Smarter Balanced grade 3 math practice test
A free practice set in the style of grade 3 math on the Smarter Balanced tests: 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 Smarter Balanced’s categories.
Have paper and a pencil ready for working out.
What’s on grade 3 math
The Smarter Balanced tests report grade 3 math in 3 categories. The practice set covers each of them:
Claim 1: 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
Claims 2 and 4: Problem Solving and Modeling and Data Analysis
- Word problems with equal groups and arrays
- Word problems that share or group things equally
- Two-step word problems with all four operations
- Word problems with adding and subtracting
- 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
- Money: earning, saving and spending
Claim 3: Communicating Reasoning
- Using the properties of multiplication to find products
- Patterns in the multiplication table
- Comparing fractions and finding equal fractions
- Kinds of quadrilaterals, and what their sides and angles have in common
- The Smarter Balanced tests check the Common Core State Standards (or each member's version of them).
- The real grade 3 test: About 35-40 questions on the full blueprint: Concepts and Procedures 17-20 (grades 3-5) or 16-20 (grades 6-8); Problem Solving with Modeling and Data Analysis 8-10; Communicating Reasoning 8-10 (those two together 18-20). One performance task of 4-6 items is included. The adjusted blueprint cuts the adaptive part by about half.
- Calculators: No calculator in grades 3-5. Grades 6-8 mix calculator and non-calculator items, given in separate segments.
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.
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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