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PISA for Schools

Practice Questions
Mathematics

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General Guidelines:

The mathematics questions in PISA aim at assessing the capacity of students on wide range
of subjects like:
(a) Comprehension
(b) Analyzing data from tables, charts and graphs
(c) Understanding time zones
(d) Working with money transactions
(e) Solving and interpreting mathematical problems in a variety of situations including
quantitative, spacial, probabilistic or other mathematical concepts.

The above strands are tested in three different dimensions:


1. Content (requires simple computations)
2. Mathematical Process (requires solving straight forward problems) and
3. Relections (involves Mathematical Thinking).

ALL Questions / Units to be answered. There are No internal Choices.

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Unit 1: Farms (2 questions)

Here you see a photograph of a farmhouse with a roof in the shape of a pyramid.

Below is a student’s mathematical model of the farmhouse roof with measurements added.

The attic floor, ABCD in the model, is a square. The beams that support the roof are the
edges of a block (rectangular prism) EFGHKLMN. E is the middle of AT, F is the middle of
BT, G is the middle of CT and H is the middle of DT. All the edges of the pyramid in the
model have length 12 m.

Answer the questions that follow based on this information.

1. Calculate the area of the attic floor ABCD.


The area of the attic floor ABCD =____________ m2

2. Calculate the length of EF, one of the horizontal edges of the block.
Length of EF = ________________ m

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Unit 2: Walking (2 questions)

The picture shows the footprints of a man walking. The pacelength P is the distance
between the rear of two consecutive footprints.

For men, the formula, , gives an approximate relationship between n and P where,
n = number of steps per minute, and
P = pacelength in metres.

Answer the questions that follow based on this information.

1. If the formula applies to Harish’s walking and Heiko takes 70 steps per minute, what
is Harish’s pacelength? Show your work.

_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

2. Babu knows his pacelength is 0.80 metres. The formula applies to Babu’s walking.
Calculate Babu’s walking speed in metres per minute and in kilometres per hour.
Show your working out.

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_________________________________________________________________________

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Unit 3: Apples (3 questions)

A farmer plants apple trees in a square pattern. In order to protect the apple trees against
the wind he plants conifer trees all around the orchard.
Here you see a diagram of this situation where you can see the pattern of apple trees and
pine trees for any number (n) of rows of apple trees:

Answer the questions that follow based on this information.

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1. Complete the table:

Sr Number of apple trees Number of pine trees


No
1 1 8
2 4
3
4
5

2. There are two formulae you can use to calculate the number of apple trees and the
number of pine trees for the pattern described above:

Number of apple trees = n2


Number of pine trees = 8n
where n is the number of rows of apple trees.

There is a value of n for which the number of apple trees equals the number of pine
trees. Find the value of n and show your method of calculating this.

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

3. Suppose the farmer wants to make a much larger orchard with many rows of trees.
As the farmer makes the orchard bigger, which will increase more quickly: the
number of apple trees or the number of pine trees? Explain how you found your
answer.

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

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Unit 4: Cubes (1 question)

In this photograph you see six dice, labelled (a) to (f). For all dice there is a rule: The total
number of dots on two opposite faces of each die is always seven.

Answer the question that follows based on this information.

Write in each box the number of dots on the bottom face of the dice corresponding to the
photograph.

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Unit 5: Continent Area (1 question)

Below is a map of Antarctica.

Answer the question that follows based on this information.

1. Estimate the area of Antarctica using the map scale.


Show your working out and explain how you made your estimate.
(You can draw over the map if it helps you with your estimation)

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