PSSA Grade 5 Number and Operations—Fractions. Practice it free.

Measures fraction operations, decimal equivalence, and the use of benchmark reasoning with fractions. This Grade 5 reporting domain maps to 1 practice skill and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 5M.5.31 mapped skills
What the test measures

Number and Operations—Fractions skills

  1. Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions

  2. Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions

  3. Interpret a fraction as division of the numerator by the denominator

  4. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators

  5. Multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction

  6. Interpret multiplication as scaling and comparing the size of a product to the size of one factor

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.

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Adding and subtracting fractions

Grade 5210 questions
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8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

What is 68−13\dfrac{6}{8} - \dfrac{1}{3}?

LCD is 24: 1824−824=512\dfrac{18}{24} - \dfrac{8}{24} = \dfrac{5}{12}.

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What is 26+16\dfrac{2}{6} + \dfrac{1}{6}?

26+16=12\dfrac{2}{6} + \dfrac{1}{6} = \dfrac{1}{2}.

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What is 67−27\dfrac{6}{7} - \dfrac{2}{7}?

Same denominator: 6−27\dfrac{6 - 2}{7}. Result: 47\dfrac{4}{7}.

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What is 68+48\dfrac{6}{8} + \dfrac{4}{8}?

68+48=54\dfrac{6}{8} + \dfrac{4}{8} = \dfrac{5}{4}.

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What is 58−38\dfrac{5}{8} - \dfrac{3}{8}?

Same denominator: 5−38\dfrac{5 - 3}{8}. Result: 14\dfrac{1}{4}.

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What is 36+23\dfrac{3}{6} + \dfrac{2}{3}?

LCD is 6: 36+46=76\dfrac{3}{6} + \dfrac{4}{6} = \dfrac{7}{6}.

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What is 12−15\dfrac{1}{2} - \dfrac{1}{5}?

LCD is 10: 510−210=310\dfrac{5}{10} - \dfrac{2}{10} = \dfrac{3}{10}.

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What is 12+34\dfrac{1}{2} + \dfrac{3}{4}?

LCD is 4: 24+34=54\dfrac{2}{4} + \dfrac{3}{4} = \dfrac{5}{4}.

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Related Common Core standards
5.NF.A.1
Number and Operations—Fractions in other PSSA grades
Grade 4
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