ISEB Assessments

Year 3 Maths Test 1

• 100 marks are available in total.

• You should take no more than 1 hour to complete the test.

• Write your answers in the spaces provided.

• Always write down your working, except when you are told not to.

• Calculators are not allowed.

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1. (a) The picture below shows 19 crows sitting on a fence at 7 am.

Every hour, 3 crows fly away.

(i) How many crows will be on the fence at 8 am?

Answer: .................................................... (1)

(ii) Complete the table.

Time 7 am 8 am 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 pm 1 pm

Number of crows on fence 19

(3)

(b) (i) Starting with 3, count on in fives.

Answer: 3, 8, ...................., ...................., ...................., ..................... (2)

(ii) Starting with 105, count back in tens.

Answer: 105, ...................., ...................., ...................., ...................., .................... (2)

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(c) On the number track below,

(i) what number is represented by the star ?

Answer: .................................................... (1)

(ii) write the number 43 in the correct box. (1)

2. (a) (i) What fraction of this group of circles is inside the loop?

Answer: .................................................... (1)

(ii) Draw a loop round a quarter of the squares below.

How many squares are inside the loop?

Answer: .................................................... (1)

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(b) (i) Shade a half of this shape.

(1)

(ii) Shade a fifth of this rectangle.

How many squares have you shaded?

Answer: .................................................... (2)

(c) Fill in the gaps.

(i) One quarter + ................................................................................................ is one whole. (1)

(ii) .................... is half way between 5 and 6 (1)

(iii) .................... is a quarter of 20 (1)

(d) On this number line, mark (with a cross) the position of three fifths.

(2)

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3. Showing all your working, complete the following:

(a) (i) Add 37 to 45

Answer: .................................................... (2)

(ii) Add 245 to 158

Answer: .................................................... (2)

(b) (i) Subtract 58 from 75

Answer: .................................................... (2)

(ii) Subtract 98 from 267

Answer: .................................................... (2)

(c) Tom started with 56 marbles.

He lost 19 to Joanne and then won 37 from Ian.

How many marbles does Tom have now?

Answer: ....................................... marbles (2)

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4. (a) The diagram shows two abacuses, A and B.

Abacus A shows the number 32

On abacus B, show the number you get when you multiply 32 by 10 (2)

(b) What is

(i) half of 100

Answer: .................................................... (1)

(ii) a tenth of 200

Answer: .................................................... (1)

(iii) a hundredth of 500?

Answer: .................................................... (1)

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(c) Without writing down any working, complete the following:

(i) 60 × 2 = .................... (1)

(ii) .................... × 5 = 100 (1)

(iii) 100 ÷ .................... = 25 (1)

(iv) .................... ÷ 2 = 45 (1)

(v) 600 ÷ .................... = 30 (1)

5. (a) Draw the next pattern in each of the following sequences.

(i)

(2)

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(ii)

(2)

(iii)

(2)

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(b) Write the next two terms in each of the following sequences.

(i) 1, 4, 7, 10, …

Answer: ....................... , ......................... (2)

(ii) 160, 80, 40, 20, …

Answer: ....................... , ......................... (2)

6. (a) For each of these statements, list the numbers to show that the statement is
true.

(i) There are 5 odd numbers between 30 and 40

Answer: .............................................................................................. (2)

(ii) There are 7 multiples of 5 between 21 and 59

Answer: .............................................................................................. (2)

(b) For each of these statements, give two examples to show that the statement is
true.

(i) Adding any 3 odd numbers always gives another odd number.

Answer: .............................................................................................. (2)

(ii) A multiple of 10 is always twice a multiple of 5

Answer: .............................................................................................. (2)

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(c) Is the following statement true?

Multiplying a number by 3 always gives an odd number.

Explain your answer, giving two examples.

Answer: .......................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................... (2)

7. ..... (a) (i) Measure the length of John’s pencil.

Answer: ............................................... cm (1)

(ii) Janet’s pencil is one and a half times as long as John’s.

How long is Janet’s pencil?

Answer: ............................................... cm (1)

(b) (i) Barbara’s height is one and a half metres.

Write this height as a decimal.

Answer: ................................................ m (1)

(ii) Jon’s height is just 5 centimetres more than one metre.

Write Jon’s height as a decimal.

Answer: ................................................ m (2)

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(c) Two beetles, John and Paul, walk along the lines of their shapes.

John walks along the lines of shape A, and Paul walks along the lines of
shape B.

By careful measurement, find which beetle walks farther and by how many
centimetres.

A B

Answer: .................................... walks farther by .................................. cm (3)

(d) A Christmas tree is 2.9 metres tall.

A fairy is placed on top, making the tree 15 centimetres taller.

What is the new height in metres?

Answer: ................................................ m (2)

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8. Anne has 100 British stamps and 80 foreign stamps.

Brenda has a total of 140 stamps, of which 60 are British.

Clare has 10 more British stamps than Anne and 10 fewer foreign stamps than
Brenda.

Record this information in the table below.

British foreign total

Anne (2)

Brenda (2)

Clare (3)

total (3)

9. (a) Name the shapes A, B and C below.

Answer: A ..............................................................

Answer: B ..............................................................

Answer: C ............................................................. (3)

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(b) Write the numbers in the gaps for shapes D and E.

Answer:

Shape D has ............... sides, ............... angles and ............... vertices (corners) (2)

Shape E has ............... sides, ............... angles and ............... vertices (corners) (2)

(c) Shape F is drawn below.

The rectangle F has 4 sides, 4 angles and 4 vertices.

Write down two more facts about shape F.

Answer:

Fact 1: .........................................................................................................

.....................................................................................................................

Fact 2: .........................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................... (3)

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10. (a) On the grid below, half of a shape has been drawn and the bold line is the line
of symmetry.

Complete the shape. (4)

(b) On the grid below, complete the shape so that it has two lines of symmetry.

(6)

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