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.
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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.
- Length: 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: 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
- 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.
