Michigan Academic Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) aligned to Smarter Balanced mathematics claims and assessment targets — Michigan
M-STEP Grade 3 Concepts and Procedures. Practice it free.
Students can explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency. Content is drawn from the Grade 3 clusters listed as targets below, per Michigan's Grade 3 Mathematics Claims, Targets, and Standards crosswalk. This Grade 3 reporting domain maps to 9 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
What the test measuresStandards basis How the M-STEP reports it Blueprint & weighting Official sources
Concepts and Procedures skills
Target A: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
Target B: Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division
Target C: Multiply and divide within 100
Target D: Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic
Target E: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
Target F: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
Target G: Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects
Target H: Represent and interpret data
Target I: Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition
Target J: Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures
Target K: Reason with shapes and their attributes
M-STEP mathematics is built from the Smarter Balanced framework and draws its items from the Smarter Balanced item pool (Spring 2019 M-STEP Technical Report; federal assessment peer-review documentation). It uses the four Smarter Balanced claims, and Michigan publishes per-grade “Claims, Targets, and Standards” crosswalks in which the Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) assessment targets are the Smarter Balanced lettered targets — verbatim CCSS-M cluster headings with the standards in each cluster listed alongside. MDE’s published mathematics blueprint (all grades) notes that Claims 2 and 4 are reported together, matching Smarter Balanced score reporting. Since spring 2019, M-STEP mathematics is administered in grades 3-7 only: grade 8 mathematics moved to PSAT 8/9, and grade 11 mathematics is the SAT within the Michigan Merit Examination.
M-STEP Mathematics Blueprints, all grades (MDE “Mathematics 2024 Overview,” Michigan School Testing Conference, February 2024): Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) 19-21 items, Claim 2 (Problem Solving) 3-5 items, Claim 3 (Communicating Reasoning) 7-9 items, Claim 4 (Modeling and Data Analysis) 3-5 items; Claims 2 and 4 are reported together. At range midpoints (20 + 4 + 8 + 4 = 36 items) Claim 1 is ~56% of the test, Claim 3 ~22%, and Claims 2 and 4 ~11% each — mirroring the Smarter Balanced claim distribution.
Michigan Department of Education M-STEP Summative
MDE Math Crosswalks: Claims, Targets, and Standards (per-grade PDFs)
MDE Mathematics 2024 Overview — Michigan School Testing Conference, February 2024 (M-STEP math blueprints, claim item counts, grade 6 crosswalk sample)
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A square has sides of in. What is its area in in?
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Perimeter of a cm by cm rectangle?
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Which property says ?
shows the order of the addition does not change the answer, so the expressions are equal in value. This is the commutative property.
What is ?
, so .
What is ?
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A bar graph shows: Mon = 4, Tue = 8, Wed = 6. How many more Tue than Mon?
Subtract: .
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