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Ma Mathematics tests
KEY STAGE Mark scheme
3 for Mental mathematics
ALL TIERS tests A, B and C
2009

National curriculum assessments

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2009 KS3 Mathematics test mark scheme: Mental mathematics Introduction

Introduction

This booklet contains the mark schemes for the lower tier test (test C) and the higher tiers
tests (tests A and B).

General guidance for markers

Please note that pupils should not be penalised if they record any information given in the
question or show their working. Ignore any annotation, even if in the answer space, and mark
only the answer. Accept an unambiguous answer written in the stimulus box, or elsewhere on
the page, but clearly attributable to the relevant question.

General guidance for marking the written tests also applies to marking the mental
mathematics tests. In addition, please apply the following principles unless specific
instructions to the contrary are given in the mark scheme:

accept responses in words and/or figures,

eg 7 point 3, 4 hundred

accept any unambiguous indication of the correct response from a given list,
eg circling, ticking, underlining

accept unambiguous misspellings

accept units that have been correctly converted to a different unit provided the new unit
is indicated. Where units have been given on the answer sheet, do not penalise pupils for
writing the units again

accept responses with commas as spacers,

eg 50,000
but do not accept a point used as a spacer,
eg 50.000

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 Lower tier test C questions Pupil answer sheet

4
‘Now we are ready to start the test.
For the first group of questions you will have 5 seconds to work out each answer
and write it down.’ Time: 5 seconds continued
Key stage 3 mathematics 2009
1 Write in figures the number eight hundred and one.
Mental mathematics Test C 8 –3
8

2 How many minutes are there in two hours?

First name
3 What is twenty-six pounds fifty-eight pence rounded to the nearest pound?
Last name Time: 10 seconds
4 What number do I need to add to sixty-three to make one hundred?
School
9 Silver
5 Multiply two hundred and six by ten. Total
marks Red
6 How many faces does a triangular prism have?
9
7 I am thinking of a number. I call it b. I subtract two from my number.
Write an expression to show the result. 10

8 Add eight to minus three.

0 100
Practice question
‘For the next group of questions you will have 10 seconds to work out each answer and
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write it down.’ 10
24
9 The tally chart shows the number of silver and red cars a shop sold in one week. 11 6.45 pm 45 minutes
How many more red cars were sold than silver cars?
Time: 5 seconds
pm
11
10 Look at the number line on your answer sheet.
1
What number is the arrow pointing to? 1
12 2.3 2.5 2.7

11 A radio programme starts at six forty-five pm and lasts for forty-five minutes. 2 minutes
2
, 12
At what time does the programme finish?
3 £ £ 26.58
12 I am counting up in nought point twos. 3 13 9343
13

Two point three, two point five, two point seven, …

Write down the next two numbers. 4 63
4 14 16, 12, 8, 4

13 Look at the number on your answer sheet. Round it to the nearest hundred. 5 206
5
, 14

14 The sequence of numbers on your answer sheet goes down in steps of four.
6 15 a – b = 14
Write the next two numbers in the sequence. 6 15

15 Look at the equation on your answer sheet. 7 b 16 2.6 0.8

7 16
When a is thirty-four, what is the value of b?

16 Look at the numbers on your answer sheet. Add them.

‘Now turn over your answer sheet.’

 17 Look at the dial on your answer sheet. The arrow turns from ‘off’ to ‘rinse’.
Through how many degrees does the arrow turn?
Time: 10 seconds continued Time: 15 seconds continued
18 One hundred people were asked whether they used a gym or not.
The pie chart shows the results. 17 Off 25
How many people said no? Poetry

Spin Wash Reference

19 Halve the expression on your answer sheet.
Story
Rinse
20 Each side of a pentagon is eight centimetres long. What is its perimeter?
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
°
21 What is twenty per cent of fifty pounds? 17

25
‘For the next group of questions you will have 15 seconds to work out each answer and 18
No
write it down.’
26
22 Look at the number machine on your answer sheet. Yes
I put in the number two. What number should come out?
people
18
23 Paul was born on the first of August in nineteen ninety-eight. cm2
How old will he be on the first of August in two thousand and nine?
19 8pq
19
26

24 Your answer sheet shows how Ella spent all her pocket money one month.
20
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What percentage did she spend on clothes? cm 8 cm 27

20

25 Lisa did a survey to find out the type of books pupils in her class preferred.
21 £ £ 50
The bar chart shows her results. 21

How many more pupils chose story books than poetry books?
27
26 Look at the shaded triangle drawn on a centimetre square grid. Time: 15 seconds
What is the area of the triangle?
28
22 in ×4 +6 out rectangle rhombus
27 Your answer sheet shows the coins Jack has in his pocket.
parallelogram
He is going to take a coin from his pocket at random.
22
What is the probability he will take a two pence coin? square trapezium
28

28 Look at the names of shapes on your answer sheet. 23 2009

23

Put a ring round the name of the shape that has only one pair of parallel sides. 29 4.3 × 6 = 25.8
24 magazines 25%
29 Four point three multiplied by six equals twenty-five point eight. food 40%
29
What does four point three multiplied by twelve equal? clothes

30 Look at the numbers on your answer sheet. % 30 21 23 25 27

24 30

Put a ring round the number that is prime.

‘Put your pens down. The test is finished.’

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2006
Time: 5 seconds continued
Mental mathematics lower
highertier
tiers Test
TestC A
8 5

Time: 10 seconds

Test A
Test C 9 6
Mark scheme

10 60

Time: 5 seconds 11 7:30 pm

Do not accept
1 801 responses given in words

12 2.9 and 3.1 Accept pair

2 120 minutes in either order
Accept equivalent
fractions or decimals
Condone answers
3 £ 27 of £27.00

13 9300
Accept
4 37 embedded values,
eg 63 + 37 = 100
14 0 and –4 Accept pair
in either order

5 2060

Accept
6 5 15 20 embedded values,
eg 34 – 20 = 14

Do not accept
7 b–2 unconventional notation, Accept equivalent
eg 1b – 2 16 3.4 fractions or decimals

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Time: 10 seconds continued Time: 15 seconds continued

17 180 ° 25 7

18 75
26 6 cm2

Do not accept
19 4 pq unconventional notation,
eg 4 × p × q

27 1 Accept equivalent
20 40 cm 5 probabilities

21 £ 10

Time: 15 seconds
28
rectangle rhombus
22 14
parallelogram

square trapezium

23 11
29 51.6 Accept equivalent
fractions or decimals
24 35 % Do not accept equivalent
fractions or decimals

30 21 23 25 27

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 Higher tiers test A questions Pupil answer sheet

8
‘Now we are ready to start the test.
For the first group of questions you will have 5 seconds to work out each answer
and write it down.’ Time: 5 seconds continued
Key stage 3 mathematics 2009
1 How many metres are six hundred centimetres?
Mental mathematics Test A 6 8 p2 – p2
6

2 Subtract thirty-six from two hundred.

First name
7 cm 58 cm
7
3 Write in figures the number ten thousand and ten.
Last name
4 Look at the numbers on your answer sheet. Add them.
School

5 Look at the number on your answer sheet. Total Time: 10 seconds

Round it to two decimal places. marks

8 x + 7 = 22
6 Look at the expression. Write it as simply as possible. 8

7 To the nearest centimetre the length of a shelf is fifty-eight centimetres. 9 pm 45 minutes

9
What is the smallest value the length of the shelf could be?
10
‘For the next group of questions you will have 10 seconds to work out each answer and Walk Bike
write it down.’
Train
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8 Look at the equation. What is the value of x? Practice question

Bus
Car
9 I started a train journey at three twenty pm. 39
The journey lasted for forty-five minutes.
At what time did I arrive?
10

10 Some pupils were asked how they had travelled to school that day.
The pie chart shows the results. Which form of transport is the mode? 11 £ 50%
Time: 5 seconds 11

11 What is fifty per cent of one hundred and ten pounds? 1 m 600 cm 12
1 12

12 Write down a multiple of four that is greater than one thousand.

2 36 13
2

13 Draw an arrow on the scale to show two point two kilograms.

3
3
14 A football team won fifty-five per cent of their games and lost thirty per cent. 2 kg 3 kg
The rest ended in a draw. 13

What percentage of their games ended in a draw? 4 –9 5

4

14 won 55%
‘Now turn over your answer sheet.’ %
5 0.576 lost 30%
5 14

15 On my desk I have three blue pens, one red pen and four black pens.
I am going to pick up one of the pens at random.
What is the probability that I will pick up a black pen?
 16 A rectangular football pitch is sixty-five metres by one hundred metres.
A footballer runs once around the perimeter of the pitch. How far does he run?
Time: 10 seconds continued Time: 10 seconds continued
17 Write down a prime number between ten and twenty.
15 3 blue, 1 red, 4 black 24 1
18 Look at the expression.
9
When m is eight, what is the value of the expression? 24
15

19 There are ninety seats in a train carriage.

How many seats are there in twelve of these carriages? 16
Time: 15 seconds
65m
20 Your answer sheet shows a diagram of a 3-D shape. 1 1
What is the mathematical name of this shape? 25
2 3 25
100m

21 Twelve people in a group are left-handed. 26

m
Twenty per cent of the group are left-handed. 16

How many people are in the group?

17 10 20
17
22 A bird flies at an average speed of thirty-six kilometres per hour. ° a
At this speed, how far would it fly in ten minutes? 26
18 4( m – 3 )
18

23 Look at the equation. 27

What is the value of y when x equals three? 19 90 12 1 2 3
19
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24 What is the square root of one ninth?

20 27
‘For the next group of questions you will have 15 seconds to work out each answer and
write it down.’
28 Mean = 10
28
25 I eat one half of a pizza.
My friend eats one third of the pizza. What fraction of the pizza is left? 20
29

26 Look at the regular decagon. The exterior angle marked a is thirty-six degrees. 21 people 12 20%
21 k°
What is the size of an interior angle?
7k° 4k°
27 I can make a three-digit number using the digits one, two and three in 22 36 km per hour
six different ways. How many of these three-digit numbers are even?
km
22

28 The mean of three numbers is ten. Two of the numbers are eight.
What is the third number? 23 y = 4 x2
23 29

29 The diagram shows three lines meeting at a point.

Work out the value of k. 30 , , 45
30

30 Write down the three consecutive whole numbers that add up to forty-five.

9
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Time: 5 seconds continued
Mental mathematics higher tiers Test A
Do not accept
6 7p2 unconventional notation,
eg 7 × p2 or 7pp

Accept equivalent
7 57.5 cm fractions or decimals

Test A
Mark scheme Time: 10 seconds

Accept embedded values,

8 15 eg 15 + 7 = 22

9 4:05 pm

10 Bus Accept unambiguous

indication, eg Bu

11 £ 55

12 Any multiple of 4 greater

Time: 5 seconds than 1000, eg 1004, 5064

Do not accept Note that any number is a multiple of

1 6 m amended units 4 where the last two digits constitute a
number that is a multiple of four

2 164
13 2.2kg marked on the scale, ie

3 10 010

4 –4 2kg 3kg

Do not accept equivalent Do not accept equivalent

5 0.58 fractions or decimals
14 15 % fractions or decimals

10
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Time: 10 seconds continued Time: 10 seconds continued

15 1 Accept equivalent 24 1 Accept – 1 with 1 or alone

probabilities 3 3
2 3 Accept 0.33 or better

16 330 m Time: 15 seconds

25 1 Accept
equivalent fractions
6
Do not accept
equivalent decimals

26 144 °

17 One of 11, 13, 17 or 19

18 20

27 2 Accept both even

19 1080 numbers given,
ie 132 and 312

20 cylinder Accept
‘circular prism’

28 14

29 30 Accept 30°

21 60 people

22 6 km

23 36

Accept values
30 14, 15, 16 in any order

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 Higher tiers test B questions Pupil answer sheet

12
‘Now we are ready to start the test.
For the first group of questions you will have 5 seconds to work out each answer
and write it down.’ Time: 5 seconds continued
Key stage 3 mathematics 2009
1 Look at the units of length on your answer sheet. Mental mathematics Test B 7 0.09
7
Put a ring round the one that is best used for the distance between two towns.
First name
8
2 Look at the expression. 8

Write it as simply as possible. Last name

3 Write the number that is three less than six thousand. School
Time: 10 seconds
Total
4 Multiply seven point eight by two. marks 9 25p £2.50
9

5 What number is three cubed?

10 Quarter to six
6 The probability that I will have toast for breakfast is nought point three.
What is the probability that I will not have toast for breakfast? minutes
Practice question 10

7 Write nought point nought nine as a fraction. 11

39 13 14 15
11

8 Multiply minus six by minus eight.

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12 Key: = 3 pupils
‘For the next group of questions you will have 10 seconds to work out each answer and
Time: 5 seconds Apple
write it down.’
Banana
9 A carton of orange drink costs twenty-five pence. 1 millimetres kilometres
How many cartons can I buy for two pounds fifty? metres pupils
12

10 I was delayed in traffic from quarter to six to twenty past six one evening. centimetres inches
1

For how many minutes was I delayed? 13 °C 8°C

13

2 8y + 3y
11 Look at the numbers on your answer sheet. Add them. 2
14 %
14
12 Pupils in a class were asked if they would prefer an apple or a banana. 3 6000
3
The pictogram shows the results. How many pupils were in the class? y
15
4 7.8 2
13 At ten pm, the temperature was eight degrees Celsius. 4

By midnight the temperature had dropped by ten degrees.

0
What was the temperature at midnight? 5 –2 0 2 x
5

–2
14 Look at the rectangle drawn on a square grid.
6 0.3
What percentage of the rectangle is shaded? 6 15

15 Put a cross on the grid to show the point with coordinates minus two, one.

‘Now turn over your answer sheet.’

 16 A teacher asked pupils in a class ‘Do you have a pet?’
The percentage bar chart shows the results.
Estimate the percentage of pupils who said no.
Time: 10 seconds continued Time: 15 seconds
17 A regular pentagon has a side length of four centimetres. What is its perimeter?
16 24 and 24
18 Look at the isosceles triangle. What is the size of angle x? No Yes
0% 100% 1
19 On a sponsored walk, I walked four miles in each hour. 25 1cm : 2km 7 cm
2
How long did it take me to walk eighteen miles?
% km
25
16

20 The prices of meals in a canteen are increased by five per cent.

What is the new price if the old price was two pounds? 17 cm 4 cm 26 65 83
26
17

21 Look at the equation. What is the value of x when y is twenty? ( 3 + b )2

18 27
5 27

22 A rectangular photograph measures eight centimetres by ten centimetres.

I enlarge the photograph so that the shorter side is twelve centimetres. 28
30° Number of
What is the length of the longer side? Frequency
children
0 1
23 Look at the expression. Multiply out the brackets. 1 1
2 4
‘For the next group of questions you will have 15 seconds to work out each answer and ° 3 3
x
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18

24 I am thinking of two numbers that add to twelve.

children
One number is two more than the other. What are my two numbers? 28
19 hours 18
19

25 The scale of a map is one centimetre to two kilometres. 29 2:3:4

On the map two places are seven and a half centimetres apart. 20 £ 5% £2
20
° ° °
What is the actual distance between the two places? , , 29

21 y = 3x – 7
26 One hundred pupils study French, German or both languages. 21
30
Sixty-five pupils study French and eighty-three pupils study German.
How many study both languages? 22
3 cm
8 cm
27 Look at the expression. When b is seven, work out the value of the expression.
3 cm
10 cm
28 The table shows the number of children in ten families.
How many children are there altogether?
cm 6 9 12
22

29 The angles in a triangle are in the ratio two to three to four.

What are the sizes of the three angles? 18 27
23 3y (5 – y )
23 30

30 The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.

Which value under the triangle shows the length of the hypotenuse?
Put a ring round the correct value.

13
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Key stage 3 mathematics 2009

Time: 5 seconds continued
Mental mathematics higher tiers Test B
7 9 Accept
100 equivalent decimals
Do not accept
equivalent fractions

Test B 8 48
Mark scheme
Time: 10 seconds

9 10

10 35 minutes

Time: 5 seconds 11 42

1
millimetres kilometres 12 21 pupils

metres

centimetres inches

Do not accept
13 –2 °C
2 11y unconventional notation,
eg 11 × y
Do not accept equivalent
14 75 % fractions or decimals

3 5997
15 y
Accept equivalent
4 15.6 fractions or decimals 2

0
5 27 –2 0 2 x

Accept equivalent
–2
6 0.7 probabilities

14
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Time: 10 seconds continued Time: 15 seconds

Accept pair in
16 30 % answer 40 % 24 5 and 7 either order

Do not accept equivalent

fractions or decimals 25 15 km

26 48
17 20 cm

27 20
18 75 °

28 22 children
19 1 Accept equivalent
4 2 hours fractions or decimals
Accept
4 hours 30 minutes

20 £ 2.10

21 9

22 15 cm
29 40 °, 60 °, 80 °

Accept values in any order

23 15y – 3y2 Accept

unconventional notation, 30
eg 15 × y – 3y × y 6 9 12
Do not accept
incomplete processing,
eg 5 × 3y – 3y 2 18 27

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