Smart Stars Hawai‘i Smarter Balanced Grade 4 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 4 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 4 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 fourth 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 4), 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: beach cleanup day, hula festival, shave ice stand, school aquarium, and lei-making workshop • 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: number lines, fraction models, area and perimeter diagrams, angle diagrams, lines of symmetry, line plots in halves, fourths, and eighths, and composite shapes • Quick Answer Key at the back for fast scoring across all five tests • A Letter to Parents and Students plus Grade-4 test-taking tips
Grade 4 math topics covered:
• Place value to the millions; reading, comparing, and rounding multi-digit numbers • Multi-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping • Multi-digit multiplication (up to four-digit by one-digit and two-digit by two-digit) • Division with one-digit divisors, including interpreting remainders • Factors, multiples, and prime vs. composite numbers • Multiplicative comparison (“times as many”) • Equivalent fractions and comparing fractions with unlike denominators • 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 conversion within a system (such as meters to centimeters) • Area and perimeter of rectangles, including composite figures • Angle measurement and the additivity of angles; angles as fractions of a circle • Lines of symmetry and classifying two-dimensional figures • Line plots in halves, fourths, and eighths of an inch • Multi-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 4 mathematics standard • Detailed multi-paragraph explanations build genuine understanding, not just answer-matching • Trusted by parents and teachers across the Smarter Balanced consortium