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MATHEMATICS - STANDARD THREE

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1. Write the numeral for:

seven thousand, two hundred and nine.

Answer __________________

2. Write one of the symbols, > or <, in the box to

make the statement true.

3728 3817

3. Select the improper fraction and convert it to a

mixed number.

2 13 7
3 6 10

Answer ________________

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4. A piece of rope is 4/5 of a metre long. If 7/10 of a

metre is cut off, what is the length of the remaining
piece?

Answer______________________

5. Arrange the following numbers in order, in the

diagram below. Begin with the smallest number.

524 542 425

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6.
A school held a concert which ran for three days.
On Friday 579 people attended, 623 people on
Saturday and 489 people on Sunday.

How many people attended the concert?

Answer _________________

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7. Subtract 387 from 4829.

Answer _______________________

8. (i) Write each of the numbers below to the

nearest hundred.

517 712 219 467 592

Answer________________________________

(ii) Which of the three rounded numbers have a

sum closest to 1200?

Answer________________________________

9.

The six bottles can fill the box shown above.

How many boxes will 84 bottles fill?

Answer_______________________

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10. Max enjoys collecting stickers. After he collected

192 stickers, he gave 36 stickers to his brother and
27 stickers to his best friend.

How many stickers did he have left?

Answer _________________

11. At a school’s sports day, 30 bags of buns and 15

bags of cupcakes were sold. Each bag held either
12 cupcakes or 12 buns.

Altogether, how many buns and cupcakes were

sold?

Answer ______________________

12. Tick (√ ) the box for the item that has a height of
about 1 metre.

a building

a door

a table

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13.

What is the most suitable metric unit for

measuring the amount of the water in the glass
shown above?

Answer _______________________

14. Jason awoke at the time shown on the digital clock:

7: 35

Draw the hands on the face of the clock below to

show the time he awoke.

12
11 1
10 2

9 . 3

82
4
7 5
6

15. Complete the following statement:

253 centimetres = ______m and _____ cm

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16. a) How many 1 cm cubes are there in the top layer

of the cuboid?

3 cm
2 cm
cm
4 cm

Answer _____________________

b) What is the volume of the cuboid?

Answer_____________________

17. On the grid below, draw any shape which has an

area of 20 square units.

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18. Hazel earns $8.00 an hour. If she works 7 hours a

day, how much will she earn in five days?

Answer__________________

19. A supermarket buys eggs at $5.00 for six and sells

them at $12.00 per dozen. What is the profit made
if 1 dozen eggs were sold?

6 for $5.00

Answer_________________

20.

Name the solid that can be formed from the net

above.

Answer _________________

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21. Complete the following table shown below:

Number of Number of Number of

SOLID Faces Edges Vertices

Cube

22. Flip and draw the shape shown below, about the
line AB.

A B

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Favourite Colours of Students

35

30

25
Number of Students

20

15

10

0
Red Green Blue Yellow
Colours

23. The bar graph above shows the favourite

colours of students in a school.

a) What is the most favourite colour of the

students?

Answer_________________

b) What is the total number of students shown

in the bar graph?

Answer__________________

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24. The table below shows the number of toys made

by a factory over 5 days.

Days Number of Toys

Monday 300

Tuesday 220

Wednesday 350

Thursday 325

Friday 275

On which two days together were less than

500 toys made?

Answer _____________and______________

25. The table below shows the number of runs scored

by the first five batsmen of a team. Complete the
table for batsmen 3, 4 and 5.

Batsmen Tally Runs

Scored

1 3

2 11

4 15

5 9

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