CAASPP grade 6 math practice test
A free practice set in the style of grade 6 math on the CAASPP: 12 questions in the online formats state tests use, marked as soon as you finish. Nothing is stored.
Grade 6 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 6 math
The CAASPP reports grade 6 math in 2 categories. The practice set covers each of them:
Concepts and Procedures
- Unit rates, including unit prices and speed
- Finding a percent of a number, and the whole from a part
- Fractions, decimals and percents that are equal
- Dividing fractions by fractions
- Multiplying and dividing multi-digit decimals
- Greatest common factor and least common multiple
- The coordinate plane in all four quadrants
- Exponents, and the value of an expression for a given number
- Solving one-step equations
- Area of triangles, parallelograms and trapezoids
- Volume of prisms with fraction edge lengths
- Mean, median and range of a data set
Mathematical Practices
problem solving, modeling and data analysis, communicating reasoning
- Ratios and equivalent ratios
- Negative numbers, ordering and absolute value
- Equivalent expressions and the distributive property
- Two quantities that change together: tables and equations
- Surface area from nets
- Statistical questions, which expect answers that vary
- Dot plots and what they show
- Money: saving, balances and paying back a loan
- 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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