IKMC 2027 - Grades 1-2 - Self-study SET 2 - Thematic Batch 3

Gloria and Gabriel the hippopotamuses are travelling around the world in a hot-air balloon. Because they are quite heavy, they must throw out the sandbags from heaviest to lightest. Which bag is thrown out fourth?

Nam is saving for a new bicycle. Every day he puts into his savings box as many euros as the day number on the calendar. For example, on the 8th he saves 8 euros. How many euros does he save from 13 November to 18 November?

The shapes are arranged according to a pattern. Which is the eighth shape?

Alice has 7 pieces of paper: 3 white, 2 black and 2 grey. Ben cuts each non-black piece into 2 smaller pieces. Then Charlie cuts each non-white piece into 2 smaller pieces. How many pieces are there in total at the end?

Each shape below is made by gluing 4 cubes together. Mai paints the outside of each shape. Which has the fewest painted small-cube faces?

Four turtles, Baia, Zigan, Mark and Raman, take part in a boat race. Baia finishes before Zigan but after Raman. Raman is not first. Which turtle finishes first?

Using the shapes shown, which butterfly can Mai make?

During a shower of sweets, Nam catches 15 strawberry sweets, 8 coconut sweets and 7 grape sweets. Việt catches 6 strawberry sweets, 7 coconut sweets and 9 grape sweets. How many more sweets does Nam catch than Việt?

Grandmother calls all her chickens and one cat to dinner. In total, 20 legs run towards her. How many chickens does she keep?

Tom the cat catches 2 mice every day. How many mice does he catch in 2 weeks?

Consider the sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, …
What is the next number?

Pilar enters the maze at the arrow. On a car symbol she moves up 1 square; on a ball she moves right 2 squares; on a spinning top she moves down 3 squares; on the toy-block symbol she moves left 4 squares. Which letter does she finish at?

Tâm has four jars of paint: yellow, green, red and white. Tâm wants to make more colours for a picture. Mixing two of the four colours produces a new colour. What is the greatest number of new colours Tâm can make?

Which shape cannot be made by joining pieces of the shape shown?

Ann, Bin and Joly are siblings. One is a police officer, one a lawyer and one an engineer. Ann is older than the police officer, Bin is not the same age as the lawyer, and the lawyer is younger than Joly. Which statement below is true?

Lonien the dinosaur hides her eggs in a nest divided into squares. Each square holds at most one egg. In some empty squares she writes the number of eggs in neighbouring squares. Squares are neighbours when they share a side. What number should she put in the square marked “?”?

The girls have a one-legged hopping race. Ema finishes ninth from the front and fifth from the back. How many girls take part?

The letters of Kangaroo are placed at vertices of a square grid with 1 m sides. Pupi must walk from P to Q along grid lines and collect the letters in the correct order to spell Kangaroo. What is the shortest distance Pupi must walk?