NJSLA-A grade 3 math practice test
A free practice set in the style of grade 3 math on the NJSLA-A: 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 NJSLA-A’s categories.
Have paper and a pencil ready for working out.
What’s on grade 3 math
The NJSLA-A reports grade 3 math in 4 categories. The practice set covers each of them:
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Multiplication and division facts within 100
- Finding the unknown number in a multiplication or division equation
- 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
- Money: earning, saving and spending
Number and Operations in Base Ten and Number and Operations - Fractions
- Rounding to the nearest 10 or 100
- Adding and subtracting within 1,000
- Word problems with adding and subtracting
- Multiplying by multiples of 10
- Fractions as equal parts of a whole
- Fractions on a number line
- Comparing fractions and finding equal fractions
Measurement
- Time to the minute and elapsed time
- Word problems with grams, kilograms and liters
- Area by counting unit squares and by multiplying
- Perimeter of rectangles and other shapes
Geometry and Data Literacy
reported for groups only
- Reading scaled picture graphs and bar graphs
- Kinds of quadrilaterals, and what their sides and angles have in common
- The NJSLA-A checks the New Jersey Student Learning Standards (2023 NJSLS for ELA and mathematics).
- The real grade 3 test: 41 items
- Calculators: No calculator in grades 3-5. A basic four-function calculator in grade 6; check grades 7-8 with your school.
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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