Give your third grader the confidence to succeed on the New York State Grade 3 Math test.
This Smart Stars practice book provides five full-length, standards-aligned practice tests that mirror the length, item mix, and question types of the real New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) spring assessment in Mathematics. Every question was written by experienced educators, reviewed for accuracy, and built around the New York State Next Generation Learning Standards for Mathematics at Grade 3 (New York’s own standards, not the Common Core) so the topics and emphasis match what New York students actually see.
The NYSTP (the New York State Testing Program) is given each spring by the New York State Education Department to every public-school student in Grades 3-8. Grade 3 has 38 questions in all: Session 1 is 25 multiple-choice questions; Session 2 has 5 more multiple-choice questions and 8 constructed-response questions: with a few embedded field-test questions mixed in invisibly. Each practice test here follows that exact shape (38 questions across two sessions) for 190 questions across the book, to build true test-day endurance.
What’s inside
- Five full-length practice tests, with detailed Answers and Explanations after every test
- Embedded field-test-style questions blended invisibly into each test, just like the real NYSTP, and fully answered here so nothing on test day feels unfamiliar
- 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 questions), so students learn the move, not just the answer
- A combined Quick Answer Key after each test for fast self-grading
Topics covered
- Place value and four-digit whole numbers: reading and writing numbers through the thousands place in standard and expanded form
- Rounding whole numbers to the nearest ten and hundred
- Adding and subtracting whole numbers within 1,000, with and without regrouping, including across zeros, and missing-number problems
- Understanding multiplication and division within 100 through arrays, equal groups, repeated addition, and number lines, and the way multiplication and division undo each other
- “Times as many” multiplicative comparison, and multiplying one-digit numbers by multiples of ten
- Properties of multiplication (commutative and distributive) and one- and two-step word problems
- Number and shape patterns, and describing the rule that generates them
- Fractions as numbers: unit fractions, fractions of a whole and of a shape, fractions on a number line, equivalent fractions, whole numbers written as fractions, and comparing and ordering fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator (halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths)
- Telling and writing time to the minute, and finding elapsed time, including across the hour
- Measuring and estimating mass and liquid volume, and one- and two-step measurement problems
- Area of a rectangle by tiling with unit squares and by multiplying side lengths, the area model of the distributive property, and the area of composite (L-shaped) figures
- Measuring length to the nearest half inch, quarter inch, and centimeter.
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 NYSTP shape, item mix, question formats, and no-calculator, no-reference-sheet policy, with field-test questions blended in invisibly just like the real test.
- 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.