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Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Mathematics Grade 4

Place value, multi-digit operations, fractions, decimals, area, and angles.

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  1. 1.A class in Quincy collected 748 box tops in September and 356 box tops in October. How many box tops did the class collect in those two months?

  2. 2.A Barnstable ferry tally shows the number 5,482. Which digit is in the hundreds place?

  3. 3.The path from the visitor board to the far stone wall at the Old North Bridge in Concord is 915 feet. A class has walked 478 feet. How many feet are left?

  4. 4.A baker in the North End packs 24 cannoli in each box and fills 7 boxes for a school fair. How many cannoli is that?

  5. 5.A librarian in Worcester sets out 96 bookmarks in 6 equal stacks. How many bookmarks are in each stack?

  6. 6.A school store in Lowell had 700 pencils. Students bought 268 of them. How many pencils are left?

  7. 7.A mural uses 3/10 of a wall for trees and 4/10 for sky. The regions do not overlap. What fraction of the wall do they cover?

  8. 8.Gardeners at the Boston Public Garden cover an 8-foot by 5-foot rectangular plot with 1-foot squares. How many squares cover the plot?

  9. 9.How many feet of wooden border go around a rectangular sandbox in Somerville that is 12 feet long and 3 feet wide?

  10. 10.A paint label lists 7/100 liter of blue dye. Which decimal gives that amount?

  11. 11.A scout troop in Plymouth sets 6 rows of chairs with 50 chairs in each row. How many chairs are set out?

  12. 12.A boat model uses 0.6 meter of string. Which fraction is equivalent to that length?

  13. 13.Which number is greater than 0.38 but less than 0.5?

  14. 14.A library activity in Arlington uses the number 36,415. What is the value of the digit 6?

  15. 15.On Saturday a farm stand in Stow sold 1,285 apples. On Sunday it sold 467 apples. How many apples were sold on those two days?

  16. 16.A summit sign on Mount Greylock reads 3,491 feet. A trailhead board in Adams reads 1,268 feet. How many feet higher is the summit than that board?

  17. 17.Each crate from a Gloucester pier holds 36 fish. A market buys 4 crates. How many fish is that?

  18. 18.A teacher in New Bedford divides 56 paintbrushes into groups of 8. How many groups is that?

  19. 19.A class has 5/6 pan of cornbread and serves 2/6 pan. What fraction of the original pan remains?

  20. 20.A classroom rug in Amherst is 11 feet long and 6 feet wide. What is the area of the rug?

  21. 21.Gardeners in Deerfield want a fence on every side of a rectangular herb bed that is 15 feet long and 4 feet wide. How many feet of fence do they need?

  22. 22.A hiker walks 1 3/8 miles to a pond and 2 2/8 miles onward. What distance does the hiker walk?

  23. 23.A ribbon is 2 1/5 yards long. After 4/5 yard is cut off, how much remains?

  24. 24.A commuter train from South Station to Worcester carries 346 passengers in the first set of cars and 278 in the second set. How many passengers is that altogether?

  25. 25.Teams on the Minuteman Bikeway run a 412-meter relay. One team has covered 187 meters. How many meters remain?

  26. 26.A cranberry bog crew in Carver fills 25 barrels a day for 8 days. How many barrels is that?

  27. 27.Volunteers in Pittsfield put 84 trail markers into bags of 7. How many bags do they fill?

  28. 28.A sign painter needs 2/3 cup of green paint for each panel. How much paint is needed for 4 panels?

  29. 29.Ribbon outlines a rectangular ticket window at a fair in the Fenway. The window is 9 feet long and 2 feet wide. How long must the ribbon be?

  30. 30.A number line is divided into tenths. Where should 43/100 be placed?

  31. 31.Which comparison is correct for two pieces measured in the same unit?

  32. 32.A decimal grid has 100 equal squares. Students shade 9 squares red and 26 blue, without overlap. What decimal represents all shaded squares?

  33. 33.A chart in Braintree lists four numbers. Which number has a 9 in the tens place?

  34. 34.A rectangular vegetable bed in Hadley is 7 meters long and 6 meters wide. What is the perimeter of the bed?

  35. 35.During a book drive, Cambridge collected 2,476 books and Somerville collected 1,385 books. How many books were collected together?

  36. 36.A warehouse in Taunton stored 5,000 cans for a food pantry. Workers loaded 2,746 cans onto a truck. How many cans stayed in the warehouse?

  37. 37.Each of 9 classrooms in Haverhill receives 48 pencils. How many pencils is that in all?

  38. 38.A coach in Brookline splits 63 players into equal teams of 9. How many teams are there?

  39. 39.A student says 2/8 + 3/8 = 5/16. Which explanation corrects the mistake?

  40. 40.Which expression shows 4/7 as a sum of unit fractions?

  41. 41.A carpenter measures 2/10 meter plus 47/100 meter. What is the total?

  42. 42.A rectangular sign beside Walden Pond is 14 inches long and 5 inches wide. What is the sum of its four sides?

  43. 43.A place-value card at a school in Marlborough shows 40,000 + 3,000 + 80 + 5. What number is that?

  44. 44.A food pantry in Lawrence received 809 cans on Monday and 596 cans on Tuesday. How many cans arrived on those two days?

  45. 45.A library in Northampton had 1,203 visitors in May and 875 visitors in June. How many more visitors came in May?

  46. 46.A print shop in Waltham makes 15 copies of a 12-page walking map of the Charles River. How many pages are printed?

  47. 47.Friends share 72 blueberries picked in Wareham. Each friend gets 8 blueberries. How many friends get a share?

  48. 48.Which pair contains two fractions equivalent to 2/3?

  49. 49.A line plot shows four ribbon pieces: 1/4, 1/4, 3/4, and 3/4 yard. What is their combined length?

  50. 50.The sides of a rectangular frame for a map of Cape Ann measure 18 centimeters, 7 centimeters, 18 centimeters, and 7 centimeters. What is the perimeter?

  51. 51.Two identical trays are filled to 5/8 and 2/3 of their capacities. Which tray holds more?

  52. 52.Which fraction is equal to 0.24?

  53. 53.A student orders decimals as 0.9, 0.82, 0.76 from least to greatest. Which correction is needed?

  54. 54.Students in Leominster build 1,000 with hundred-flats. How many hundred-flats do they need?

  55. 55.On a field trip, 156 students from Quincy and 89 students from Milton meet at the New England Aquarium. How many students meet there?

  56. 56.A clam flat in Ipswich yielded 640 pounds last week and 275 pounds this week. How many more pounds were gathered last week?

  57. 57.A bike shop on Nantucket rents 32 helmets a day for 6 days. How many rentals is that?

  58. 58.A baker in Beverly cuts 54 rolls into packs of 6. How many packs does that make?

  59. 59.A class divides a flag into 12 equal sections and colors 8. What simpler fraction names the colored part?

  60. 60.A garden has 6 rows, each using 3/5 bag of compost. How many bags are used?

  61. 61.A rectangular garden gate in Stockbridge is 8 feet tall and 3 feet wide. What is the distance around the gate?

  62. 62.A 4 2/6-foot board is shortened by 1 5/6 feet. What length remains?

  63. 63.A picture shows 10 equal strips, with 7 colored. Which hundredths fraction represents the same part?

  64. 64.A swimmer completes 0.30 kilometer and another completes 0.3 kilometer. How do these distances compare?

  65. 65.A fundraiser board in Lexington shows 87,654. Which digit is in the thousands place?

  66. 66.Workers near the French King Bridge counted 4,380 cars one morning and 2,547 cars that afternoon. How many cars did they count?

  67. 67.A mill in Lowell used 8,050 gallons of water on Monday and 3,286 gallons on Tuesday. How many more gallons were used on Monday?

  68. 68.A science kit from the Museum of Science has 27 beads. A teacher orders 5 kits for a class in Malden. How many beads arrive?

  69. 69.A farm in Bolton packs 108 apples into bags of 9. How many bags is that?

  70. 70.A trail marker divides a whole mile into fifths. Which statement correctly locates 7/5 miles?

  71. 71.One angle turns 28 degrees and an adjacent angle turns 46 degrees. Together, what angle do they form?

  72. 72.Farmers in Ashfield outline a rectangular sheep pen that is 20 feet long and 9 feet wide. What is the distance around the pen?

  73. 73.A right angle is split into two parts. One measures 58 degrees. What is the other angle?

  74. 74.A jar count in Peabody is recorded as 46 tens. What number is that?

  75. 75.A harbor count in Newburyport recorded 672 boats in the summer log and 419 boats in the fall log. How many entries are there in the two logs combined? Count a boat again if it appears in both logs.

  76. 76.The Blue Hills trail kiosk lists a 2,350-foot loop. A family has hiked 1,087 feet of it. How many feet are left?

  77. 77.Each row of lawn at the Hatch Shell holds 45 folding chairs, and ushers set up 8 rows. How many chairs is that?

  78. 78.A teacher in Andover has 132 stickers to give equally to 12 students. How many stickers does each student get?

  79. 79.A protractor shows two rays at 10 degrees and 135 degrees on the same scale. What is the angle between the rays?

  80. 80.A triangle has three unequal sides and one angle greater than 90 degrees. Which description fits?

  81. 81.The frame of a picture of Boston's Old State House is 16 inches long and 8 inches wide. What is its perimeter?

  82. 82.Which description defines perpendicular lines?

  83. 83.How many lines of symmetry does a square have?

  84. 84.A tag at a Marblehead boathouse shows 13,408. What is the value of the digit 3?

  85. 85.A cranberry truck leaves Carver with 3,264 pounds and picks up 1,578 pounds in Wareham. How many pounds are on the truck then?

  86. 86.A path counter at Castle Island showed 6,014 walkers on Saturday and 2,759 on Sunday. How many more walkers were counted on Saturday?

  87. 87.A classroom in Revere plants 16 seedlings in each of 14 window boxes. How many seedlings is that?

  88. 88.Volunteers in Greenfield pack 95 muffins into boxes that hold 5 muffins each. How many boxes do they fill?

  89. 89.A rectangle that is not a square is folded along a diagonal. Why do the two halves fail to match exactly?

  90. 90.A 2-kilometer trail is extended by 350 meters. What is the new length in meters?

  91. 91.Find the perimeter of a rectangular cold frame in Concord that is 11 feet long and 5 feet wide.

  92. 92.A jug contains 4 liters. A cook uses 750 milliliters. How many milliliters remain?

  93. 93.A seed packet from the town of Harvard says a count is 10 times 58. What is that count?

  94. 94.During Boston Marathon weekend, a water station in Natick handed out 2,915 cups on Saturday and 3,408 cups on Sunday. How many cups was that?

  95. 95.A school in Fitchburg ordered 4,500 notebooks and has given out 1,826. How many notebooks are left?

  96. 96.A choir in Worcester stands in 23 rows with 4 singers in each row. How many singers is that?

  97. 97.A grocer in Chelsea has 83 oranges to set in rows of 9. After making as many full rows as possible, how many oranges are left over?

  98. 98.A student needs equal rows of 36 tiles. Which row count uses all tiles without a remainder?

  99. 99.A number pattern starts at 5 and adds 4: 5, 9, 13, 17. Which statement will remain true?

  100. 100.One lap around a rectangular flower border in Edgartown is the distance around a 13-foot by 6-foot rectangle. How many feet is one lap?

  101. 101.A mileage card for a project about the Mohawk Trail uses 25,631. What is the value of the digit 5?

  102. 102.Road crews cleared 1,047 feet of sidewalk in Holyoke and 2,586 feet in Chicopee. How many feet did they clear in both cities?

  103. 103.A printer in Attleboro had 3,700 sheets of paper and used 1,458 sheets for town maps. How many sheets are left?

  104. 104.Each of 21 students on a Scituate field trip collects 8 postcards. How many postcards is that?

  105. 105.A club buys 7 packs of 18 pencils. It gives 49 pencils to younger students. How many pencils does it keep?

  106. 106.A census activity in Webster uses the number 6,048. Which expression is 6,048 in expanded form?

  107. 107.A historical society in Deerfield cataloged 934 letters and later added 287 more. How many letters are cataloged now?

  108. 108.A boathouse in Duxbury stored 2,040 life jackets and lent out 1,576. How many life jackets stayed in the boathouse?