3rd Grade Math STAAR Review

Shapes

100

What quadrilateral has exactly one pair of parallel sides?

Trapezoid

200

How many faces does a cube have?

6 faces

300

Ms. Cottle's backyard is a rectangle and measure's 20 feet by 60 feet. What is the perimeter of Ms. Cottle's backyard?

160 feet

400

Diego made Mrs. Santillan a square shaped card for Mother's Day. One side of the card measured 7 inches. What is the area of the Mother's Day Card in square inches?

49 square inches

500

Ms. Ely's cats ran around her rectangular living room. One side of her living room measures 12 feet. The other side is 8 feet. What are the perimeter and area of the living room?

Perimeter: 40 feet Area: 96 square feet

Fractions

100

Ms. Ely ate 1/4 of a pizza, and Ms. Cruz ate 1/4 of the same pizza. Draw a model of the amount of pizza the teachers ate.

See student drawings.

200

Mr. Hernandez wrote the following expression: 1/5 + 1/5 + 1/5 Draw a model to represent the fraction.

See student drawings.

300

Mrs. Hinton drove 2/4 of a mile, and Mr. Marquez drove 2/8 of a mile. Who drove further? Draw the butterfly method to show your answer.

Mrs. Hinton See student drawings.

400

Lawrence ate 3/4 of a pound of crawfish and Edwin ate 4/8 of a pound of crawfish. Write the comparison of these two fractions by drawing the butterfly method.

3/4 > 4/8

500

Jay ate 3/5 of his candy bar. Sarah ate 2/8 of her candy bar. Who ate more of their candy bar, Jay or Sarah?

Jay 3/5 > Sarah 2/8

Place Value

100

When Carolina graduated from college, she got a job where she earned $36,504 per year. Write that amount in expanded notation.

(3x10,000) + (6x1,000) + (5x100) + (4x1)

200

Diego is thinking of a five digit number. It has a 4 in the hundreds place, a 5 in the thousands place, a 7 in the ten-thousands place, a 2 in the tens place, and an 8 in the ones place. What is Diego's number?

75,428

300

Ms. Cottle has twenty-nine thousand, eighty-seven pairs of shoes. Write this number in standard form.

29,087

400

Mrs. Santillan listed the dollar amounts we raised from different carnivals on a piece of paper: $10,843 $10,682 $9,999 $10,289 Write these amounts in order from greatest to least.

$10,843 $10,682 $10,289 $9,999

500

Ms. Thomason will write the smallest number possible using these digits: 5 4 1 3 8 What number will she write?

13,458

Measurement

100

Mikey and Andres want to find out how much water a bathtub can hold. Which measurement tool should they use? a. a scale that measures objects in pounds b. a ruler that measures objects in inches c. a container that measures liquid in gallons

c. a container that measures liquid in gallons

200

Lawrence stood on a scale in the bathroom. The scale said 67. The number 67 most likely represents: a. 67 feet b. 67 pounds c. 67 milliliters

b. 67 pounds

300

Macy had a square blanket that was 6 ft long. What is the area of her blanket? (Hint: Row x Column or Length x Width)

36 ft

400

Olivia wants to measure how long her bed is. Which unit of measurement would help her to find the length of her bed? a. inches or feet b. miles or kilometers c. quarts or gallons

a. inches or feet

500

Mark wants to measure the weight of the class pet mouse. The weight of the mouse could be best measured in: a. tons b. pounds c. ounces

c. ounces

Problem Solving

100

Aaliyah bought 5 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. There were 12 cookies in each pack. She gave 17 cookies to Melanie. How many cookies did she have left?

43 cookies

200

Victoria is going on a 5 day vacation to Disney. She will take $36 of her own money, and her mom will give her $19. She will spend the same amount of money each day of her trip. How much will Victoria spend each day?

$11

300

Tracy and Ed played Connect 4 against Cody. Tracy won 8 games. Ed won half as many games as Tracy. Cody won three times as many games as Ed. How many games did Cody win?

12 games

400

Edward has 3 bags of Takis. Each bag has 8 Takis in it. He will open all 3 bags, and then split them equally between himself and Mike. How many Takis will each boy get?

12 Takis

500

Isaiah has 25 pencils. Johannah has 7 pencils. Isaiah will split his pencils into 5 equal groups, and give one group to Johannah. How many pencils will Johannah have then?

12 pencils