Smart Stars Hawaiʻi Smarter Balanced Grade 3 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 3 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 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 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 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
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 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 3 mathematics standard
- Detailed multi-paragraph explanations build genuine understanding, not just answer-matching
- Trusted by parents and teachers across the Smarter Balanced consortium
