MCAP Grade 3 Number and Operations in Base Ten. Practice it free.

Measures place value understanding and multi-digit arithmetic with whole numbers. This Grade 3 reporting domain maps to 3 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 3Content Subclaim3 mapped skills
What the test measures

Number and Operations in Base Ten skills

  1. 3.NBT.A Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

Standards basis

Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics (MCCRSM) — Maryland

How the MCAP reports it

MCAP is Maryland's statewide successor to PARCC, built on the Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics (which mirror CCSS-M) — it is not a Smarter Balanced administration despite the claims-style family resemblance. Each grade/course High Level Blueprint (September 2022) organizes the assessment into three subclaims: Content (23-24 one-point machine-scored items, listed per domain/conceptual category as MCCRSM cluster headings), Reasoning (6 items), and Modeling (6 items), the latter two defined by per-grade evidence statements and including constructed-response items. Cluster headings are transcribed verbatim from the blueprints, including their minor typographical deviations from the parallel CCSS-M headings; two evident misprints are normalized (a duplicated sentence fragment on 4.OA.C, and the domain codes printed as G.P.E / T.TF for G.GPE / F.TF). Since March 2025, grade 6-7 students enrolled in a high-school mathematics course may take the corresponding MCAP course assessment instead of the grade-level test.

Blueprint & weighting

Each High Level Blueprint (September 2022) publishes per-domain operational item counts. Content Subclaim (1-point machine-scored items): Grade 3 — OA 7, NBT 2, NF 7, Measurement 5, Geometry 2 (23 items); Grade 4 — OA 4, NBT 5, NF 10, Measurement 3, Geometry 1 (23); Grade 5 — OA 2, NBT 6, NF 9, Measurement 4, Geometry 2 (23); Grade 6 — RP 3, NS 8, EE 8, Geometry 2, SP 2 (23); Grade 7 — RP 8, NS 4, EE 5, Geometry 3, SP 3 (23); Grade 8 — NS 2, EE 10, Functions 5, Geometry 4, SP 2 (23); Algebra I — Number and Quantity 1, Algebra 12, Functions 9, Statistics 2 (24); Geometry — G.CO 7, G.SRT 8, G.C 3, G.GPE 3, G.GMD 1, G.MG 1 (23); Algebra II — Number and Quantity 3, Algebra 8, Functions 11, Statistics 1 (23). Every assessment adds 6 Reasoning Subclaim and 6 Modeling Subclaim operational items — four 1-point machine-scored each, plus two constructed-response items (two 3-point in grades 3-4; one 3-point and one 4-point in grades 5-8; two 4-point in Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II) — so a form carries 35 operational items (36 for Algebra I).

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8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

What is 17+4417 + 44?

17+44=6117 + 44 = 61.

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What is 706770 - 67?

7067=370 - 67 = 3.

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Round 984984 to the nearest ten.

The digit one place to the right is 44, so round down: 984980984 \to 980.

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What is 69+4069 + 40?

69+40=10969 + 40 = 109.

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What is 211821 - 18?

2118=321 - 18 = 3.

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Round 862862 to the nearest hundred.

The digit one place to the right is 66, so round up: 862900862 \to 900.

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What is 54+8454 + 84?

54+84=13854 + 84 = 138.

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What is 928992 - 89?

9289=392 - 89 = 3.

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