd

b) For which subject did Sheryl get the 1st position? (3 marks)

Choose:
1) Math 2) Language 3) Computer Knowledge

c) What position did Joel get for Computer Knowledge? (3 marks)

Choose:
1) 1st 2) 2nd 3) 3rd

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25a) Which of the choices below has arranged the following fractions from the smallest to
the greatest? (3 marks)
3 3 3 3
, , ,
5 8 4 7

Choose:
3 3 3 3
1) , , ,
4 5 7 8

3 3 3 3
2) , , ,
8 7 5 4

3 3 3 3
3) , , ,
5 4 8 7

3 3 3 3
4) , , ,
7 4 5 8

b) Which of the choices below has arranged the following fractions from the smallest to
the greatest? (3 marks)
6 3 8 4
, , ,
7 4 9 5

Choose:
3 4 6 8
1) , , ,
4 5 7 9

8 6 4 3
2) , , ,
9 7 5 4

6 8 4 3
3) , , ,
7 9 5 4

4 6 8 3
4) , , ,
5 7 9 4

2 2
c) Tim ate of the potato chips he bought. He then gave of the remainder to his
5 3
sister. What fraction of the potato chips does Tim have left? (4 marks)

Ans: ______

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