Version B — Grade 3 Math Practice Test

1. A bookshelf has 6 shelves. Each shelf holds 9 books. How many books are on the shelf in all?

A) 54 B) 56 C) 63 D) 15

2. What is 72 ÷ 8?

A) 8 B) 9 C) 7 D) 6

3. A library has 312 books. It receives 145 new books. How many books does the library have now?

A) 167 B) 457 C) 447 D) 557

4. Which fraction represents one-third?

A) 1/2 B) 2/6 C) 1/3 D) 3/9

5. A garden is 6 m long and 5 m wide. What is the area?

A) 22 m² B) 30 m² C) 11 m² D) 36 m²

6. What is 300 + 80 + 7?

A) 387 B) 378 C) 830 D) 3,087

7. Which is true about the number 0?

A) 0 × 5 = 5 B) 0 + 5 = 0 C) 0 × 5 = 0 D) 5 ÷ 0 = 0

8. Which two shapes always have 4 right angles?

A) Square and rhombus B) Square and rectangle C) Rectangle and parallelogram D) Triangle and square

9. Sam has 56 trading cards. He puts them equally into 7 binders. How many cards go in each binder?

A) 6 B) 7 C) 8 D) 9

10. A class has 5 tables with 4 students each. 3 students are absent. How many students are present?

A) 17 B) 23 C) 20 D) 12

11. What is the perimeter of a rectangle with length 8 m and width 3 m?

A) 11 m B) 22 m C) 24 m D) 44 m

12. Which fraction is closest to 0?

A) 7/8 B) 1/2 C) 1/8 D) 3/4

13. Students tallied their favorite sports. Soccer: 12, Basketball: 9, Swimming: 6, Tennis: 3. How many students voted altogether?

A) 28 B) 30 C) 32 D) 26

14. What is the place value of the 5 in 529?

A) ones B) tens C) hundreds D) thousands

15. Which expression equals 36?

A) 4 × 8 B) 6 × 6 C) 9 × 3 D) 7 × 5

16. A floor is 10 ft × 10 ft. One square tile is 2 ft × 2 ft. How many tiles are needed?

A) 20 B) 25 C) 50 D) 100

17. On a number line, which point represents 3/4?

A) Between 0 and 1/4 B) Exactly at 1/2 C) Between 1/2 and 1 D) After 1

18. A store sold 127 items on Monday and 94 items on Tuesday. How many more items were sold on Monday?

A) 33 B) 43 C) 221 D) 23

19. A team scores 4 points per goal. They scored 7 goals. Which equation represents the total points?

A) 4 + 7 = 11 B) 7 ÷ 4 = 1 R3 C) 4 × 7 = 28 D) 7 − 4 = 3

20. What is the value of the 9 in 897?

A) 9 B) 90 C) 900 D) 9,000

21. A pictograph shows each symbol equals 4 students. There are 5 symbols for 'dogs.' How many students chose dogs?

A) 9 B) 15 C) 20 D) 25

22. A rectangle has area 42 sq ft. One side is 7 ft. What is the other side?

A) 5 ft B) 6 ft C) 7 ft D) 8 ft

23. Which number is between 3/4 and 1 on a number line?

A) 1/4 B) 1/2 C) 7/8 D) 5/4

24. Which shows a true number sentence using the associative property of multiplication?

A) (2 × 3) × 4 = 2 × (3 × 4) B) 2 × 3 = 3 + 2 C) (2 × 3) × 4 = 2 + 3 + 4 D) 2 × 3 × 0 = 6

25. Jenna reads 8 pages each day for 6 days. Then she reads 12 more pages. How many pages total?

A) 56 B) 60 C) 64 D) 48

1. A pattern starts: 2, 6, 18, 54, __. What is the next number?

A) 108 B) 162 C) 72 D) 90

2. Which of the following is closest to 300?

A) 248 B) 289 C) 316 D) 355

3. Rosa earned $5 each day for 6 days and spent $8. How much does she have left?

A) $22 B) $23 C) $24 D) $30

4. Which fraction is equivalent to 4/8?

A) 1/3 B) 2/4 C) 3/6 D) 1/2

5. What is the area of a square with side 5 cm?

A) 10 cm² B) 20 cm² C) 25 cm² D) 30 cm²

26. What is 9 times the number of days in one week?

This question is worth 1 credit.

27. A rectangle has an area of 36 sq cm and a length of 9 cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?

This question is worth 1 credit.

28. Write the fraction 4/8 in its simplest form.

This question is worth 1 credit.

29. A coach orders T-shirts for 5 teams. Each team has 9 players. The shirts come in packs of 3. How many packs does the coach need? Show your work.

This question is worth 2 credits.

30. Draw a rectangle with a perimeter of 16 cm and label its dimensions. What is the area of your rectangle?

This question is worth 2 credits.

31. Lily has 2/6 of a ribbon and Zara has 5/6 of a ribbon. Who has more ribbon? How do you know? Use a diagram or number line to explain.

This question is worth 2 credits.

32. A school store has pencils for $0.25 each and erasers for $0.50 each. A student buys 4 pencils and 2 erasers. How much does the student spend in total? Show your work.

This question is worth 2 credits.

33. A baker makes 6 trays of muffins. Each tray has 8 muffins. She puts equal numbers of muffins into 4 boxes. (a) How many muffins does she make in all? (b) How many muffins go in each box? (c) If she sells each muffin for $2, what is the total amount she earns from one box? Show all work.

This question is worth 3 credits.

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