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CBSE · Class 3 · Mathematics

Fun at Class Party!

Standard difficulty · 20 questions · 40 marks

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Show your working for Sections B and C. Answers are on the last page — try every question first!

Section A — Choose the correct answer8 × 1 = 8 marks
1.
Which of these is longer than 1 metre?
  1. a cricket pitch
  2. a pencil
  3. a matchbox
  4. a crayon
2.
How many quarter metres make 5 metres?
  1. 22
  2. 16
  3. 20
  4. 24
3.
How many cuts are needed to cut a ribbon into 3 pieces?
  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 2
  4. 4
4.
Asha measures a table with handspans and gets 9. Riya measures the same table and gets 7. Whose handspan is longer?
  1. The table changed
  2. Asha
  3. Riya
  4. Both are the same
5.
How many half metres make 1 metre?
  1. 2
  2. 10
  3. 4
  4. 1
6.
14 pieces of wire are each half a metre long. Joined end to end, how long are they?
  1. 28 metres
  2. 14 metres
  3. 8 metres
  4. 7 metres
7.
Aman’s piece of cloth is a quarter of a metre long and Meena’s is half a metre long. Which is longer?
  1. You cannot tell
  2. Aman’s (a quarter of a metre)
  3. Meena’s (half a metre)
  4. They are the same
8.
How many half-metre pieces can be cut from 4 metres of cloth?
  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 7
  4. 10
Section B — Short answer8 × 2 = 16 marks
9.
How many half metres make 2 metres?
10.
Asha cuts a long paper strip into 9 equal pieces. How many cuts does she make?
11.
Is an eraser more or less than 1 metre long?
12.
12 quarter-metre sticks are laid end to end. How long is the line?
13.
How many quarter metres make 8 and a half metres?
14.
Neel walks across the room in 14 footsteps. Aman needs 17 footsteps. Who takes longer steps? Why?
15.
How many quarter-metre pieces can be cut from 8 metres of ribbon?
16.
To cut a long cake into 12 slices with straight cuts across it, how many cuts are needed?
Section C — Word problems4 × 4 = 16 marks
17.
For the class party, Ms Rao has 5 metres of ribbon and cuts it into pieces that are each a quarter of a metre long. (a) How many pieces are there? (b) How many cuts are made?
18.
Sort these into “more than 1 metre” and “less than 1 metre”: a bed, an eraser, a key, a cricket pitch.
19.
Riya, Dev and Meena measured the same desk with handspans: Riya got 8, Dev got 6 and Meena got 5. Who has the longest handspan? Who has the shortest? Why do they get different answers?
20.
Aman joins 13 pieces of string, each half a metre long. How long is the string? Is it more or less than 2 metres?
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QAnswerWorking
1(a) a cricket pitch—
2(c) 204 quarters in each metre: 4 × 5
3(c) 2one cut fewer than the number of pieces
4(c) Riyathe longer handspan needs fewer spans
5(a) 2—
6(d) 7 metrestwo halves make one metre
7(c) Meena’s (half a metre)a quarter < a half < three quarters
8(a) 82 halves in each metre: 2 × 4
942 × 2
108—
11Less than 1 metre—
123 metres4 quarters make 1 metre
13344 × 8 + 2
14Neel, because fewer steps cover the same length—
15324 × 8
1611one fewer than the slices
17(a) 20 pieces; (b) 19 cuts4 × 5; one fewer cut than pieces
18more: a bed, a cricket pitch; less: an eraser, a key—
19Longest: Meena; shortest: Riya. Their handspans are different lengths, which is why we need a standard unit like the metre.—
206 and a half metres; more than 2 metrestwo halves make a metre