Built to feel like test day: Written to teach the why behind every answer.
This book gives your third grader five full-length practice tests for the Nevada Smarter Balanced Grade 3 Mathematics assessment — about 120 questions in all, written and reviewed by educators and aligned to the Nevada Academic Content Standards for Mathematics.
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Every test mirrors what your child sees on test day: the two-part Smarter Balanced format — a computer-adaptive question section plus a real-world Performance Task — and the on-screen item types delivered through the DRC INSIGHT platform: multiple choice, multiple select (“choose all that apply”), type-in numeric answers, two-part questions, and “use words and numbers to explain” constructed response.
About the length — and why it matches the real test: Beginning in spring 2025, Nevada gives a shortened “adjusted form” of the Smarter Balanced math test. A Grade 3 student answers a computer-adaptive section plus one Performance Task — about 23 to 25 questions in all, two of them unscored field-test items the state is trying out (students never know which).
We built every practice test to that exact length — Tests 1 and 4 have 23 questions, Tests 2 and 5 have 24, and Test 3 has 25 — so your child practices at true test length and builds real test-day stamina.
What’s inside
- 5 full-length practice tests (about 120 questions), each a question section plus a Performance Task
- The exact 23–25-question Nevada test length on every test
- Unmarked field-test-style items, just like the real exam
- A bonus Grade 3 Math Study Reference Sheet — multiplication table, place value, fractions, shapes, perimeter and area, time, money, and measurement units (a study aid; not provided on the real test)
- Detailed answer explanations for every question — each with a worked solution, a Strategy, and a Tip, Check, or Estimate
- Constructed-response items that ask students to explain their reasoning, with sample answers
- A complete Quick Answer Key for all five tests
- Difficulty that steps up across the book, so each test feels fresh and more challenging
Topics covered
- Add and subtract within 1,000
- Multiplication and division facts within 100
- Multiply one-digit numbers by multiples of 10
- Round to the nearest ten and hundred
- Two-step word problems and number patterns
- Fractions on a number line, equivalence, and comparing
- Area, including composite (rectilinear) figures
- Perimeter, including finding an unknown side
- Telling time and finding elapsed time
- Mass and liquid volume
- Scaled bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots
- Two-dimensional shapes and their attributes
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Written and reviewed by experienced educators — not generic test-prep authors
- Every question mirrors what students actually see on the Smarter Balanced test — we study Nevada’s released items and scoring guides
- The deepest answer explanations in third-grade test prep — they teach reasoning, not just the letter
- Difficulty steps up across the tests, so every test feels fresh and progressively more demanding
- Field-test items built in (unmarked) for true test-day endurance from the first sitting
