Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress Mathematics Grade 4

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

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  1. 1.Dock workers in Detroit counted 748 crates already stacked and 356 crates still on the truck. What is the total number of crates?

  2. 2.Before sunrise, a Grand Rapids warehouse held 700 pallets. By noon, 268 of those pallets had gone out on trailers. How many pallets were still inside?

  3. 3.An Ann Arbor reading room rolls out 6 carts, and every cart carries 50 picture books. How many picture books are on the carts?

  4. 4.Lansing volunteers divide 56 canned goods evenly among 8 pantry shelves. How many cans belong on each shelf?

  5. 5.A baker in Flint cuts one pie into 5 equal pieces and leaves 2 of those pieces on the tray. Which fraction of the pie is still on the tray?

  6. 6.The Kalamazoo community garden marks a rectangle that is 9 meters long and 4 meters wide. What is the area of that rectangle in square meters?

  7. 7.A rectangular stage skirt in Traverse City is 7 feet long and 6 feet wide. How many feet of ribbon will go all the way around it?

  8. 8.The Mackinac ferry schedule shows a departure at 8:35 a.m. and an arrival at 9:20 a.m. How long is that crossing?

  9. 9.A trail counter in the Upper Peninsula recorded 4,628 hikers. What is that count rounded to the nearest thousand?

  10. 10.Ticket sellers in Marquette sold 3,746 seats for a harbor concert. What is 3,746 rounded to the nearest ten?

  11. 11.A Holland harbor log lists 8,251 buoys checked this season. Round 8,251 to the nearest hundred.

  12. 12.In the Muskegon shipping number 57,304, what is the value of the digit 7?

  13. 13.Saginaw clerks compared two inventories, 46,809 boxes and 46,890 boxes. Which inventory is larger?

  14. 14.Sleeping Bear rangers wrote 30,458 on a dune-grass survey. Which expression shows 30,458 in expanded form?

  15. 15.At Pictured Rocks, 24 kayaks are booked, and each kayak is packed with 16 pounds of gear. How many pounds of gear is that in all?

  16. 16.The museum at the Soo prints 347 visitor guides on each of 6 mornings. How many guides are printed on those mornings?

  17. 17.Belle Isle lifeguards have 137 vests to place into boats that hold 5 vests each. What is the greatest number of boats that can be filled, and how many vests are left over?

  18. 18.A Great Lakes science kit holds 864 sample cards that must be split into 4 equal packs. How many cards go in one pack?

  19. 19.Detroit park planners need the greatest whole number that divides both 24 and 36 with nothing left over. What is that number?

  20. 20.Grand Rapids musicians line up in groups of 7. Which of these counts is a multiple of 7?

  21. 21.Which of these Ann Arbor locker numbers is a prime number?

  22. 22.Mile markers along a Lansing path read 8, 15, 22, and 29. The same amount is added each time. What number comes next?

  23. 23.A sidewalk in Flint is 9 blocks long. The river path beside it is 4 times as long. How many blocks long is the river path?

  24. 24.Kalamazoo neighbors collected 1,250 cans on Saturday and 875 cans on Sunday, then delivered 960 cans to a pantry. How many cans were left?

  25. 25.A Traverse City recipe uses 3/4 cup of cherries. Which fraction names the same amount as 3/4?

  26. 26.Two Mackinac coolers are partly full. One holds 3/5 of a gallon and the other holds 3/8 of a gallon. Which amount is greater?

  27. 27.Hikers in the Upper Peninsula finished 2/8 of a trail before lunch and another 3/8 after lunch. What fraction of the trail did they finish?

  28. 28.A Marquette water tank was 7/10 full in the morning. Crews drained 4/10 of a full tank from it. What fraction of the tank was still full?

  29. 29.Holland decorators cut 1 3/4 yards from a ribbon that was 3 1/4 yards long. How much ribbon was left?

  30. 30.Muskegon servers fill 5 pitchers, and each pitcher contains 2/3 liter of juice. How many liters is that altogether?

  31. 31.A rain gauge in Saginaw shows 37 hundredths of an inch. Which decimal matches the fraction 37/100?

  32. 32.Sleeping Bear gauges read 0.6 inch on Monday and 0.58 inch on Tuesday. Which reading is greater?

  33. 33.A Pictured Rocks overlook walk is split into 2.45 miles of boardwalk and 1.3 miles of packed sand. How many miles long is the whole walk?

  34. 34.At the Soo, a visitor pays for a $1.64 postcard with a $5 bill. How much change is due?

  35. 35.Belle Isle shoppers buy 3 notebooks at $1.25 each and one pen for $0.80. What is the total cost?

  36. 36.A research buoy on the Great Lakes sits on a pole that is 4 meters tall. How many centimeters tall is that pole?

  37. 37.Detroit bike riders follow a marked loop that is 3 kilometers long. How many meters long is that loop?

  38. 38.A Grand Rapids workshop lasts 3 hours and 20 minutes. How many minutes long is the workshop?

  39. 39.An Ann Arbor market sells a wheel of cheese that has a mass of 2 kilograms. How many grams is that mass?

  40. 40.Lansing lab students pour 6 liters of water into a tank. How many milliliters did they pour?

  41. 41.A Flint poster covers 48 square inches and is 6 inches wide. What is its length?

  42. 42.Kalamazoo gardeners have 30 feet of edging for a rectangular bed that is 9 feet long. What width lets the edging go exactly once around the bed?

  43. 43.On a Traverse City street map, two borders meet and form a square corner that measures 90 degrees. What kind of angle is that corner?

  44. 44.A Mackinac bridge sketch shows a straight angle split into two parts. One part measures 65 degrees. What does the other part measure?

  45. 45.Which of these turn measures from a trail in the Upper Peninsula is an acute angle?

  46. 46.A square window in Marquette can be folded so that the two halves match. How many lines of symmetry does a square have?

  47. 47.A quadrilateral on a Holland canal map has exactly one pair of parallel sides. What is that quadrilateral called?

  48. 48.Muskegon surveyors mark a straight path that begins at one stake and ends at another stake. Which figure matches that path?

  49. 49.Two Saginaw railroad tracks run side by side, stay the same distance apart, and never meet. What is that pair of tracks an example of?

  50. 50.Planters at Sleeping Bear set out 1,208 seedlings in each of 3 plots. How many seedlings are set out?

  51. 51.Pictured Rocks volunteers pack 936 trail markers into 8 identical crates. How many markers go in each crate?

  52. 52.The civic hall at the Soo sets 15 rows with 12 chairs in every row, then removes 28 chairs to open an aisle. How many chairs stay?

  53. 53.Belle Isle distance signs show 5,042 meters, 5,420 meters, and 4,952 meters. Which list orders those distances from least to greatest?

  54. 54.A Great Lakes bird count of 64,381 is rounded to the nearest thousand for a summary card. What number should the card use?

  55. 55.In 3,600 the digit 3 means 3,000, and in 360 the digit 3 means 300. A Detroit teacher asks how many times as great 3,000 is as 300. What is the answer?

  56. 56.Grand Rapids bakers want a fraction equal to 1/2 that uses a denominator of 10. Which fraction should they write?

  57. 57.An Ann Arbor quilt uses 1/6 yard of blue cloth and 4/6 yard of green cloth. How many yards of those two colors are used together?

  58. 58.Lansing kayakers planned a paddle of 4 3/5 miles and have already covered 2 1/5 miles. How many miles are left?

  59. 59.One Flint paint jar is 2/3 full, and another paint jar is 3/4 full. Which jar is fuller?

  60. 60.Painters finished 5/8 of a Kalamazoo mural. They had already finished 2/8 of it yesterday. What fraction of the mural was finished today?

  61. 61.Each of 4 boats in Traverse City needs 3/4 gallon of varnish. How many gallons are needed for all 4 boats?

  62. 62.Harbor logs from Mackinac list rainfall of 0.4 inch, 0.39 inch, 0.41 inch, and 0.09 inch. Which amount is the greatest?

  63. 63.An Upper Peninsula train ticket costs $6.45 and is paid for with a $10 bill. How much money is returned?

  64. 64.A Marquette museum opens a special exhibit at 10:15 a.m. and closes it at 1:45 p.m. How long is the exhibit open?

  65. 65.Holland lays a square brick court, and each side is 8 meters long. What is the perimeter of the court?

  66. 66.A Muskegon ice rink is a square with sides of 11 meters. What is the area of the rink?

  67. 67.Saginaw prints 23 bundles, and each bundle holds 14 brochures. How many brochures are printed?

  68. 68.Sleeping Bear camp shares 250 lantern batteries equally among 6 cabins, giving each cabin as many as possible. What is 250 divided by 6 as a quotient and remainder?

  69. 69.Pictured Rocks has 48 canoes. Which of these numbers is not a factor of 48?

  70. 70.Boat counts at the Soo form the pattern 18, 24, 30, 36, and 6 is added each time. What is the next number?

  71. 71.Belle Isle has 72 benches, and that count is 8 times the number of benches at a nearby playground. How many benches are at the playground?

  72. 72.A Great Lakes club shares 96 stickers equally among 4 members. Each member then gives away 5 stickers. How many stickers does each member keep?

  73. 73.Detroit recorded 6,408 riders on Friday and 2,795 riders on Saturday. How many riders were recorded on the two days together?

  74. 74.Grand Rapids started a survey with 8,000 flags and used 2,546 of them. How many flags were not used?

  75. 75.Ann Arbor counted 2,950 books at a book fair and rounded that count to the nearest hundred. What is the rounded number?

  76. 76.A Lansing odometer shows 4,995 miles, and the driver rounds it to the nearest ten. What number does the driver record?

  77. 77.In the Flint figure 83,416, which digit is in the ten-thousands place?

  78. 78.A Kalamazoo library file is labeled forty-six thousand, five hundred seven. Which numeral matches that name?

  79. 79.Traverse City compares the depths 12,450 and 12,405. Which symbol makes 12,450 ___ 12,405 true?

  80. 80.Mackinac sets up 15 rows of folding chairs with 20 chairs in each row. How many chairs are set up?

  81. 81.Collectors in the Upper Peninsula split 735 pine cones into 7 equal bags. How many pine cones go in each bag?

  82. 82.Marquette coils 403 meters of rope into pieces that are 9 meters long. What quotient and remainder does 403 divided by 9 give?

  83. 83.A Holland dock is built from two rectangles that do not overlap. One is 8 feet by 5 feet, and the other is 4 feet by 3 feet. What is the total area?

  84. 84.Muskegon fences a square garden, and the fence measures 36 meters all the way around. What is the length of one side?

  85. 85.A right angle on a Saginaw floor plan is divided into a 35-degree angle and another angle. What does the other angle measure?

  86. 86.Bike-path turns at Sleeping Bear measure 89 degrees, 90 degrees, 132 degrees, and 180 degrees. Which measure is obtuse?

  87. 87.A triangle painted at Pictured Rocks has three sides of equal length. What kind of triangle is it?

  88. 88.Two streets at the Soo meet and form a 90-degree angle. What word describes lines that meet at a right angle?

  89. 89.Belle Isle chefs have a recipe that calls for 4/6 cup of stock. Which fraction is equivalent to 4/6?

  90. 90.Great Lakes bakers have 12 quarter-pies, written as the fraction 12/4. How many whole pies is that?

  91. 91.Detroit sail makers join 2 1/6 yards of canvas to 3 4/6 yards of canvas. How long are the two pieces together?

  92. 92.A full gallon jug in Grand Rapids has 3/8 gallon poured out. What fraction of a gallon remains?

  93. 93.A thermometer note in Ann Arbor records 7 tenths of a degree above freezing. Which decimal equals 7/10?

  94. 94.Lansing adds 0.46 inch of snow on Monday to 0.29 inch of snow on Tuesday. How many inches fell on the two days?

  95. 95.A Flint hiking plan covers 4.2 miles, and the group has walked 1.75 miles. How many miles are left?

  96. 96.A Kalamazoo timer is set for 4 minutes. How many seconds is that?

  97. 97.A Traverse City banner is 5 feet long. How many inches long is the banner?

  98. 98.Mackinac campers pack 3 pounds of rice. How many ounces of rice is that?

  99. 99.An Upper Peninsula cave tour begins at 2:40 p.m. and lasts 50 minutes. At what time does the tour end?

  100. 100.Marquette sells 4 lighthouse tickets at $6.50 each and then applies a $5 coupon. How much is paid after the coupon?

  101. 101.A line plot of shells found in Holland shows 2 shells at 1/4 inch, 5 shells at 1/2 inch, and 1 shell at 3/4 inch. How many shells are on the plot?

  102. 102.Muskegon anglers compare a fish of 7/8 pound with a fish of 2/8 pound. What is the difference in their weights?

  103. 103.A Saginaw club doubles its membership each month. The counts so far are 3, 6, 12, and 24. What number comes next?

  104. 104.Sleeping Bear builds a rectangular array of 54 stones. Which pair of factors multiplies to 54?

  105. 105.Pictured Rocks labels four cabins 15, 2, 11, and 19. Which cabin number is composite?

  106. 106.The Soo needs vans for 67 students, and each van seats 8 students. How many vans are needed so that every student has a seat?

  107. 107.A Belle Isle path is 56 meters long, and a footbridge on that path is 7 meters long. How many times as long as the footbridge is the path?

  108. 108.Great Lakes crews install 15 latches on each of 32 cabin doors. How many latches are installed?