Smart Stars Hawaiʻi Smarter Balanced Grade 4 Mathematics is a complete practice book built for Hawaiʻi's spring state math assessment. Every test in this book is modeled on the Hawaiʻi Smarter Balanced Assessment — the Math test administered to every Grade 4 student in Hawaiʻi public schools — with the exact item count, item types, calculator policy, and reference-sheet policy of the real test.
Hawaiʻi’s Grade 4 Math test is the same Smarter Balanced summative used by California, Connecticut, Delaware, and a dozen other states, delivered through the Cambium Test Delivery System and aligned to the Hawaiʻi Common Core Standards in Mathematics. Each year, the test combines a computer-adaptive section with a Performance Task that asks students to use math to solve a richer real-world problem.
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This book gives your fourth grader the length, item formats, and reasoning challenges they will face on test day — without a calculator, without a reference sheet (neither is permitted at Grade 4), and with the same Performance Task structure built into every test.
What’s inside
- 5 full-length practice tests — 36 items each, 180 items in all
- Every test has 31 computer-adaptive-style items plus a 5-item Performance Task
- 5 distinct Performance Task scenarios: beach cleanup day, hula festival, shave ice stand, school aquarium, and lei-making workshop
- Detailed, step-by-step answer explanations for every item — written in a teacher-explains-to-student voice, not just answer keys
- Strategy and Tip notes after every explanation, showing how to approach similar problems and how to avoid the most common errors
- Realistic test figures: number lines, fraction models, area and perimeter diagrams, angle diagrams, lines of symmetry, line plots in halves, fourths, and eighths, and composite shapes
- Quick Answer Key at the back for fast scoring across all five tests
- A Letter to Parents and Students plus Grade-4 test-taking tips
Topics covered
- Place value to the millions; reading, comparing, and rounding multi-digit numbers
- Multi-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping
- Multi-digit multiplication (up to four-digit by one-digit and two-digit by two-digit)
- Division with one-digit divisors, including interpreting remainders
- Factors, multiples, and prime vs. composite numbers
- Multiplicative comparison (“times as many”)
- Equivalent fractions and comparing fractions with unlike denominators
- Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators
- Multiplying a fraction by a whole number
- Decimal notation for tenths and hundredths, and comparing decimals
- Measurement conversion within a system (such as meters to centimeters)
- Area and perimeter of rectangles, including composite figures
- Angle measurement and the additivity of angles; angles as fractions of a circle
- Lines of symmetry and classifying two-dimensional figures
- Line plots in halves, fourths, and eighths of an inch
- Multi-step word problems involving the four operations
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Written by university-level educators and audited for math accuracy and grade-level fit
- Built to mirror the real Hawaiʻi Smarter Balanced test in format, length, and item types
- Every item is keyed to a specific Grade 4 mathematics standard
- Detailed multi-paragraph explanations build genuine understanding, not just answer-matching
- Trusted by parents and teachers across the Smarter Balanced consortium
