Give your fourth grader the confidence to succeed on the Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Grade 4 Math test.
This Smart Stars practice book provides five full-length, standards-aligned practice tests that mirror the length, session structure, and item mix of the real KAP summative assessment in Mathematics. Every question was written by experienced educators, reviewed for accuracy, and built around the Kansas Mathematics Standards at Grade 4.
KAP is given to Kansas public-school students each spring and is taken online through the Kite Student Portal. It is built for the Kansas State Department of Education by the Achievement & Assessment Institute at the University of Kansas. The Grade 4 math test is untimed and given in two sessions, mixes multiple-choice, multiple-select, technology-enhanced, and type-in items, and uses no calculator. A few unscored “field-test” questions are mixed invisibly into every real test, so each practice test here follows the same shape, about 60 questions across two sessions (around 55 scored plus a handful of field-test-style questions, over 300 items in all), to build true test-day endurance.
What’s inside
- Five full-length practice tests, each split into two sessions with a STOP page, and detailed Answers and Explanations after every test
- Coverage of every Grade 4 math standard across all five domains (Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Number and Operations: Fractions, Measurement and Data, and Geometry), weighted to match the KAP blueprint, where fractions carry the most questions
- The official KAP Grade 4 Resource Sheet (standard, metric, and time conversions plus the rectangle formulas) reproduced exactly, so students practice with the same on-screen reference they will have on test day
- Field-test-style questions blended into each test, just like the real KAP, and fully answered here so nothing on test day feels unfamiliar
- Practice in every KAP item format: multiple choice, multiple select (“select the two”), type-in answers, two-part questions, “use words and numbers to explain” written responses, number lines, line plots, area models, and figure-based geometry questions
- Every explanation walks through the reasoning step by step and ends with a labeled Tip, Check, or Estimate (with a Strategy on the multi-step items), so students learn the move, not just the answer
- A combined Quick Answer Key at the back of the book for fast self-grading
- A family letter, a test-taking tips section, and a Grade 4 reference page up front
- No-calculator practice throughout, matching the official KAP Grade 3-5 policy
Topics covered
- Place value through the hundred-thousands, and reading, writing, comparing, and rounding multi-digit whole numbers
- Multi-digit addition and subtraction, with regrouping and estimation
- Multiplication of up to four-digit by one-digit and two-digit by two-digit numbers, using area models and partial products
- Division with one-digit divisors, including interpreting remainders
- Multiplicative comparison (“times as many”), and writing equations to match a comparison
- Factors, multiples, and prime and composite numbers
- Number and shape patterns and the rules behind them
- Fraction equivalence and comparison; 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 and unit conversion, money, and multi-step word problems
- Area and perimeter, including composite (L-shaped) figures and finding a missing side
- Angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, lines of symmetry, and classifying two-dimensional shapes
- Line plots in fractional units, and reading data from tables and 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 KAP format, two-session structure, item mix, and policy, including the on-screen Grade 4 Resource Sheet and no calculator.
- Built for Kansas. Aligned to the Kansas Mathematics Standards and the KAP blueprint, with Kansas-flavored contexts: the Flint Hills, sunflowers and wheat, bison, monarch butterflies, and the Cosmosphere.
- Explanations teach the why. Every Answers and Explanations entry shows the full worked solution, then a labeled closing Tip, Check, or Estimate (and a Strategy on multi-step problems) so students learn the reasoning.
- 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.