2013 Math Challenge Grade 2 Name __________________________________________________________ Score ____________

Solve each item on scratch paper when necessary. Write the correct answer on the blank. _______________ 1. In 9 458, what is the place value of 9? _______________ 2. There are _____ hundreds in 4 678. _______________ 3. In 96 781, what digit is in the ten thousands place? _______________ 4. Write 4 x 10 + 3 x 100 + 5 as one number. _______________ 5. What page is 13 pages after page 123? _______________ 6. Write seventeen thousand, one hundred five in symbols. _______________ 7. Write DCXLII in Hindu Arabic numerals. _______________ 8. What is the smallest whole number n that you can put in the blank to make n 17 > 12? _______________ 9. Each of 13 pupils was given numbers from 1 to 13. All the girls received odd numbers while all the boys received even numbers. How many girls are there? _______________ 10. Jess is 10 years old and Cris is 5 years older than Jess. How old will Cris be when Jess is 19 years old? _______________ 11. Counting from the front, Jo is the 13th person in the line. Counting from the back, she is the 8th person. How many persons are in the line? _______________ 12. Eva is setting up 6 tables for a dinner party. Each table will sit 4 persons and each table will need a fork. She already set 15 forks. How many more forks will she need to set? _______________ 13. Eighteen children are playing hide and seek and 7 have been found. How many children are still hiding somewhere? _______________ 14. Twenty-eight students went boating. Each boat can handle 6 students. How many boats will they need to rent? _______________ 15. There are 5 kilometers between my house and Bels house. There are 5 kilometers between Bels house and Ofels house. At most, how many kilometers is it from my house to Ofels house? _______________ 16. If a finger represents 3, how many fingers will represent 15? _______________ 17. Joe has P70. He has 6 coins of equal amounts and 2 bills, also of equal amounts. What could be the amount of each of the coins and each of the bills? _______________ 18. There were 18 boys and 13 girls in the varsity team. Seven more girls joined the team. Four boys quit the team. How many children are in the varsity team? _______________ 19. What is 15 14 + 13 -12 + 11 10 + 9 8 + 7 6 + 5 4 + 3 2 + 1 equal to?

_______________ 20. Mel has 15 books. Loi has 18 books. Together, Mel and Loi have 9 books than Amy. How many books has Amy? _______________ 21. Mr. Gene has a box containing 48 cans of sardines. He plans to give the sardines to the families affected by the recent flooding. If each family receives 4 cans of sardines, how many families could receive the sardines from Mr. Gene? _______________ 22. How many more fifteenths are needed to make 8/15 into 1 whole? _______________ 23. Which of the following is the biggest: 2/5, 6/21, 4/15, 2/11? _______________ 24. In a class election, Paula got two-thirds of the class votes. If she got 24 votes, how many pupils are there in the class? _______________ 25. If three-fourths of a number is 9, what is the number? _______________ 26. Juana baked a cake and cut it into 12 equal slices. She gave 3 slices to Amalia and 4 slices to Susan. What fraction of the cake was left for Juana? _______________ 27. A basket contains 17 mangoes, 15 bananas and no other fruit. If 3 more bananas are added to the basket, what fraction of the fruit in the basket will be bananas? _______________ 28. Mother baked some cookies and cut each cookie in half. Ella ate 4 halves. Hanna ate 6 halves. There were 18 halves left. How many whole cookies did Mother bake? _______________ 29. Miguel has 18 marbles. One-half of them are blue. One-third of the rest is white. How many marbles are not colored blue or white? _______________ 30. What is the largest two-digit odd number with an even tens digit? _______________ 31. Pedro has two P50 bills and two P10 coins. Juan has four P20 bills. Who has more money and by how much? _______________ 32. Cora has P120.00. She spent one-third of her money in one store. She spent another one-third of her money in another store. After going to the next store, she had only P15.00 left. How much did she spend in the last store? _______________ 33. Mang Tomas has P250 to be shared among his five children. How much will each child get? _______________ 34. How many two-digit numbers are there in which the tens digit is greater than the ones digit? _______________ 35. What is N in 33, 30, 27, 24, ____, N? _______________ 36. I am a three-digit number. My hundreds digit is 3. My tens digit is 2 more than my hundreds. My ones digit is 4 more than my tens. What number am I? _______________ 37. Helen has 3 meters of white ribbon and 2 meters of red ribbon. How many meters of ribbon has Helen? ______________ 38. The last Sunday of the month was on the 28th day of the month. What day of the week was the first day of the month?

_______________39. Lunch time begins at 11:45 a m. If lunch time is 35 minutes, what time does it end? _______________ 40. ABCD is a rectangle whose area is 20 square units. How many square units are contained in the shaded area, EFBA?
A B D E F C

_______________ 41. A rectangular school yard is 60 m long and 45 m wide. If you walk around it twice, how many meters would that be? _______________ 42. A team of 3 pupils ran a 400-m relay race. Joe ran 175 m and Pete ran 125 m. How many meters did the third member of the team run? _______________ 43. From a 10 cm by 20 cm rectangular cardboard, a square with side length 9 cm is cut. What is the perimeter of the shaded figure?
20 cm 9 cm 10 cm

_______________44. Bong wants to fence his rectangular garden 12 meters wide and 15 meters long. If he puts the posts 3 m apart, how many posts does he need? ______________ 45. Ann and Ben started reading their books at the same time. Ann read 18 pages per day. Ben read 22 pages a day. After 5 days, how many more pages had Ben read then Amy? ______________ 46. Kaye bought three gifts for her friends. The first gift costs P180. The second gift costs P30 more than the first. The third gift costs P10 less than the first. How much did she spend for the three gifts? _____________ 47. Each basketball team has 5 players on the court. There are three basketball games happening in the courts of the coliseum. How many players in all are in the courts of the coliseum? _____________ 48. The smallest two digit number is subtracted from the second largest three-digit number. What is the difference? _____________ 49. Two mangoes and 3 guavas cost P64. Two mangoes and 5 guavas cost P96. How much does a guava cost? _____________ 50. Together, Gino and Gary have P183.00. If Gino has P6 less than twice as much as Gary, how much money does Gino have?

2013 Math Challenge Grade 2

Name ___________________________________________________________ ____________

Score

Solve each item on scratch paper when necessary. Write the correct answer on the blank. _______________ 1. In 9 458, what is the place value of 9? In 9 458, 8 is in the ones place, 5 in the tens place, 4 in the hundreds place and 9 is in the THOUSANDS place value. _______________ 2. There are _____ hundreds in 4 678. In order to get how many hundreds a number would have, just remove the ones and the tens digits (the last two numbers) Hence, there are 46 hundreds in 4 678 (4678 = 46) _______________ 3. In 96 781, what digit is in the ten thousands place? 1 is in the ones place, 8 in the tens, 7 in the hundreds, 6 in the thousands and 9 in the ten thousands place. _______________ 4. Write 4 x 10 + 3 x 100 + 5 as one number. 4 x 10 = 40; 3 x 100 = 300; therefore, 40 + 300 + 5 = 345

_______________ 5. What page is 13 pages after page 123? (after add; before subtract) Hence, 13 pages after 123 is 13 + 123 = 136 _______________ 6. Write seventeen thousand, one hundred five in symbols. Just write the number as you read the words. 7,105

_______________ 7. Write DCXLII in Hindu Arabic numerals. Remember that D is 500, C is 100, XL is 40 and II is 2. Hence DCXLII = 642 _______________ 8. What is the smallest whole number n that you can put in the blank to make n 17 > 12? Add 17 and 12, and then add 1 to their sum since the equation uses inequality sign (greater than). So 17 + 12 + 1 = 30; that is 30 17 = 13 > 12 _______________ 9. Each of 13 pupils was given numbers from 1 to 13. All the girls received odd numbers while all the boys received even numbers. How many girls are there?

The odd numbers from 1 to 13 are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. There 7 odd numbers.

_______________ 10. Jess is 10 years old and Cris is 5 years older than Jess. How old will Cris be when Jess is 19 years old? Jess is 10 years old and Cris is 5 years older so Cris is 10 + 5 or 15 years old. When Jess is 19, then Cris will be 19 +5 = 24 years old. _______________ 11. Counting from the front, Jo is the 13th person in the line. Counting from the back, she is the 8th person. How many persons are in the line? Shortcut: Add the two numbers then subtract 1. Hence, 13 + 8 1 = 20.

_______________ 12. Eva is setting up 6 tables for a dinner party. Each table will sit 4 persons and each person will need a fork. She already set 15 forks. How many more forks will she need to set? 6 x 5 = 30 (She needs 30 forks). But she already set 15, so 30 15 = 15 forks. _______________ 13. Eighteen children are playing hide and seek and 7 have been found. How many children are still hiding somewhere? 18 7 1(taya) = 10 children are still hiding.

_______________ 14. Twenty-eight students went boating. Each boat can handle 6 students. How many boats will they need to rent? Divide 28 divided by 6 = 4 remainder 4. So for all of the 28 students to ride a boat, the need to rent 5 boats. Six each will ride on the 4 boats and the 4 students will ride on the 5th boat. _______________ 15. There are 5 kilometers between my house and Bels house. There are 5 kilometers between Bels house and Ofels house. At most, how many kilometers is it from my house to Ofels house? 5 km + 5 km = 10 km

_______________ 16. If a finger represents 3, how many fingers will represent 15? 1 finger is to 3; therefore 5 is to 15 (15 divided by 3 = 5)

_______________ 17. Joe has P70. He has 6 coins of equal amounts and 2 bills, also of equal amounts. What could be the amount of each of the coins and each of the bills? He has 6 P5.00 coins (P30) and 2 P20 bills (P40)

_______________ 18. There were 18 boys and 13 girls in the varsity team. Seven more girls joined the team. Four boys quit the team. How many children are in the varsity team? 18 + 13 + 7 4 = 34

_______________ 19. What is 15 14 + 13 -12 + 11 10 + 9 8 + 7 6 + 5 4 + 3 2 + 1 equal to? 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1= 8

_______________ 20. Mel has 15 books. Loi has 18 books. Together, Mel and Loi have 9 books than Amy. How many books has Amy? 15 + 18 9 = 24 books

_______________ 21. Mr. Gene has a box containing 48 cans of sardines. He plans to give the sardines to the families affected by the recent flooding. If each family receives 4 cans of sardines, how many families could receive the sardines from Mr. Gene? 48 divided by 4 = 12 families

_______________ 22. How many more fifteenths are needed to make 8/15 into 1 whole? 1 = 15/15 15/15 8/15 = 7/15

_______________ 23. Which of the following is the biggest: 2/5, 6/21, 4/15, 2/11? Convert to decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator. 2/5 = 0.4 2/11 = 0.182 _______________ 24. In a class election, Paula got two-thirds of the class votes. If she got 24 votes, how many pupils are there in the class? If 24 is 2/3, then 36 is 1 or 3/3 ( 24 divided by 2 times 3 = 36) 6/21 = 0.429 4/15 = 0.267

_______________ 25. If three-fourths of a number is 9, what is the number? 9 divided by 3 = 3 times 4 = 12

_______________ 26. Juana baked a cake and cut it into 12 equal slices. She gave 3 slices to Amalia and 4 slices to Susan. What fraction of the cake was left for Juana? 3 + 4 = 7 slices given fraction left 12 7 = 5 slices left 5/12

_______________ 27. A basket contains 17 mangoes, 15 bananas and no other fruit. If 3 more bananas are added to the basket, what fraction of the fruit in the basket will be bananas? 17 mangoes 15 + 3 = 18 bananas 17 + 18 = 35 (total fruits) 18/35 fraction of the fruits that are bananas

_______________ 28. Mother baked some cookies and cut each cookie in half. Ella ate 4 halves. Hanna ate 6 halves. There were 18 halves left. How many whole cookies did Mother bake? Ella 4 halves = 2 wholes Hanna 6 halves = 3 wholes Left 18 halves = 9 wholes 2 + 3 + 9 = 14 cookies

_______________ 29. Miguel has 18 marbles. One-half of them are blue. One-third of the rest is white. How many marbles are not colored blue or white? of 18 = 9 (blue) or white) _______________ 30. What is the largest two-digit odd number with an even tens digit? The largest two-digit odd number with an even tens digit is 89. 18 9 = 9 left 18 12 = 6 (not blue 1/3 of 9 = 3 (white) 9 (blue) + 3 (white) = 12

_______________ 31. Pedro has two P50 bills and two P10 coins. Juan has four P20 bills. Who has more money and by how much? Pedro = 2 x P50 = P100 2 x P10 = P 20 P 120 P120 P80 = P40 PEDRO has P40 more money than Juan. Juan = 4 x P20 = P80

_______________ 32. Cora has P120.00. She spent one-third of her money in one store. She spent another one-third of her money in another store. After going to the next store, she had only P15.00 left. How much did she spend in the last store? 1/3 of P120 = P40 (1st store) 1/3 of P120 = P40 (2nd store) P15 left P40 + P40 = P80 P120 P80 = P40 P 40 P15 = P25 (spent on the 3rd store)

_______________ 33. Mang Tomas has P250 to be shared among his five children. How much will each child get? P250 divided by 5 = P50

_______________ 34. How many two-digit numbers are there in which the tens digit is greater than the ones digit? The numbers are 10, 21, 20, 32, 31, 30, 43, 42, 41, 40, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90 There are 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 45

_______________ 35. What is N in 33, 30, 27, 24, ____, N? 33 3 = 30 18 (N) _______________ 36. I am a three-digit number. My hundreds digit is 3. My tens digit is 2 more than my hundreds. My ones digit is 4 more than my tens. What number am I? Hundreds = 3 Tens = 3 + 2 = 5 Ones = 5 + 4 = 9 My number is 359. 30 3 = 27 27- 3 = 24 24 3 = 21 21 3 =

_______________ 37. Helen has 3 meters of white ribbon and 2 meters of red ribbon. How many meters of ribbon has Helen? 3 + 2 (find LCD The LCD is 4) 3 1 + 2 1 = 3 1 + 2 2 = 5 3 meters 4 2 4 4 4

______________ 38. The last Sunday of the month was on the 28th day of the month. What day of the week was the first day of the month? Last Sunday of the month 28th day 28 divide 7 = 4 remainder 0 So the 1st day of the month is 1 day after the last Sunday which is MONDAY. _______________39. Lunch time begins at 11:45 a m. If lunch time is 35 minutes, what time does it end? 11: 45 + 35 = 11: 80, BUT 1 hr = 60 mins 80 mins = 1:20 So, 11 + 1:20 = 12:20 PM
E F D C

_______________ 40. ABCD is a rectangle whose area is 20 square units. How many square units are contained in the shaded area, EFBA?

Area of trapezoid = (b1 + b2) x h 2 = (2 units + 5 units) x 4 units 2 = 7 units x 4 units 2 = 28 square units 2 = 14 square units

_______________ 41. A rectangular school yard is 60 m long and 45 m wide. If you walk around it twice, how many meters would that be? Perimeter = (L + W) x 2 = (60 m + 45 m) x 2 = 105 m x 2 = 210 m If you walk around it twice: 210 m x 2 = 420 meters

_______________ 42. A team of 3 pupils ran a 400-m relay race. Joe ran 175 m and Pete ran 125 m. How many meters did the third member of the team run? 175 m Joe + 125 m Pete 300 m 400 m - 300 m 100 meters (3rd member)

_______________ 43. From a 10 cm by 20 cm rectangular cardboard, a square with side length 9 cm is cut. What is the perimeter of the shaded figure?
20 cm 9 cm 10 cm

rectangle

=LxW = 20 cm x 10 cm = 200 sq. cm.

square

=SxS = 9 cm x 9 cm = 81 sq. cm

shaded

=A

rectangle

A square

= 200 sq. cm 81 sq. cm

= 119 sq. cm. _______________44. Bong wants to fence his rectangular garden 12 meters wide and 15 meters long. If he puts the posts 3 m apart, how many posts does he need? P = (L + W) x 2 = (12 m + 15 m) x 2 = 27 m x 2 = 54 m 54 m divided by 3 = 18 posts

______________ 45. Ann and Ben started reading their books at the same time. Ann read 18 pages per day. Ben read 22 pages a day. After 5 days, how many more pages had Ben read then Amy? 22 pages 18 pages = 4 pages x 5 days = 20 pages

______________ 46. Kaye bought three gifts for her friends. The first gift costs P180. The second gift costs P30 more than the first. The third gift costs P10 less than the first. How much did she spend for the three gifts? 1st gift = P180 2nd gift = P180 + P30 = P210 3rd gift = P180 P10 = P170 Total: P180 + P210 + P170 = P560

_____________ 47. Each basketball team has 5 players on the court. There are three basketball games happening in the courts of the coliseum. How many players in all are in the courts of the coliseum? 5 players x 2 teams x 3 games = 30 players

_____________ 48. The smallest two digit number is subtracted from the second largest three-digit number. What is the difference? The smallest 2-digit number is 10 and the second largest 3-digit number is 998. Their difference is 998 10 = 988. _____________ 49. Two mangoes and 3 guavas cost P64. Two mangoes and 5 guavas cost P96. How much does a guava cost? P96 P64 = P32 is the cost of 2 guavas; hence 1 guava is P32 divide 2 = P16

_____________ 50. Together, Gino and Gary have P183.00. If Gino has P6 less than twice as much as Gary, how much money does Gino have? Gino and Gary = P183 Let x = Garys money 2x 6 = Ginos money x + 2x 6 = P183 3x 6 = P183 3x = P183 + 6 3x = P189 x = P63 (Garys money) 2x 6 = 2 (P63) 6 = P126 P6 = P120 (Ginos money) Gino has P120.00