CAASPP grade 3 math practice test
A free practice set in the style of grade 3 math on the CAASPP: 12 questions in the online formats state tests use, marked as soon as you finish. Nothing is stored.
Grade 3 practice set
12 questions, with no clock. A new set every time, marked when you finish, with the marks by CAASPP’s categories.
Have paper and a pencil ready for working out.
What’s on grade 3 math
The CAASPP reports grade 3 math in 2 categories. The practice set covers each of them:
Concepts and Procedures
- Multiplication and division facts within 100
- Finding the unknown number in a multiplication or division equation
- Rounding to the nearest 10 or 100
- Adding and subtracting within 1,000
- Multiplying by multiples of 10
- Fractions as equal parts of a whole
- Fractions on a number line
- Area by counting unit squares and by multiplying
Mathematical Practices
problem solving, modeling and data analysis, communicating reasoning
- Word problems with equal groups and arrays
- Word problems that share or group things equally
- Using the properties of multiplication to find products
- Two-step word problems with all four operations
- Patterns in the multiplication table
- Word problems with adding and subtracting
- Comparing fractions and finding equal fractions
- Time to the minute and elapsed time
- Word problems with grams, kilograms and liters
- Reading scaled picture graphs and bar graphs
- Perimeter of rectangles and other shapes
- Kinds of quadrilaterals, and what their sides and angles have in common
- Money: earning, saving and spending
- The CAASPP checks the California Common Core State Standards.
- Calculators: No calculator in grades 3-5. Grades 6-8 mix calculator and non-calculator items, with an embedded Desmos calculator on calculator items.
How to help at home
Do one set, then talk
After a set, look at the ones they missed together. Ask how they got their answer before saying what the right one is.
Little and often
A short set a few times a week does more than a long session the week before.
Use real life
Prices at the store, recipes, distances and times on a trip: grade-level math is everywhere.
Keep it calm
The test checks how the year went. A good night’s sleep helps more than cramming.
For the real test’s screens and tools, try the state’s official practice.
Other grades
See Thena explain the ones they missed
With an account, Thena goes over every question your child gets wrong: she puts it back on her board, finds the slip and works it through out loud, then gives them one like it to do alone.
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