Michigan Academic Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) aligned to Smarter Balanced mathematics claims and assessment targets — Michigan
M-STEP Grade 5 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 5 clusters listed as targets below, per Michigan's Grade 5 Mathematics Claims, Targets, and Standards crosswalk. This Grade 5 reporting domain maps to 7 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
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Concepts and Procedures skills
Target A: Write and interpret numerical expressions
Target B: Analyze patterns and relationships
Target C: Understand the place value system
Target D: Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths
Target E: Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions
Target F: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions
Target G: Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system
Target H: Represent and interpret data
Target I: Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition
Target J: Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems
Target K: Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties
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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LCD is 10: .
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The -axis is the horizontal number line on the coordinate plane.
A line plot (in cups) shows 4 at , 2 at . What is the total amount of liquid?
Multiply each value by its count, then add: total .
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means followed by zeros, so .
A rectangular box is m long, m wide, and m tall. Find its volume.
Volume cubic m.
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LCD is 4: .
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