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) — national

How the SBAC reports it

Smarter Balanced math is organized into four claims with published assessment targets (Mathematics Content Specifications). Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) publishes per-grade assessment targets for grades 3-8 and high school, each a verbatim CCSS-M cluster heading (e.g. grade 3 Target A is cluster 3.OA.A); 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, 16-20 in grades 6-8, and 19-22 in grade 11; the Claim 2/4 and Claim 3 reporting categories are 8-10 items each, totaling 18-20 across the two.

Official sources

Smarter Balanced Mathematics Content Specifications (July 2015)
Smarter Balanced Mathematics Summative Assessment Blueprint (as of 2018-19)
Smarter Content Explorer (per-target pages, e.g. Grade 3 Claim 1 Target A)

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Practice playeasy

A rectangle is $3$ cm long and $2$ cm wide. What is its area in cm $^2$ ?

$3 \times 2 = 6$ .

Practice playeasy

A square has sides of $4$ cm. What is its perimeter?

$4 \times 4 = 16$ .

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Which property is $\color{red}{2\times}\color{blue}{(3+5)}\color{black}{\,=\,}\color{red}{2\times}\color{blue}{3+}\color{red}{2\times}\color{blue}{5}$ ?

$\color{red}{2\times}\color{blue}{(3+5)}\color{black}{\,=\,}\color{red}{2\times}\color{blue}{3+}\color{red}{2\times}\color{blue}{5}$ shows multiplying across a sum does not change the answer, so the expressions are equal in value. This is the distributive property.