2020

2022

AUSTRALIAN
MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Middle
Primary
Years 3–4
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

Instructions and Information DATE

General
3–5 August
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB
blocks, counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on
scrap paper and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper. Mobile
phones are not permitted.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5
questions that require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions TIME ALLOWED
generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an
incorrect answer. 60 minutes
5. This is not a test so do not worry if you can’t answer all the questions. However, try
to answer as many as you can — you do not lose marks for incorrect answers.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school
name and school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your
answer sheet.
7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.

The answer sheet

Your answer sheet will be scanned. To make sure the scanner reads your paper
correctly, there are some DOs and DON’Ts:
DO:
• use only a lead pencil
• record your answers on the answer sheet (not on the question paper)
• for questions 1–25, fully colour the circle matching your answer — keep within
the lines
• for questions 26–30, write your 3-digit answer in the box — make sure your
writing does not touch the box
• use an eraser if you want to change an answer or remove any marks or smudges.
DO NOT:
• doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet
• colour in the QR codes on the corners of the answer sheet.

Integrity of the competition

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant
official status to their score.

Reminder
You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.

Copyright © 2022 Australian Mathematics Trust | ACN 083 950 341

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many dots are in this pattern?

(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 22
(D) 23 (E) 24

2. What number is one hundred more than 465?

(A) 365 (B) 455 (C) 475 (D) 565 (E) 1465

3. What fraction of this rectangle is shaded?

1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 4 6 8 10

4. There were 17 dogs and 9 ran away.

How many dogs were left?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 12
(D) 26 (E) 27

5. John is playing a board game.

He moves his blue piece one square
up then three squares left.
Which piece does he land on?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
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6. Which shape is not used in this snowman

picture?
(A) circle (B) oval (C) triangle
(D) square (E) rectangle

7. Eve starts at 20 and counts up by twos: 20, 22, 24 and so on. What
is the tenth number she counts?
(A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 34 (D) 36 (E) 38

8. This graph was made by a Favourite day of the week

Year 3 class. 5
4
Number of

How many students chose

students

3
either Saturday or Sunday
2
as their favourite day? 1
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 10 0
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun
(D) 12 (E) 20 Day

9. I went for a bike ride this morning. 11 12 1 11 12 1

These clocks show my start and finish 10 2 10 2
9 3 9 3
times. 8 4 8 4
7 6 5 7 6 5
In minutes, how long was my ride?
(A) 9 (B) 13 (C) 47 Start Finish
(D) 52 (E) 62

10. Edie and Louie are standing in a line with other children. Edie is
fourth from the front and Louie is fourth from the back of the line.
There are 15 children in the line. How many children are between
Edie and Louie?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. There are 49 ten-cent coins in my pink
piggy bank and 25 twenty-cent coins in
my blue piggy bank.
How much money do I have altogether?

(A) $7.40 (B) $9.90 (C) $12.30

(D) $14.80 (E) $990

12. How many more small cubes are needed

to complete this large cube?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 12 (E) 20

13. Ms Amali brings 100 stickers to share equally among her class of 23
students.
How many stickers will she have left over?
(A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 17 (E) 21

14. This card is flipped over its right-hand edge

and then flipped again over its bottom edge.
What does the card look like now?
(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)
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15. Chris wants to use the same number in both boxes to make this number
sentence true. What number should she use?

7+  = 11 − 
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

16. Sally says to her brother, ‘You are 10 years older than me’. Her brother
says, ‘You are right, and I am three times your age’. How old is Sally?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

17. How many of the small coloured

tiles are needed to cover the large
cross shape shown?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20
(D) 36 (E) 40 tile

18. Siobhan has seven cards, numbered 1 to 7.

She places six of them correctly in the three number sentences.
Which card does she have left over?

1 2 × = 12
3 4 5 + = 11
6 7 − =1

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 7

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19. A long rectangular room 10 m long and 2 m wide has mirrors on all
four walls. Any beam of light hitting these mirrors bounces back at
the same angle as shown below.
A guard standing at one end of the room shines a torch at an angle of
45◦ to the walls, making a narrow beam that bounces off the mirrors
several times, stopping when it returns to her.
How many times does the beam of light bounce off the mirrors?

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 22

20. A can filled with 30 marbles weighs 115 g. The same can with 20
marbles weighs 85 g. How much does the empty can weigh?
(A) 10 g (B) 20 g (C) 25 g (D) 30 g (E) 55 g

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Peter wants to buy a length of ribbon
1. 2. 3.
to wrap around a box as shown.
The box is 20 cm long, 20 cm wide and
20 cm high. It takes an extra 80 cm of
ribbon to tie the bow.
4. 5. 6.
What is the best estimate of the amount
of ribbon that Peter needs to buy to tie
around the box?
(A) 160 cm (B) 180 cm (C) 240 cm (D) 280 cm (E) 320 cm

22. In week 1, Hamish and Eliza open bank accounts for their savings.
Hamish saves $12 every two weeks, starting in week 1. Eliza saves $32
in week 1 and then $4 every week after that. When will they first have
the same amount of money in the bank?
(A) week 3 (B) week 5 (C) week 7 (D) week 9 (E) week 11
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23. A different whole number is placed in each

corner of a square. Two numbers joined
by an edge must have a difference of more
than 1.
When the four numbers are added together,
what is the smallest possible total?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12
(D) 13 (E) 14

24. Three whole numbers add to 21. When these same three numbers
are multiplied together they equal 280. What is the smallest of these
three numbers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 7 (E) 10

25. Steven made this cube from a paper net,

then pushed a pin through it as shown.
He then removed the pin, leaving holes in
the cube, and unfolded the cube back to its
net.
Which of the following could be the net of
Steven’s cube?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)
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For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. I notice that my electricity meter currently reads

896 754 units, where all the digits are different. 8 9 6 7 5 4
How many more units of electricity will I need to
use before all the digits are again different?

27. How many whole numbers between 200 and 500 contain the digit 3?

28. On a digital display, a combination of bars light up to represent each

digit as shown:

In some special numbers, the number of bars which light up in the

digits is the same as the sum of the digits. For example, in 373 the
number of bars is 5 + 3 + 5 = 13 which is the equal to 3 + 7 + 3 = 13.
What is the largest such three-digit number?

29. Nguyen writes down some numbers according to the following rules.
Starting with the number 1, he doubles the number and adds 4, so the
second number he writes is 6.
He now repeats this process, starting with the last number written,
doubling and then adding 4, but he doesn’t write the hundreds digit
if the number is bigger than 100.
What is the 2022nd number that Nguyen writes down?

30. I choose three different numbers out of this list and add them together:

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, . . . , 105

How many different totals can I get?

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Primary
Years 3–4
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

CORRECTLY RECORDING YOUR ANSWER (QUESTIONS 1–25)

Only use a lead pencil to record your answer. When recording your answer on the sheet, fill in the
bubble completely. The example below shows the answer to Question 1 was recorded as ‘B’.


Correct

DO NOT record your answers as shown below. They cannot be read accurately by the scanner and you
may not receive a mark for the question.

 
Incorrect Incorrect

 
Incorrect Incorrect

 
this one!
Incorrect Incorrect

Use an eraser if you want to change an answer or remove any pencil marks or smudges. DO NOT cross
out one answer and fill in another answer, as the scanner cannot determine which one is your answer.

CORRECTLY WRITING YOUR ANSWER (QUESTIONS 26–30)

For questions 26–30, write your answer in the boxes as shown below.

1 digit 2 digits 3 digits

2+3= 5 20 + 21 = 4 l 200 + 38 = 2 3 8

WRITING SAMPLES

0 0 0  1 l  2 2 2 
Correct Correct Correct

3 3 3  4 4 4  5 5 5 
Correct Correct Correct

6 6 6  7 7 7  8 8 8 
Correct Correct Correct

9 9 9  1 1 2 3
6 5 0 5
8

Correct 4 Incorrect

Your numbers MUST NOT touch the edges of the box or go outside it.
The number one must only be written as above, otherwise the scanner might interpret it as a seven.
DO NOT doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet or colour in the QR codes on the corners of
the answer sheet, as this will interfere with the scanner.