Smart Stars Hawai‘i Smarter Balanced Grade 3 Mathematics is a complete practice book built for Hawai‘i’s spring state math assessment. Every test in this book is modeled on the Hawai‘i Smarter Balanced Assessment (the Math test administered to every Grade 3 student in Hawai‘i public schools) with the exact item count, item types, calculator policy, and reference-sheet policy of the real test.
Hawai‘i’s Grade 3 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 Hawai‘i 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.
This book gives your third 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 3), 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: school garden harvest, spring bake sale, library reading challenge, walk-a-thon, and field-day carnival ★ 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: analog clocks, number lines, fraction models, scaled bar graphs, picture graphs, line plots in halves and quarters, area grids, and composite shapes ★ Quick Answer Key at the back for fast scoring across all five tests ★ A Letter to Parents and Students plus 10 Grade-3 test-taking tips
Grade 3 math topics covered:
★ Place value within 1,000 and rounding to the nearest ten or hundred ★ Adding and subtracting within 1,000 with regrouping ★ Single-digit multiplication and division within 100 (fluency from memory) ★ One-digit times a multiple of 10 (for example, 7 × 40) ★ Fractions as numbers, on a number line, and as parts of a partitioned shape ★ Equivalent fractions and comparison (denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, 8) ★ Whole numbers as fractions (such as 12 / 3 = 4) ★ Telling time to the nearest minute and elapsed time within and across the hour ★ Mass and liquid volume word problems (grams, kilograms, liters) ★ Area of rectangles as length × width; composite area by addition and by subtraction ★ Perimeter of rectangles and L-shapes, including finding a missing side from the perimeter ★ Picture graphs, scaled bar graphs, and line plots in halves and quarters of an inch ★ Quadrilateral classification (rhombus, rectangle, square, trapezoid) ★ Two-step word problems involving the four operations
Why Smart Stars:
★ Written by university-level educators and audited for math accuracy and grade-level fit ★ Built to mirror the real Hawai‘i Smarter Balanced test in format, length, and item types ★ Every item is keyed to a specific Grade 3 mathematics standard ★ Detailed multi-paragraph explanations build genuine understanding, not just answer-matching ★ Trusted by parents and teachers across the Smarter Balanced consortium