About this book
Give your fourth grader the confidence to succeed on the Kentucky Grade 4 Math state test.
This Smart Stars practice book provides five full-length, standards-aligned practice tests that mirror the format and item mix of the Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) Mathematics test. Every question was written by experienced educators, reviewed for accuracy, and built around the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Mathematics for Grade 4.
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The KSA is given each spring to Kentucky students in Grades 3-8, and again in high school, in reading, mathematics, and other subjects.
- Delivery: delivered online by Pearson and overseen by the Kentucky Department of Education, and it replaced the earlier K-PREP test.
- Format: the Grade 4 Math test is given in two parts.
- Length: 40 questions worth 56 points.
- Tools at Grade 4: Part A is a no-calculator section, and in Part B a simple four-function calculator is allowed; a protractor is needed for the angle questions.
- Field-test items: mixed in with the scored questions, the real test also tries out a small number of embedded field-test questions for future years, which look exactly like the scored ones but do not count.
- Each practice test here: 40 questions per test across two parts, Part A without a calculator and Part B with one — so your student practices the complete range of question types, math skills, and reporting domains they could meet on test day.
What’s inside
- Five full-length practice tests, with detailed Answers and Explanations after every test
- The real two-part KSA experience — 40 questions per test, with Part A no-calculator and Part B four-function-calculator, and embedded field-test-style questions blended in and not marked, just like the real exam
- Coverage of every Grade 4 math standard across the five reporting domains the KSA scores: Operations and Algebraic Thinking; Number and Operations in Base Ten; Number and Operations — Fractions; Measurement and Data; and Geometry
- Practice in every item format: multiple choice, multiple select, technology-enhanced tasks rendered for paper (plot a point, shade a figure, complete a table, complete a statement), short-answer “show your work” questions, open-response extended-response problems, number lines, area models, dot and line plots, angle and protractor figures, and figure-based questions
- Every explanation gives a full worked solution plus a labeled Strategy and a Tip, Check, or Estimate, so students learn the reasoning, not just the answer
- A graduated set of tests that step up in difficulty from Test 1 to Test 5, so students build steadily toward the hardest grade-level problems
- Real-world Kentucky contexts throughout — the Kentucky Derby and horse country, bluegrass music and the Ohio River, Mammoth Cave and Cumberland Falls, farms and Louisville Slugger baseball, cardinals and wildlife, and festivals and fairs
- A Grade 4 Math Study Reference Sheet to learn and review between tests (the state does not provide one on test day)
- A combined Quick Answer Key at the back of the book, with a worked answer for every one of the 40 questions on each test
- A family letter that explains the KSA performance levels and what each means, so you can turn a practice score into an estimated level (Novice, Apprentice, Proficient, or Distinguished)
- A test-taking tips section for students
Topics covered
- Place value to one million, and reading, writing, and comparing multi-digit whole numbers, including expanded form
- Rounding multi-digit whole numbers to any place
- Multi-digit addition and subtraction, including regrouping across zeros
- Multi-digit multiplication: up to four digits by one digit and two digits by two digits, using area models and partial products
- Division of up to four-digit numbers by one-digit numbers, with remainders interpreted in context
- Multiplicative comparison — “times as many” — and multi-step word problems that ask whether an answer is reasonable
- Factors and multiples, and prime and composite numbers
- Number and shape patterns and the rules behind them
- Equivalent fractions, and comparing and ordering fractions with unlike denominators
- Adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators, and multiplying a fraction by a whole number
- Decimal notation for tenths and hundredths, and comparing decimals to the hundredths place
- The place-value relationship in which each place is ten times the place to its right
- Converting measurements within a system, from a larger unit to a smaller one
- Area and perimeter of rectangles, including finding a missing side
- Reading and interpreting dot and line plots that use fractions of a unit
- Measuring and sketching angles, adding angle measures to find an unknown angle, and classifying angles as acute, right, obtuse, or straight
- Points, lines, rays, and parallel and perpendicular lines; classifying two-dimensional figures; and identifying lines of symmetry
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 KSA format, two-part structure, item mix, and calculator policy (Part A no calculator, Part B four-function calculator); a protractor is used for the angle questions, just as on the real test.
- Built for Kentucky: Aligned to the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics, and organized around the same five reporting domains the KSA scores.
- Explanations teach the why: Every Answers and Explanations entry gives a full worked solution, then a labeled Strategy and a Tip, Check, or Estimate, so students learn the move, not just the answer.
- Varied and graduated: Slot positions, contexts, names, and number choices rotate test-to-test, and the five tests step up in difficulty so no two feel like the same practice run.
