IKMC 2026 - Grades 3-4

Question 1

Which animal should Linh put in to fill the square?

Question 2

Oanh wants to make some small boxes, each containing one pencil and one paintbrush of each type. How many complete small boxes can Oanh make from the larger box shown?

1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4. 6

Question 3

Vinh stands on the shaded square between W, X, Y and Z. Khanh stands on the shaded square between P, Q, R and S. Which route should Vinh take in order to meet Khanh?

1. X to P
2. Y to P
3. Z to P
4. X to Q
5. Z to Q

Question 4

Mai folds a number line in several places, as shown. What number is on the line at the place marked by the star?

1. 3
2. 5
3. 6
4. 7
5. 9

Question 5

Phong has 5 pencils. The shortest one is blue. The green and red pencils are the same length. The purple pencil is shorter than the yellow one. Which pencil is the purple one?

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E

Question 6

The path shown needs a section to join the 2 parts. A section may not be turned. Consecutive squares of the path must share a side. Which section will complete the path?

Question 7

Dan draws a white, grey or black kangaroo in every small square. Each row and each column must contain exactly 1 white, 1 grey and 1 black kangaroo. What does Dan draw in the outlined section?



Editorial note: all five printed choices were labelled A; they are relabelled A–E in their original order.

Question 8

Vy places a white square on the table. She then places a grey square and a black square on top, as shown. Then she cuts the stack of squares along the two lines. How many squares does she get?

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 7
5. 9

Question 9

The three photographs show a tiger, a kangaroo, a lion, and an ostrich escaping from the zoo. In what order did they escape through the gate?

Editorial note: the uploaded Vietnamese choices C and E omit the lion. It has been restored from the English choices printed on the same page.

1. lion, ostrich, tiger, kangaroo
2. lion, tiger, ostrich, kangaroo
3. tiger, ostrich, kangaroo, lion
4. ostrich, kangaroo, lion, tiger
5. tiger, kangaroo, lion, ostrich

Question 10

Nhung is making a heart puzzle for her friend. She intends to use 4 of the following pieces to finish it. Which one does she leave out?

Question 11

Giang has put 3 identical blocks together, as shown. On every block, each black face is opposite a white face, and each grey face is opposite a grey face. Giang looks at the building, as shown. What does he see?

Question 12

Each arrow shows how Huy must move from one square to the next. From which square should Huy start to visit all the squares exactly once?

1. A1
2. B1
3. C2
4. D2
5. A3

Question 13

Each pattern in the 5 rows represents one of the three-digit numbers 183, 451, 521, 872 and 882, but not in this order. Each digit has its own unique pattern. Which number is represented by the last row?

1. 183
2. 451
3. 521
4. 872
5. 882

Question 14

In a village there are two types of monsters: monsters with 1 eye and 4 legs, and monsters with 3 eyes and 2 legs. They have 9 eyes and 16 legs in total. How many monsters with 1 eye are there?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Question 15

Loan has built towers from cubes on a square grid. Looking from above, each number shows the height of a tower. Looking from the front in the direction of the arrows, she cannot see towers behind higher towers. How many towers can she see?

1. 8
2. 9
3. 10
4. 11
5. 12

Question 16

1. 2 strawberry cakes
2. 1 vanilla cake
3. 3 strawberry cakes
4. 2 vanilla cakes
5. 3 chocolate cakes

Question 17

Trang wishes to fill the grid so that every row and every column contains exactly one 0, one 6 and two 2s. Some numbers are already written. What is the sum of the numbers in the two squares with question marks?

Editorial note: the uploaded page omits the required grid. The matching grid has been restored from official Finnish Ecolier 2026, question 16.

1. 0
2. 2
3. 4
4. 6
5. 8

Question 18

The five polar bears Karen, Lisa, Marieke, Nadja and Peter each keep their fish in a bucket. Karen tells Lisa: “Give me 2 fish, and we will have the same number.” Marieke tells Karen and Lisa: “I have half the number of fish that you two have in total.” Which bucket is Lisa’s?

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E

Question 19

Five children Hoa, My, Toa, Ly and Chi hold hands in a circle, looking upward. Hoa is holding My’s left hand. Ly is not holding Toa’s hand. Toa is holding Chi’s right hand. Whose hands is Ly holding?

Editorial note: the uploaded paper prints the same pair in choices B and C. Both are retained; the correct choice is unaffected.

1. Hoa and Chi
2. Hoa and My
3. Hoa and My
4. Chi and My
5. Toa and Chi

Question 20

Doanh has 13 cards with digits and arithmetic symbols. Using some cards without rotating them, he formed a valid calculation and then covered its top part. What is the sum of the 4 digits Doanh used?

1. 19
2. 21
3. 23
4. 25
5. 32