Kangaroo 2019 - math for everyone
Mathematical competition "Kangaroo" is held annually and is one of the most popular in the world. About 6 million schoolchildren take part in it, 2 million of which are from the Russian Federation. Everyone who wants can test their strength and take part. The difficulty of the tasks depends on the age of the participants. There are tasks for grades 2, for grades 3 and 4, for grades 5 and 6, for grades 7 and 8, for grades 9 and 10.
Kangaroo 2020
On March 19, 2020, the next competition "Kangaroo 2020" will be held. Summing up will take place within a month after writing in schools. All participants are awarded a certificate, which indicates the place in the country, district and school. In addition, valuable prizes are awarded to the winners and prize-winners. In this section you will be able to get acquainted with the competitive tasks for previous years.
Tasks and answers of the Kangaroo Olympiad 2020
Summing up the results of the 2020 Olympiad will take some time. Tentative results will be summed up by the end of April 2020.
For everyone who wants to know how many points they scored, you can use: Kangaroo Points Calculator.
The tasks of the competition for 2020 will appear on our resource after they are published on the official website.
Testing "Kangaroo graduates" for grades 4, 9 and 11
Date : January 20-25, 2020The Graduate Kangaroo test consists of a 36-question 4th grade, 48-question 9th grade, and 60-question 11th grade test. Each question requires a yes or no answer. To prepare and assess the complexity of testing, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the tasks of previous years.
Tasks and answers of the Kangaroo Olympiad for the past years
| 2019 | ||
| 5-6 grade | ||
| 7-8 grade | ||
| 2018 | ||
| Grade 2 | 3-4 class | 5-6 grade |
| 7-8 grade | 9-10 grade | |
| 2017 | ||
| Grade 2 | 3-4 class | 5-6 grade |
| 7-8 grade | ||
| 2016 | ||
| Grade 2 | 3-4 class | 5-6 grade |
| 7-8 grade | 9-10 grade | |
| 2015 | ||
| Grade 2 | 3-4 class | 5-6 grade |
| 7-8 grade | 9-10 grade | |
| year 2014 | ||
| Grade 2 | ||
On March 16, 2017, schoolchildren will again be able to test their mathematical abilities in the 24th international competition-game "". Like last year, the Olympiad brings together tens of thousands of schoolchildren who compete for the championship at school, in the region, and finally in the country. The tasks include very interesting questions, the level of difficulty of which varies from incredibly simple to the most difficult. However, all problems have the correct answer, which must be found with the help of knowledge in the field of mathematics. It is possible that the questions may be repeated and in some way coincide with the questions of previous years. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with in order to better prepare for the upcoming performance at the competition in the spring. Duration of the Olympiad: 75 minutes.
Competition tasks and results of the Kangaroo competition - 2016 can be found and downloaded on our website in April. The results can only be identified by the Personal Code - so do not forget to get it in advance. You can read more about the Personal Code in the article "
The international mathematical game-competition "Kangaroo-2017" was held in March 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, among them 15 students from our school. The game-competition "Kangaroo" is held to develop and support the interest of schoolchildren in the study of mathematics.
The competition was born in Australia in the 80s, since 1991 it began to be held in France, since 1993 it has become international and is the most massive intellectual competition in the world. Unlike mathematics olympiads, in which, as a rule, the strongest students take part, all interested students of grades 1-11 can participate in the Kangaroo competition.
Congratulations to all participants of the game-competition "Kangaroo-2017". Each participant received a prize "for all". Students who have shown the best results in their area and in the educational institution are encouraged with additional prizes.
We wish success to all participants of the competition in the study of mathematics and other disciplines!
The results of the contest-game "Kangaroo-2017"
Accounting, measurements, calculations, people began to use 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 opened access to public service and to a prosperous life. Only children of wealthy parents could attend schools. The first schools appeared at the palaces of the pharaohs, later - at temples and large state institutions. The future pharaoh, despite his sacred and divine status, did not have any concessions and 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 that the teacher brought to him on papyrus (a school notebook of that time), and there were no more important things until all the problems were solved. This knowledge was necessary for the competent management of a great state.
Today, mathematicians around the world are making efforts to popularize this science. "Math for everyone!" - this is the motto of the international association "Kangaroo without borders" (KSF - Le Kangourou sans Frontieres), which today already includes 81 countries.
Sometimes life brings pleasant surprises.
My youngest son won International Mathematical Olympiad "Kangaroo-2016" by earning 100 points. Absolute result.
It is believed that for men, numbers are more important than feelings or emotions.
Therefore, as a man, I should immediately go to the statistics of the Olympiad, analysis of problems, analysis of solutions ...
A little bit later.
And now I will not dissemble and, like a man, with a restrained dryness, I will say:
I'm very pleased. 
Who creates myths about "masculinity"?
"Majority", "gray mass", which, in the words of Franklin Roosevelt, 32 President of the United States,
"He can neither enjoy from the heart, nor suffer
because he lives in gray darkness,
where there is neither victory nor defeat.
Emotions are the essence human life. Contact with reality, with Life generates emotions. Those who do not feel do not experience emotions.
Such a person is either not alive, or an official.
Both my grandfather and my father, who went through the Second World War, happened to not hide their emotions when talking about it.
The athlete who won the hardest fight, standing on the pedestal, does not hide tears of joy.
Why should I be hypocritical? I am very pleased and I feel proud of my son.
School education has completely discredited itself.
The impact of school grades on the fate of the child is minimal or negative. Any school evaluation is no more important to me than the opinion of any of the representatives of the "majority".
But the Olympics are a different reality. Here the child can really show his abilities, will, ability to overcome himself and the desire to win...
Therefore, for the development of the child, the formation of his self-esteem, the Olympiads have a completely different meaning ...
100 points is good and pleasant.
But even just participate in the Olympics, where there is nowhere to write off and no one to ask and ... to score these very points more than the "Average" - for a child this is already a victory. An important milestone in its development. The first experience of victories. Seeds of success that will inevitably sprout in his adult life.
To give a child the experience of such independence is closer to the concept of "Education" than the entire program of a modern school that stereotypes the child's thinking, kills his abilities in the bud and minimizes the chances of becoming a truly successful and happy person.
Therefore, when, a week after the announcement of the results of the Kangaroo Mathematical Olympiad, my son took second place in the boxing tournament, I was no less happy, and maybe even more.
Yes, he could not outplay on points an opponent who was older and more experienced. But the judging panel of the competition, among whose members were two world champions, awarded the son special prize: "For the will to win".
Self-confidence, and not fear of "bad evaluation" - this is what true education should be directed to. Because it is this quality that will allow a child to become successful in adulthood, and not slide into a "gray mass that knows neither victories nor defeats" ...
And it doesn't matter where this quality is formed: in math or boxing classes...
Or even chess...
Therefore, when it turned out that my son reached the final of the Grand Prix Cup of the Russian Chess School, I was also happy. This time in the final, he failed to take a prize. “But still,” I said to myself, “To reach the final after a six-month series of qualifying rounds is not so bad, what do you think? ..”
...Too early and too narrow specialization is the enemy of natural and effective human development.
Even in agriculture for that. in order to avoid soil depletion and maintain its productivity for many years, the so-called. "Crop rotation", sowing different crops in one field...
Even if Vitali Klitschko, the world heavyweight champion, has a chess rank and is able to hold out with ex-world chess champion Garry Kasparov for 31 moves ... why can't an ordinary boy develop legs, arms and head at the same time - for the benefit of "everything yourself"?
What ordinary peasants have understood for thousands of years, unfortunately, is not understood by most teachers and parents ... Otherwise, we would live in a different society, more reasonable and happy.
And with fewer officials on one human soul.
Sometimes I hear: "Oh, what a capable child! .."
What are you all about?!
Remembering and paraphrasing Professor Preobrazhensky from The Heart of a Dog, I will say:
What are your "Abilities"? Kindergarten teacher? A school teacher with a diploma from a pedagogical university that has eroded the remnants of rationality and humanism? Yes, they do not exist at all! What do you mean by this word? This is what: if I, instead of raising and educating my own child every day, let the aforementioned "specialists" do it, then after a while I will find "lack of abilities" in him. Therefore, "ability" is in your desire to raise your own child and in understanding how to do it correctly.
This is what I will talk about in a series of open summer webinars on school education.
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.
Accounting, measurements, calculations, people began to use 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 opened access to public service and to a prosperous life. Only children of wealthy parents could attend schools. The first schools appeared at the palaces of the pharaohs, later - at temples and large government institutions. The future pharaoh, despite his sacred and divine status, did not have any concessions and 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 that the teacher brought to him on papyrus (a school notebook of that time), and there were no more important things until all the problems were solved. This knowledge was necessary for the competent management of a great state.
Today, mathematicians around the world are making efforts to popularize this science. "Math for everyone!" - this is the motto of the international association "Kangaroo without borders" (KSF - Le Kangourou sans Frontieres), which now includes 81 countries.
On March 16, children from different countries tried their hand at solving problems prepared by the best teachers and teachers and approved at the annual conference of the KSF member countries. It is pleasant to note that in terms of the number of tasks selected for tasks of six age levels, a group of Belarusian mathematicians came out on top.
In our country, 143,591 students solved problems that day, which is 6,759 more than in the previous competition. The 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 is 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:
Recall that according to the rules of the competition, all tasks in the task are conditionally divided into three levels of complexity: simple, each of which is estimated at 3 points; more complex tasks, the solution of which sometimes requires a good knowledge of the school curriculum in mathematics (estimated at 4 points); complex, non-standard tasks, for the solution of which you need to show ingenuity, the ability to reason, analyze (estimated at 5 points). The success of the tasks is reflected in the following diagrams.
Information about the success of the assignment for grades 1-2, on which the youngest participants worked:
The success of the same task by students of grade 2:
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 tasks (a third of the task out of 24 tasks), and 8 more tasks (another third of the task) were solved equally successfully. Only with tasks Nos. 1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 19 second-graders who study mathematics for a year longer did better than first-graders.
The percentage of correctly solved task tasks for 3-4 grades by third-graders:
The success of the same task by students of grade 4:
In this task, fourth-graders confirmed a higher level of knowledge compared to third-graders, having coped more successfully with all tasks in percentage terms.
Statistical data on the completion of the assignment for grades 5-6 by students in grade 5:
The success of the same task by students of grade 6:
In this task, the sixth graders also confirmed that they had acquired knowledge over the year, having successfully completed the task compared to the fifth graders. Only problems Nos. 7, 29 and 30 were solved equally successfully in percentage terms; in the rest, the percentage of correct answers for sixth-graders is higher than for fifth-graders.
Data on the success of the assignment for grades 7-8 by students in grade 7:
Data on the performance of the same task by participants - students of grade 8:
A comparative analysis of the success of the assignment shows that the percentage of correctly solved problems is higher for older children, only the seventh-graders coped with task No. 28 more successfully, and tasks Nos. 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:
The success of the same task by students of grade 10:
Comparative analysis of the success of completing the task is similar to the previous ones: in solving only one problem No. 30, the younger guys were more successful. The ninth-graders and tenth-graders showed the same percentage of correct answers to tasks No. 5, 12, 16, 24, 25, 27 and 29.
Information about the success of the assignment by students in grade 11:
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 the participants and organizers of the competition that during the month the results are preliminary. 1 month after posting on the site, the preliminary results of the competition are declared final and 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 following the results of the work of the disqualification commission, cases of violation of the rules of the game-competition in certain educational institutions and individual participants were once again discovered. Fortunately, this year such violations have become a little less, but the elementary school continues to suffer from this. Some teachers, in an effort to "help" their students, often bring tears to the little participants and legitimate complaints from their parents. After all, the tasks are designed in such a way that even the most prepared guys rarely complete them completely in the allotted time. Over the many years of holding Kangaroo, even the winners of international mathematical Olympiads did not always complete them in 75 minutes. How can one comment, for example, on the fact that first-graders, who, according to the teachers themselves, are still not very well trained in reading and writing, perform the same tasks better than second-graders, as evidenced not only by the analysis of answers, but also by a higher average score for the country. Or this fact: with the number of participants of about 21,000 in parallel 3 classes across the country, 19 children showed the highest possible result. Of these, only from one institution, 8 participants - third-graders scored 120 maximum possible points. It's time to send these guys to the teacher in this school all the other teachers for experience. These and other facts indicate that not all teachers and organizers fully understand their responsibility for organizing and holding not only this, but also other competitions. We are full of confidence that the majority of participants and organizers have an honest and conscientious attitude to the participation and organization of our contest games.
The Organizing Committee congratulates all participants of the game-competition "Kangaroo-2017". Each participant will receive a prize "for all". The top performing students in their area and school will be rewarded with additional prizes. We express our gratitude to the organizers-coordinators of the game-competition in the districts (cities) and in educational institutions, who took a responsible attitude to the organization and conduct of the competition.
We wish success to all participants of the competition in the study of mathematics and other disciplines!
