Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Practice Test Mathematics Science and Technology/Engineering GRADE 5 Student Name School Name District Name [MCAS Star logo] 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. • Support your responses. • Check your answers. Mathematics DIRECTIONS This part of the 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 7 and 8 of your Practice Test Answer Document. 1 Paula uses the rule below to estimate the distance of a thunderstorm from her location. Paula’s Rule Count the number of seconds between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder. For every 5 seconds counted, the storm is 1 mile away. Based on Paula’s rule, which of the following tables shows the relationship between the number of seconds counted and the distance of the thunderstorm? A. [Thunderstorm Distance table] B. [Thunderstorm Distance table] C. [Thunderstorm Distance table] D. [Thunderstorm Distance table] Question 2 is a short-answer question. Write your answer to this question in the box provided on page 7 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 What is the value of [Answer box] that makes the equation below true? [thirty-seven minus answer box equals twenty-five] 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 8 of your Practice Test Answer Document. 3 Kelsey plans to make 16 bows for gifts that she will wrap. Each bow will use 18 inches of ribbon. Ribbon for bows is sold by the yard. a. How many inches of ribbon will Kelsey need for all 16 bows? Show or explain how you got your answer. b. How many yards of ribbon will Kelsey need for all 16 bows? Show or explain how you got your answer. Science and Technology/Engineering DIRECTIONS This part of the practice test contains two multiple-choice questions and one open-response question. Mark your answers to these questions in the spaces provided on page 10 of your Practice Test Answer Document. 1 Rayna is collecting seeds from a sunflower. She notices that most of the leaves on the sunflower plant have patterns of holes made by chewing insects, as shown in the picture below. [Picture of a sunflower] Next year, she will plant the sunflower seeds that she has collected. How many of the sunflower plants that grow are expected to inherit the chewed leaf pattern? A. all of the plants B. most of the plants C. half of the plants D. none of the plants 2 The circuit diagram below shows D-cells connected to four light bulbs and four different materials labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4. [Circuit diagram] Which of the four materials is acting as an insulator rather than a conductor? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 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 10 of your Practice Test Answer Document. 3 Rosa wants to measure the depth of the well in her backyard. To help her find the depth of the well, Rosa gathered her tape measure and several objects from around her house. Her tape measure is 12 ft. long, but the well is deeper than 12 ft. The well and the objects that Rosa gathered are shown below. [Measured objects from Rosa's backyard] a. Identify which of these objects Rosa can use with her tape measure to find the depth of the well. b. Explain how Rosa can use her tape measure and each object you identified in part (a) to find the depth of the well. MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM Grade 5 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. 1. A B C D 2. DO NOT WRITE IN SHADED AREA Please go to the next page to answer the next question for this test. 3. MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM Grade 5 Science and Technology/Engineering 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. 1. A B C D 2. A B C D 3. NO TEST MATERIAL ON THIS PAGE