Nevada SBAC Grade 3 Concepts and Procedures Practice

What the test measures

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

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) — Nevada

How the Nevada SBAC reports it

Nevada administers the consortium Smarter Balanced mathematics summative assessment in grades 3-8 (Nevada Department of Education, Office of Assessments); grade 11 students take the ACT as Nevada's college and career readiness assessment, so the state has no high-school Smarter Balanced administration. The test uses the consortium's shared structure: Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) publishes per-grade assessment targets that are verbatim CCSS-M cluster headings; Claims 2-4 are cross-cutting process claims whose targets are constant across grades and draw on the same grade-level content. On score reports, Claims 2 and 4 are combined into a single reporting category, so three claim scores accompany the overall math score.

Blueprint & weighting

Content Specifications (Reporting Categories section): the total mathematics score is a weighted composite of the four claims — Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) contributes roughly 50%, Claim 3 (Communicating Reasoning) roughly 25%, and combined Claims 2 and 4 (Problem Solving / Modeling and Data Analysis) about 25%. The summative blueprint (as of 2018-19) publishes item counts per test event rather than percentages: Claim 1 is 17-20 items in grades 3-5 and 16-20 in grades 6-8; the Claim 2/4 and Claim 3 reporting categories are 8-10 items each, totaling 18-20 across the two.

Official sources

Nevada Department of Education — Grades 3-8: Smarter Balanced Assessments
Nevada Department of Education — Office of Assessments (grade 11: ACT)
Smarter Balanced Mathematics Content Specifications (July 2015)

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Practice playeasy

A rectangle is $9$ ft by $2$ ft. Area in ft $^2$ ?

$9 \times 2 = 18$ .

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A square has sides of $2$ ft. What is its perimeter?

$4 \times 2 = 8$ .

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Which property is $\color{red}{4\times}\color{blue}{(3+2)}\color{black}{\,=\,}\color{red}{4\times}\color{blue}{3+}\color{red}{4\times}\color{blue}{2}$ ?

$\color{red}{4\times}\color{blue}{(3+2)}\color{black}{\,=\,}\color{red}{4\times}\color{blue}{3+}\color{red}{4\times}\color{blue}{2}$ shows multiplying across a sum does not change the answer, so the expressions are equal in value. This is the distributive property.