The Kangaroo competition has been held since 1994. It originated in Australia on the initiative of the famous Australian mathematician and educator Peter Halloran. The competition is designed for ordinary schoolchildren and therefore quickly won the sympathy of both children and teachers. The competition tasks are designed so that each student finds interesting and accessible questions for himself. After all, the main goal of this competition is to interest the children, to instill in them confidence in their abilities, and the motto is “Mathematics for everyone.”
Now about 5 million schoolchildren around the world participate in it. In Russia, the number of participants exceeded 1.6 million people. In the Udmurt Republic, 15-25 thousand schoolchildren annually participate in Kangaroo.
In Udmurtia, the competition is held by the Center for Educational Technologies “Another School”.
If you are in another region of the Russian Federation, contact the central organizing committee of the competition - mathkang.ru
Procedure for holding the competition
The competition is held in test form in one stage without any preliminary selection. The competition is held at school. Participants are given tasks containing 30 problems, where each problem is accompanied by five answer options.
All work is given 1 hour 15 minutes of pure time. Then the answer forms are submitted and sent to the Organizing Committee for centralized verification and processing.
After verification, each school that took part in the competition receives a final report indicating the points received and the place of each student in the general list. All participants are given certificates, and parallel winners receive diplomas and prizes; the best ones are invited to math camps.
Documents for organizers
Technical documentation:
Instructions for holding a competition for teachers.
Form for the list of participants in the "KANGAROO" competition for school organizers.
Form of Notification of informed consent of competition participants (their legal representatives) for the processing of personal data (filled out by the school). Their completion is necessary due to the fact that the personal data of competition participants is automatically processed using computer technology.
For organizers who want to additionally insure themselves regarding the validity of collecting a registration fee from participants, we offer the form of the Minutes of the Parent Community Meeting, the decision of which will also confirm the powers of the school organizer on the part of the parents. This is especially true for those who plan to act as an individual.
The international mathematical game-competition "Kangaroo 2017" was held on March 16, 2017. 143,591 students from 2,681 educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus took part in the largest mathematical competition for schoolchildren in the world.
People began to use counting, measurements, and calculations in life from the most ancient times. The origins of mathematical science are usually attributed to Ancient Egypt. In those distant times, knowledge was surrounded by mystery. Education provided access to government service and a prosperous life. Only children of wealthy parents could attend schools. The first schools appeared at the palaces of the pharaohs, and later at temples and large government institutions. The future pharaoh, despite his sacred and divine status, did not have any concessions or privileges in the process of mastering the art of counting, measuring, calculating the areas and volumes of various figures. Every day he was obliged to solve mathematical problems, which the teacher brought him on papyrus (a school notebook of that time), and there was no more important thing until all the problems were solved. This knowledge was necessary for competent management of the great state.
Today, mathematicians all over the world are making efforts to popularize this science. "Math for everyone!" - this is the motto of the international association “Kangaroos Without Borders” (KSF - Le Kangourou sans Frontieres), which today includes 81 countries.
On March 16, children from different countries tried their hand at solving problems prepared by the best teachers and instructors and approved at the annual conference of KSF participating countries. It is pleasant to note that in terms of the number of problems selected for assignments at six age levels, the group of Belarusian mathematicians came out on top.
In our country, 143,591 students solved problems that day, which is 6,759 more than the previous competition. An increase in the number of participants occurred in all regions, with the exception of the Grodno region. The largest number of students participating in this intellectual competition are registered in the capital. The number of participants by region is shown in the diagram:
“Kangaroo” tasks are developed for six age groups: for 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 and 11 grades. The distribution of participants according to classes is as follows:
Let us remind you that according to the rules of the competition, all problems in the task are conditionally divided into three levels of difficulty: simple, each of which is worth 3 points; more complex problems, the solution of which sometimes requires a good knowledge of the school mathematics curriculum (estimated at 4 points); complex, non-standard tasks, for the solution of which you need to show ingenuity, the ability to reason, and analyze (estimated at 5 points). The success of completing tasks is reflected in the following diagrams.
Information about the success of the task for grades 1-2, which the youngest participants worked on:
The success of completing the same task by 2nd grade students:
When analyzing the results of this task, it is surprising that, in percentage terms, first-graders coped more successfully than second-graders with solving 8 problems (a third of the task out of 24 problems), and another 8 problems (another third of the task) were solved equally successfully. Only with problems Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 19 did second-graders, who study mathematics a year longer, cope more successfully than first-graders.
Percentage of correctly solved assignment problems for grades 3-4 by third graders:
The success of completing the same task by 4th grade students:
In this task, fourth-graders confirmed a higher level of knowledge compared to third-graders, completing all tasks more successfully in percentage terms.
Statistical data on the completion of assignments for grades 5-6 by 5th grade students:
Success in completing the same task by 6th grade students:
In this task, sixth-graders also confirmed that they had acquired knowledge over the year, completing the task more successfully than fifth-graders. Only problems No. 7, 29 and 30 were solved equally successfully in percentage terms; in the rest, the percentage of correct answers for sixth-graders was higher than for fifth-graders.
Data on the success of assignments for grades 7-8 by 7th grade students:
Data on the completion of the same task by participants - 8th grade students:
A comparative analysis of the success of completing the task shows that the percentage of correctly solved problems is higher among older children, only problem No. 28 was completed more successfully by seventh-graders, and problems No. 23, 24, 25 and 29 were solved equally successfully by children from different parallels.
Information about the success of the assignment for grades 9-10, which ninth-graders worked on:
Success in completing the same task by 10th grade students:
The comparative analysis of the success of completing the task is similar to the previous ones: in solving only one problem No. 30, the younger children turned out to be more successful. Ninth and tenth graders showed the same percentage of correct answers to problems Nos. 5, 12, 16, 24, 25, 27 and 29.
Information about the success of the assignment by 11th grade students:
The following diagram characterizes the level of difficulty of tasks in general. She introduces the average scores for the country for each parallel:
We remind participants and organizers of the competition that the results are preliminary for a month. 1 month after posting on the website, the preliminary results of the competition are declared final and are not subject to any changes.
We draw the attention of all participants, parents and teachers that independent and honest work on the task is the main requirement for the organizers and participants of the competition game. The Organizing Committee regrets that, based on the results of the work of the disqualification commission, cases of violation of the rules of the competition game were once again discovered in certain educational institutions and by individual participants. Fortunately, this year there have been slightly fewer such violations, but elementary schools still continue to suffer from this. Some teachers, in an effort to “help” their students, often cause tears of little participants and justified complaints from their parents. After all, the tasks are designed in such a way that even the most prepared guys rarely complete them completely within the allotted time. Over the many years of Kangaroo, even the winners of international mathematics Olympiads did not always complete them completely in 75 minutes. How can one comment, for example, on the fact that first-graders, who, according to the teachers themselves, are not yet fully trained to read and write, perform the same tasks better than second-graders, as evidenced not only by the analysis of the answers, but also by higher national average. Or this fact: with a number of participants of about 21,000, in parallel 3rd grades across the country, 19 children showed the highest possible result. Of these, from only one institution, 8 participants - third graders - scored 120 maximum possible points. It’s time to send all other teachers to the teacher of these kids at this school for experience. These and other facts indicate that not all teachers and organizers fully understand their responsibility for organizing and conducting not only this, but also other competitions. We are full of confidence that the majority of participants and organizers are honest and conscientious in their participation and organization of our games-competitions.
The organizing committee congratulates all participants in the Kangaroo 2017 game-competition. Each participant will receive a prize “for everyone”. Students who show the best results in their area and in their educational institution will be rewarded with additional prizes. We express our gratitude to the organizers and coordinators of the competition game in districts (cities) and educational institutions, who took a responsible approach to organizing and conducting the competition.
We wish all participants of the competition success in studying mathematics and other disciplines!
When will the Kangaroo math competition (Olympiad) take place in 2017?
Kangaroo Competition 2017
The Kangaroo competition will take place on March 16, 2017. The Kangaroo competition is essentially a mathematics Olympiad in which any student can take part. There is also a test in mathematics, which is called Kangaroo - for graduates, and this testing will take place from January 18 to 21, 2017. This testing is carried out for schoolchildren in grades 4, 9, and 11.
Every year, the Kangaroo International Mathematical Competition is held among all interested schoolchildren.
If you are a schoolchild, studying in grades 2-19 and really love mathematics, then this competition is for you.
The competition with the cheerful name Kangaroo will be held in 2017 on March 16, 2017. These days, from January 18 to 21, Kangaroo testing for graduates is carried out. You definitely need to take part in it, because you have to pass the Unified State Exam. And this will be the starting point, so to speak, for high school students. Kangaroo itself will be available to everyone in March from 2nd grade to graduation. The tasks will be different. Mathematics is an interesting science, especially when you compete with children from other countries!
The Kangaroo Math Competition is held annually, usually in the spring. Usually the Olympiad for schoolchildren falls in March. We participate in it regularly.
I think that in 2017 it will also be held in the middle or end of March.
The Kangaroo Mathematical Competition is considered international. Children from many countries of the world participate in it at will. The main goal of the competition organizers is to attract schoolchildren to solve problems in mathematics and prove to them that it can all be fun and interesting. In January, thanks to the Russian organizing committee, school graduates have the opportunity to take the Kangaroo test. But already in March, namely on the 16th, any interested student from grades 2 to 10 can take part.
The date of the Kangaroo 2017 Mathematics Olympiad is March 2017 (16th).
But already now, October 2016, testing is underway. It is a test to secure your place in the competition and become worthy. Children who have prepared a lot are now awaiting the results and further stages of the competition.
As always, they will be held from second grade to seniors inclusive. Children will be divided into three groups and each will have their own standards.
March 16, 2017 another competition will be held Kangaroo mathematics. I invite everyone who has not yet participated to join. Schools have organizing committees that act as intermediaries between organizers and students. All the necessary information can be found from them or on the official website of the competition. In addition, from September 2016 to March 2017, works of teachers who want to test their strength in the competition are accepted Kangaroo - school. In September-October 2016, Internet testing will be held for fifth and seventh grades called Incoming control. And for graduating classes of primary (4), primary (9) and senior (11) schools from January 16 to January 21, 2017 testing will be carried out Kangaroo - graduates. Good luck in the competition!
The 2017 Kangaroo International Mathematical Competition is being held March 16, 2017.
The competition involves schoolchildren from grades 2 to 10, and anyone who enjoys solving mathematical problems that require thinking can take part.
For preparation purposes, in Russia the organizing committee is conducting additional online entrance testing for students in grades 5 and 7 (in September-October); in January, tests will be conducted among students in transition classes - grades 4, 9 and graduating grade 11.
Additional information can be found here.
Every year, at approximately the same time, the Kangaroo Mathematical Competition (Olympiad) is held. The official date is the third Thursday of March.
It is in this format of the competition that all students from grades 2 to 10 can participate. There is also Kangaroo - for graduates, which is carried out in the form of testing and will take place from January 18 to 21, and Kangaroo School - a competition for teachers, which started in September 2016 and will last until March 2017.
It will be possible to talk about the results only 5 weeks after the Kangaroo 2017 competition (Olympiad).
The Kangaroo Math Olympiad is not at all easy for many and you need to start preparing now if you want to test your knowledge in this competition. The format of this competition will be a test. As a rule, Kangaroo is held in the spring and this year 2017 will be March 16th. The tasks will be for different age groups - (2nd grade, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 grades) schoolchildren, naturally, the older the children, the more difficult the questions will be for them.
In 2017, students in grades 2-10 will take part in the Kangaroo international math competition. The competition itself will take place on March 16.
The purpose of the competition is to clearly show that solving mathematical problems is an exciting activity!
From January 16 to January 21, 2017 Kangaroo testing will take place for graduates for students in grades 4, 9, 11.
March 16, 2017 Grades 3–4. The time allotted for solving problems is 75 minutes!
Problems worth 3 points
№1. Kanga made five addition examples. What is the largest amount?
(A) 2+0+1+7 (B) 2+0+17 (C) 20+17 (D) 20+1+7 (E) 201+7
№2. Yarik marked the path from the house to the lake with arrows on the diagram. How many arrows did he draw incorrectly?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 10
№3. The number 100 was increased by one and a half times, and the result was reduced by half. What happened?
(A) 150 (B) 100 (C) 75 (D) 50 (E) 25
№4. The picture on the left shows beads. Which picture shows the same beads?
№5. Zhenya composed six three-digit numbers from the numbers 2.5 and 7 (the numbers in each number are different). Then she arranged these numbers in ascending order. What number was the third?
(A) 257 (B) 527 (C) 572 (D) 752 (E) 725
№6. The picture shows three squares divided into cells. On the outer squares, some of the cells are painted over, and the rest are transparent. Both of these squares were superimposed on the middle square so that their upper left corners coincided. Which of the figures is still visible?
№7. What is the smallest number of white cells in the picture that must be painted so that there are more painted cells than white ones?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E)5
№8. Masha drew 30 geometric shapes in this order: triangle, circle, square, rhombus, then again a triangle, circle, square, rhombus, and so on. How many triangles did Masha draw?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E)9
№9. From the front, the house looks like the picture on the left. At the back of this house there is a door and two windows. What does it look like from behind?
№10. It's 2017 now. How many years from now will the next year be that does not have the number 0 in its record?
(A) 100 (B) 95 (C) 94 (D) 84 (E)83
Objectives, assessment worth 4 points
№11. Balls are sold in packs of 5, 10 or 25 pieces each. Anya wants to buy exactly 70 balls. What is the smallest number of packages she will have to buy?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
№12. Misha folded a square piece of paper and poked a hole in it. Then he unfolded the sheet and saw what is shown in the picture on the left. What might the fold lines look like?
№13. Three turtles sit on the path at the dots A, IN And WITH(see picture). They decided to gather at one point and find the sum of the distances they had traveled. What is the smallest amount they could get?
(A) 8 m (B) 10 m (C) 12 m (D) 13 m (E) 18 m
№14. Between the numbers 1 6 3 1 7 you need to insert two characters + and two signs × so that you get the biggest result. What is it equal to?
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 26 (D) 28 (E) 126
№15. The strip in the figure is made up of 10 squares with a side of 1. How many of the same squares must be added to it on the right so that the perimeter of the strip becomes twice as large?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 20
№16. Sasha marked a square in the checkered square. It turned out that in its column this cell is the fourth from the bottom and the fifth from the top. In addition, in its row this cell is the sixth from the left. Which one is she on the right?
(A) second (B) third (C) fourth (D) fifth (E) sixth
№17. From a 4 × 3 rectangle, Fedya cut out two identical figures. What kind of figures could he not produce?
№18. Each of the three boys thought of two numbers from 1 to 10. All six numbers turned out to be different. The sum of Andrey’s numbers is 4, Bory’s is 7, Vitya’s is 10. Then one of Vitya’s numbers is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E)6
№19. Numbers are placed in the cells of a 4 × 4 square. Sonya found a 2 × 2 square in which the sum of the numbers is the largest. What is this amount?
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15
№20. Dima was riding a bicycle along the paths of the park. He entered the park through the gate A. During his walk, he turned right three times, left four times, and turned around once. What gate did he go through?
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) the answer depends on the order of turns
Tasks worth 5 points
№21. Several children took part in the race. The number of those who came running before Misha was three times greater than the number of those who came running after him. And the number of those who came running before Sasha is two times less than the number of those who came running after her. How many children could take part in the race?
(A) 21 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 11
№22. Some shaded cells contain one flower. Each white cell contains the number of cells with flowers that have a common side or top with it. How many flowers are hidden?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 11
№23. We will call a three-digit number amazing if among the six digits used to write it and the number following it, there are exactly three ones and exactly one nine. How many amazing numbers are there?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
№24. Each face of the cube is divided into nine squares (see figure). What is the largest number of squares that can be colored such that no two colored squares have a common side?
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 22 (E) 30
№25. A stack of cards with holes is strung on a string (see picture on the left). Each card is white on one side and shaded on the other. Vasya laid out the cards on the table. What could he have done?
№26. A bus leaves from the airport to the bus station every three minutes and takes 1 hour. 2 minutes after the bus departed, a car left the airport and drove 35 minutes to the bus station. How many buses did he overtake?
(A) 12 (B) 11 (C) 10 (D) 8 (E) 7
Millions of children in many countries of the world no longer need to be explained what "Kangaroo", is a massive international mathematical competition-game under the motto - " Mathematics for everyone!.
The main goal of the competition is to attract as many children as possible to solving mathematical problems, to show every student that thinking about a problem can be a lively, exciting, and even fun activity. This goal is achieved quite successfully: for example, in 2009, more than 5.5 million children from 46 countries took part in the competition. And the number of competition participants in Russia exceeded 1.8 million!
Of course, the name of the competition is connected with distant Australia. But why? After all, mass mathematical competitions have been held in many countries for decades, and Europe, where the new competition originated, is so far from Australia! The fact is that in the early 80s of the twentieth century, the famous Australian mathematician and teacher Peter Halloran (1931 - 1994) came up with two very significant innovations that significantly changed traditional school Olympiads. He divided all the problems of the Olympiad into three categories of difficulty, and simple problems should have been accessible to literally every schoolchild. In addition, the tasks were offered in the form of a multiple-choice test, focused on computer processing of the results. The presence of simple but entertaining questions ensured wide interest in the competition, and computer testing made it possible to quickly process a large number of works.
The new form of competition turned out to be so successful that in the mid-80s about 500 thousand Australian schoolchildren took part in it. In 1991, a group of French mathematicians, drawing on Australian experience, held a similar competition in France. In honor of our Australian colleagues, the competition was named “Kangaroo”. To emphasize the entertaining nature of the tasks, they began to call it a competition-game. And one more difference – participation in the competition has become paid. The fee is very small, but as a result, the competition ceased to depend on sponsors, and a significant part of the participants began to receive prizes.
In the first year, about 120 thousand French schoolchildren took part in this game, and soon the number of participants grew to 600 thousand. This began the rapid spread of the competition across countries and continents. Now about 40 countries from Europe, Asia and America are participating in it, and in Europe it is much easier to list countries that do not participate in the competition than those where it has been taking place for many years.
In Russia, the Kangaroo competition was first held in 1994 and since then the number of its participants has been growing rapidly. The competition is part of the “Productive Game Competitions” program of the Institute of Productive Education under the leadership of Academician of the Russian Academy of Education M.I. Bashmakov and is supported by the Russian Academy of Education, the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society and the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.I. Herzen. Direct organizational work was undertaken by the Kangaroo Plus Testing Technology Center.
In our country, a clear structure of mathematical Olympiads has long been established, covering all regions and accessible to every student interested in mathematics. However, these Olympiads, from the regional to the All-Russian, are aimed at identifying the most capable and gifted from students who are already passionate about mathematics. The role of such Olympiads in the formation of the scientific elite of our country is enormous, but the vast majority of schoolchildren remain aloof from them. After all, the problems that are offered there, as a rule, are designed for those who are already interested in mathematics and are familiar with mathematical ideas and methods that go beyond the school curriculum. Therefore, the “Kangaroo” competition, addressed to the most ordinary schoolchildren, quickly won the sympathy of both children and teachers.
The competition tasks are designed so that every student, even those who do not like mathematics, or are even afraid of it, will find interesting and accessible questions for themselves. After all, the main goal of this competition is to interest the children, to instill in them confidence in their abilities, and its motto is “Mathematics for everyone.”
Experience has shown that children are happy to solve competition problems, which successfully fill the vacuum between standard and often boring examples from a school textbook and difficult problems of city and regional mathematical olympiads that require special knowledge and training.