Texas STAAR Math Practice Test with Teacher's Guide

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From the author

This fifteen-page math practice bundle contains a seven-page test with twenty-six multiple-choice questions and eight written-response questions, a three-page answer guide and a five-page teacher guide.

Topics include decimals, fractions, expressions, volume, coordinates, data and financial calculations. The teacher guide provides administration suggestions, differentiation ideas and a class tracker; the answer guide includes written-response rubrics.

Select items against the curriculum you have taught and apply the question-specific scoring clarifications. The bundle is independent practice material, and its performance bands should not be used as official STAAR score predictions.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Solve place-value, rounding, decimal and fraction calculations.
Use expressions and measurements in word problems.
Calculate rectangular-prism volume and work with coordinate locations.

Teaching tips

Review items against your taught curriculum before using them. The printed code table contains mismatches: 5.5A classifies two-dimensional figures, while 5.4H includes volume; 5.4F excludes exponents.
For question 7, both 7 0/5 and 7 equal the result. For question 9, both 1/2 and 6/12 are equivalent correct choices. Accept either or revise these questions before scoring.
The stated weights total 42 points. Use item-level results and the written-response rubrics; the guide’s approximate reporting-category totals and performance bands are not official STAAR score conversions.

Skills covered

Decimal place value, rounding and arithmetic
Fraction and mixed-number operations
Expressions, volume and coordinate calculations

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

How are the eight two-point constructed-response items scored differently from the twenty-six one-point items?

Two-point items use a rubric awarding 2 points for a fully correct response with work shown, 1 point for correct method or a correct answer without work, and 0 points for incorrect or blank; one-point items are simply scored correct or incorrect.

What differentiation supports does the teacher's guide suggest for advanced students versus struggling students?

For struggling students: focus on Readiness Standards first, use manipulatives before algorithms, and teach students to underline key numbers in word problems. For advanced students: extend to multi-step problems combining multiple TEKS and have them write original word problems to swap with a partner.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

5.NBT.B.7

Core concepts

TEKS
STAAR test prep
Fractions
Volume
Financial literacy

Topics

Texas STAAR Grade 5 math Practice test Test preparation

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