Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

Practice Test

Mathematics

GRADE 4

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School Name

District Name

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This is a practice test. Your responses to practice test questions must be recorded on your Practice Test Answer Document. 

Mark only one answer for each multiple-choice question. If you are not sure of the answer, choose the answer you think is best.

HOW TO ANSWER OPEN-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

• Read all parts of each question carefully.

• Make each response as clear, complete, and accurate as you can.

• Check your answers.



Mathematics

DIRECTIONS This practice test contains one multiple-choice question, one short-answer question, and one open-response question. Mark your answers to these questions in the spaces provided on pages 5 and 6 of your Practice Test Answer Document.


1.  The chart below shows the votes for class president.


Votes for Class President
Candidate		Number of Votes
Marcia			10
Fred				20
Nick				30
Sally				60

Which graph below most accurately reflects this information?


[Votes for Class President Circle Graphs Options A through D]





Question 2 is a short-answer question. Write your answer to this question in the box provided on page 5 of your Practice Test Answer Document. Do not write your answer on any other page. You may do your figuring on any other page.

2.  Write a decimal that is equivalent to the fraction below.

[one fourth]




Question 3 is an open-response question. 

• BE SURE TO ANSWER AND LABEL ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION.

• Show all your work (diagrams, tables, or computations) in your Practice Test Answer Document.

• If you do the work in your head, explain in writing how you did the work.

Write your answer to question 3 in the space provided on page 6 of your Practice Test Answer Document.


3.  Jason drew a closed shape with the properties listed below.

• It has exactly four angles.

• All angles are right angles.

• Opposite sides are congruent.

• Opposite sides are parallel.

a. On the grid in your Practice Test Answer Document, draw a shape that has the same properties as Jason’s shape.

b. On the grid in your Practice Test Answer Document, draw a different shape that also has the same properties as Jason’s shape.

 Jason also drew trapezoid X shown on the grid below.

[Grid with trapezoid X shown.]

c. List 3 properties of trapezoid X.



MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Grade 4
Mathematics
Practice Test Answer Document


School Name: 


District Name:

Last Name of Student:

First Name of Student:

Marking Instructions
•Use a No. 2 pencil only.
•Do not use ink, ballpoint, or felt tip pens. 
•Make solid marks that fill the circles completely.
•Erase cleanly any marks you wish to change.
•Make no stray marks on this form.
•Do not fold, tear, or mutilate this form.





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