MCAS grade 5 math practice test
A free practice set in the style of grade 5 math on the MCAS: 12 questions in the online formats state tests use, marked as soon as you finish. Nothing is stored.
Grade 5 practice set
12 questions, with no clock. A new set every time, marked when you finish, with the marks by topic.
Have paper and a pencil ready for working out.
What’s on grade 5 math
We couldn’t confirm the MCAS’s own reporting categories for grade 5 on the state’s pages, so the practice set groups its questions by topic:
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Expressions with parentheses, and the order of operations
- Writing expressions from words
- Two number patterns and how their terms are related
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
- Reading, comparing and rounding decimals to thousandths
- Multiplying multi-digit whole numbers
- Dividing by two-digit numbers
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals to hundredths
- Word problems with money
- Money: gross pay, taxes and net pay
Number and Operations: Fractions
- Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
- Word problems with fractions
- Fractions as division: sharing things equally
- Multiplying fractions, and a fraction of an amount
- Dividing unit fractions and whole numbers
Measurement and Data
- Converting measurements, including to decimals
- Line plots with fractions, and problems using them
- Volume of rectangular prisms
Geometry
- Points on the coordinate plane
- Families of shapes and what they share
- The MCAS checks the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.
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.
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