PSSA Grade 4 Operations and Algebraic Thinking. Practice it free.

Measures multiplicative comparison, factor/multiple reasoning, and pattern recognition. This Grade 4 reporting domain maps to 3 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 4M.4.13 mapped skills

What the test measures

Operations and Algebraic Thinking skills

Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples
Generate and analyze patterns

Standards basis

Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Mathematics / Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content — Pennsylvania

How the PSSA reports it

PSSA is Pennsylvania’s own standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment. Its math reporting structure is built on the Pennsylvania Academic Standards/Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content rather than a separate multi-state framework, and it closely mirrors CCSS-style grade-level domains.

Blueprint & weighting

The official PSSA page lists the Mathematics Test Design and grade-level item/scoring samplers, but the accessible source excerpt did not expose a usable per-domain percentage blueprint; no reliable item-weight table was recoverable from the available primary page text.

Official sources

Pennsylvania Department of Education — Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA)
Pennsylvania Department of Education — View Standards

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Divisibility rules

Grade 425 questions

Factors and multiples

Grade 433 questions

Prime number recognition

Grade 433 questions

Try it now

8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

What is the sum of its digits?
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Add the digits: $9 + 9 = 18\textsf{.}$

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What is the $3$ rd multiple of $6$ ?

Three $6\text{s}$ make $18$ : $6\textsf{,}$ $12\textsf{,}$ $18\textsf{.}$

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What is the smallest prime number?

The smallest prime number is $2$ .

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Which number is $130$ divisible by?

The last digit of $130$ is $0\textsf{,}$ so $130$ is divisible by $10\textsf{.}$

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Which is a factor of $36$ ?

$36$ is a multiple of $9$ : $9\textsf{,}$ $18\textsf{,}$ $27\textsf{,}$ $36\textsf{,}$ $\ldots$

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What is the next prime after $19$ ?

$23$ .

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Is $84$ divisible by $2\textsf{?}$

The last digit of $84$ is $4\textsf{,}$ which is even, so $84$ is divisible by $2\textsf{.}$

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What is the $4$ th multiple of $8$ ?

Four $8\text{s}$ make $32$ : $8\textsf{,}$ $16\textsf{,}$ $24\textsf{,}$ $32\textsf{.}$

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Related Common Core standards

Operations and Algebraic Thinking in other PSSA grades

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Source and test overview

All PSSA prep Official test source

Reporting categories

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