M-STEP Grade 4 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 4 clusters listed as targets below, per Michigan's Grade 4 Mathematics Claims, Targets, and Standards crosswalk. This Grade 4 reporting domain maps to 9 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 4Claim 19 mapped skills
What the test measures

Concepts and Procedures skills

  1. Target A: Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems

  2. Target B: Gain familiarity with factors and multiples

  3. Target C: Generate and analyze patterns

  4. Target D: Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers

  5. Target E: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic

  6. Target F: Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering

  7. Target G: Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers

  8. Target H: Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions

  9. Target I: Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit

  10. Target J: Represent and interpret data

  11. Target K: Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles

  12. Target L: Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles

Standards basis

Michigan Academic Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) aligned to Smarter Balanced mathematics claims and assessment targets — Michigan

How the M-STEP reports it

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.

Blueprint & weighting

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.

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Angle measurement basics

Grade 444 questions

Fraction equivalence and simplification

Grade 4217 questions

Line plots

Grade 415 questions

Divisibility rules

Grade 425 questions

Factors and multiples

Grade 433 questions

Measurement conversions

Grade 435 questions

Missing side from area or perimeter (SAT/PSAT 8/9/10)

Grade 418 questions

Prime number recognition

Grade 433 questions

Time and measurement conversions

Grade 430 questions
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Practice playeasy

How many degrees is a half turn?

The answer is 180180 degrees.

Practice playeasy

Fill in: 24=□8\dfrac{2}{4} = \dfrac{\square}{8}.

Multiply numerator and denominator by 2: 2×24×2=48\dfrac{2 \times 2}{4 \times 2} = \dfrac{4}{8}.

Practice playeasy

A line plot shows value 1: 2 X's, value 2: 4 X's, value 3: 1 X's. Which value occurs most often?

The value with the most X's is 22 (it has 44).

Practice playeasy

What is the sum of its digits?
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Add the digits: 1+1+1=3.1 + 1 + 1 = 3\textsf{.}

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What is the 44th multiple of 88?

Four 8s8\text{s} make 3232: 8,8\textsf{,} 16,16\textsf{,} 24,24\textsf{,} 32.32\textsf{.}

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11 kilometer equals how many meters?

The answer is 10001000.

Practice playeasy

A rectangle has length 1010 m and perimeter 5050 m. What is its width in meters?

Perimeter P=2ℓ+2wP = 2\ell + 2w, so 50=2(10)+2w50 = 2(10) + 2w. Then 50=20+2w50 = 20 + 2w, so 2w=302w = 30 and w=15 m.w = 15\text{ m}\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

What is the next prime number after 22?

The next prime after 22 is 33.

Keep practicing

Turn concepts and procedures into game time.

The M-STEP placement starts with this test's real coverage map and finds the right difficulty.

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Related Common Core standards
4.MD.C.54.NF.A.14.MD.B.44.OA.B.44.MD.A.14.MD.A.3
Concepts and Procedures in other M-STEP grades
Grade 3Grade 5Grade 6Grade 7
The same skills on other tests
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Source and test overview
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