K-6 Math PreTest

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40 questions
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K-6 Subject Area Math Pretest
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Mr. Green requires his 4th grade students to complete a timed multiplication drill with the same 100 facts every week. The drills are scored and the amount the student gets correct is compared to the previous week’s drill. What component of mathematics fluency is most likely the goal of this type of assessment?

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Eric and Deshon both collect comic books. Deshon has four times as many comic books as Eric. If Deshon has 36 comic books, how many does Eric have?

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A kindergarten class is learning how to sort objects by categories such as shape, color, and size. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate to begin teaching students how to sort?

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Which of the following skills is considered the higher level of geometric thinking?

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Students in the 4th grade are learning to round whole numbers. What should students in the 5th grade be expected to do as the next step in this learning progression?

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As students explore division with whole numbers and unit fractions, explicit instruction is not recommended to include which of the following?

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A plane goes 700 miles an hour. A car goes 50 miles an hour. How many times faster than the car is the plane?

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Five children share 15 apple slices evenly. How many apple slices does each child get?

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I have 10 ounces of cinnamon. If I put 2 ounces of cinnamon in each jar, how many jars can be filled?

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Simplify the expression (4 x 3) – 10 ÷ 5

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Xochitl purchased 2 boxes of candy, 24 cans of soda, and 3 boxes of chips for the school’s snack cart. She would like to compute how much change she would receive from a $50 bill. Which operation should she use first?

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Suppose we wanted to subtract 42 from 95. One way to solve this subtraction problem is to think: 95 = 90 + 5 and 42 = 40 + 2 so 90 – 40 + 5 – 2 = 53.
What type of strategy is being taught?

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Which of the following is not equivalent to 14/6

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Which equation illustrates the commutative property of multiplication?

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Which equation illustrates the identity property of multiplication?

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Paloma reasons that the product of 82 x 0.56 will be greater than 41 and less than 82. What strategy is she using to come to this conclusion?

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Mrs. Samuel is drawing a scaled map to show the distance between a few cities in Florida. Jacksonville is approximately 140 miles from Orlando and 350 miles from Miami. If the distance from Jacksonville to Orlando on the map is 7 inches, how many inches should Jacksonville to Miami be on the map?

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Elijah is completing his homework for the week. He completed 40% of his homework in 8 hours. If he continues to work at the same speed, how many hours will it take for him to finish?

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Which of the following numbers represents 68 hundredths?

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Tyler has 45 questions on his math assessment. It took him 15 minutes to complete 9 questions. At this rate, how long will it take Tyler to complete his assessment?

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The ratio of candy bars to chip bags being sold at a school dance was 5 to 3. There was a total of 75 chip bags. How many candy bars were for sale at the dance?

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On Thursday, Tatianna wrote 3.75 pages of her research paper. On Friday, she realized that 1 ¼ of her paper was accidentally deleted. How much more of her 5-page paper does she need to complete by Monday?

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Which fraction below is not equivalent to 2/3?

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Which item below would be measured in integers?

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30% of 145 survey participants chose leisure as the reason they travel. About how many people is that?

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Which measurement would best describe the length of a football field?

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Estimate the mass of a crayon.

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Ivan wants to get an accurate picture of household salaries in his neighborhood for a research project. The salaries for people in his neighborhood are 85,000, 92,000, 100,000, 58,000, and 95,000. What statistic will most accurately describe the data?

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At her birthday party, Isabella asked her friends to share their favorite Taylor Swift song. Which measure of central tendency should Isabella use to determine which song is the most popular?

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A 12-foot square patio is to be covered with square tiles measuring 12 inches on each side. If each tile costs $1.25, how much will it cost to tile the patio?

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A rectangular prism has a base of 12 units and a height of 3 units. What is the volume of the prism?

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Two vertices of a triangle are plotted on a coordinate plane. The first at (0,4) and the second at (4,0). Which of the following ordered pairs would result in a right triangle?

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There is a shape plotted at (-5, -2) on a coordinate plane. In what quadrant is the pentagon located?

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A student is plotting the vertices of a rectangle on a coordinate grid. The first 3 points she plots are (2, -1), (-2, -1) and (2, 1). In what quadrant should the last vertex be plotted?

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The primary bedroom is 3 times as long and 2 1/4 times as wide as a bathroom. The amount of flooring needed for the primary bedroom is how many times greater than the amount of flooring needed for the bathroom?

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Marley is building a rectangular fence around their backyard. They have 240 feet of materials and wants the length of the fence to be 80 ft long. What is the area of the backyard?

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What is the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of 32 m and width of 20 m?

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How many vertices does a triangular prism have?

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Which 3-dimensional shape has the following properties?
· 6 faces
· 9 edges
· 6 vertices

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What is the name of a shape with:
· One set of parallel lines.
· The angles on either side of the bases are not right.
· The diagonals are not always congruent.