Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest: Grade 1-2 2016
Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest: Grade 1-2 2016
Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest: Grade 1-2 2016
1. Michael built a house with matches as in the picture. How many matches did
he use?
2. Which of the following answers gives the largest number less than 15?
(A) 8+7 (B) 15–3 (C) 17–4 (D) 7+7 (E) 8+3
4. Ten friends came to John’s birthday party. Six of them were girls. How many
boys were there?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
6. Which year is the next year after the current year, 2016, that is written with
the same digits 0, 1, 2 and 6?
(A) 2106 (B) 1206 (C) 2601 (D) 2061 (E) 2160
8. Thirteen friends shared two pizzas. Each pizza was cut into eight slices. If
everyone ate a slice, how many slices remained?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
9. Sophie is arranging black and white marbles following the pattern shown in
the picture.
?
How will the marbles appear on the top level where the question mark ? is
located?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
10. Lisa put six eggs of white or brown colour in the shown
box. Two brown eggs cannot be next to each other. At
most, how many brown eggs could Lisa put in the box?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
11. Today John and Paul added their ages and got 12. What number will they
get in 4 years?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20
12. Mary is walking along the road from the house to the pond .
She is writing down on a piece of paper only the letters that appear on her
right-hand side. What will she write down?
(A) KNAO (B) KNGO (C) KNR (D) AGRO (E) KAO
13. Amy wants to build a larger square from small square tiles. She already
glued six tiles as shown.
14. In Baby Roo's house, each room is connected to any neighbouring room by a
door, see the picture.
Baby Roo wants to get from the room A to the room B. What is the least
number of doors he will need to go through?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
16. Which tile fits in the middle such that lines of the same colour are joined
together? (Turning the middle tile is allowed.)
17. Paul saw five birds sitting on a wire. Some of them were looking to their left,
others – to their right, as shown in the picture.
1 2 3 4 5
Each bird chirped once to each bird it saw. For example, the middle bird
chirped twice because it saw birds 4 and 5. In total, how many chirps did
Paul hear?
18. Five dragons named Dodo, Pepe, Ritchi, Buro and Fifi lived each in his own
cave.
Dodo and Pepe had only one neighbour. Ritchi lived in the cave with a
triangle. Buro did not have a tree in front of his cave. Pepe lived next to
Buro. Which cave did Fifi live in?
International Contest-Game
Math Kangaroo Canada, 2016
Answer Key
Grade 1-2
1 A B C D E 7 A B C D E 13 A B C D E
2 A B C D E 8 A B C D E 14 A B C D E
3 A B C D E 9 A B C D E 15 A B C D E
4 A B C D E 10 A B C D E 16 A B C D E
5 A B C D E 11 A B C D E 17 A B C D E
6 A B C D E 12 A B C D E 18 A B C D E