Give your third grader the confidence to succeed on the Indiana ILEARN Grade 3 Math test.
This Smart Stars practice book provides five full-length, standards-aligned practice tests, each with 40 items that mirror the on-screen length and item mix of the real Indiana ILEARN assessment in Mathematics. Every question was written by experienced educators, reviewed for accuracy, and built around the 2023 Indiana Academic Standards for Mathematics at Grade 3.
The ILEARN Math test for Grade 3 is delivered online through Cambium Assessment as an untimed, computer-adaptive test that mixes multiple-choice, technology-enhanced, and open-ended items. In 2025-2026, Indiana also gives shorter ILEARN Checkpoints during the year, but the spring Summative is the test that produces a student’s official result. Each practice test here uses a 40-item structure: 35 scored items plus a few field-test-style items: to mirror the true on-screen length and build real test-day endurance.
What’s inside
- Five full-length practice tests of 40 items each, with detailed Answers and Explanations after every test
- Coverage of every Grade 3 math standard across the three ILEARN reporting categories: Number Sense; Computation and Algebraic Thinking; and Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis
- Practice in every ILEARN item format: multiple choice, multiple select, type-in answers, drag-and-drop, fraction models, graphs, and short written responses
- Every explanation includes a labeled Strategy and Tip so students learn the underlying reasoning, not just the answer
- A combined Quick Answer Key at the back of the book for fast self-grading
- A family letter and a test-taking tips section to help families prepare
- No-calculator, no-reference-sheet practice throughout, matching the official ILEARN Grade 3 policy
Topics covered
- Place value, and reading and writing whole numbers to 10,000
- Rounding two- and three-digit numbers to the nearest ten and hundred
- Addition and subtraction of multi-digit numbers, including regrouping across zeros
- Multiplication and division within 100, fact families, and unknown factors
- Properties of multiplication (commutative, associative, and distributive)
- Multistep word problems using all four operations
- Number and arithmetic patterns, including two-step rules and number machines
- Fractions as numbers on a number line
- Equivalent fractions, and comparing and ordering fractions (denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8)
- Comparing fractions to benchmarks, and writing whole numbers as fractions
- Telling time and finding elapsed and end times, including multistep time problems
- Finding the value of collections of coins and bills
- Measuring and reasoning about mass and liquid volume (grams, kilograms, liters)
- Area of rectangles, including finding a missing side and comparing two areas
- Perimeter of rectangles and squares, including finding an unknown side length
- Classifying quadrilaterals; points, lines, and line segments; and partitioning shapes into equal parts
- Scaled picture graphs (pictographs) and bar graphs
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Educator-authored. Every question is written and reviewed by classroom-experienced educators.
- Mirrors test day. Each practice test matches the official ILEARN format, item mix, and policy (no calculator and no reference sheet at Grade 3).
- Explanations teach the why. Every Answers and Explanations entry walks through the reasoning step by step, then provides a labeled Strategy and Tip so students learn the move, not just the answer.
- Varied across five tests. Slot positions, contexts, names, and number choices rotate test-to-test, and the tests step up in difficulty so no two feel like the same practice run.
- Field-test items built in. Each practice test includes unscored items that mirror the real field-test load on the live ILEARN, building true test-day endurance.