STAAR Math Practice Test in Four Categories

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What's inside this resource

A thirty-four-question STAAR-style practice test covers Grade 5 Texas math TEKS across four reporting categories: numerical representations, computations and algebra, geometry and measurement, and data analysis with personal financial literacy. Twenty-six items are one-point multiple choice and eight are two-point constructed-response problems that require students to show their work, covering skills such as fraction operations, rectangular-prism volume, coordinate-plane distance, and simple interest. A companion answer key lists the correct answer, TEKS code, and Readiness/Supporting designation for every question, plus scoring rubrics for each two-point item. A teacher's guide rounds out the set with a TEKS alignment table, administration guidelines, a blank class tracking sheet, and differentiation suggestions for struggling and advanced students.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will solve place-value, decimal, and rounding problems aligned to TEKS 5.2A-C.
Students will add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and decimals, including real-world word problems (TEKS 5.3-5.4).
Students will compute the volume of rectangular prisms and plot or measure distances on a coordinate grid (TEKS 5.5, 5.8).
Students will interpret data (mean, median, mode) and solve personal-financial-literacy problems such as simple interest and net income (TEKS 5.9-5.10).

Teaching tips

Use the Teacher's Guide's TEKS alignment table to identify which reporting category needs the most review before assigning the full test.
Score two-point constructed-response items with the included rubric, awarding partial credit for correct method with an arithmetic error.
Use the Class Tracking Sheet to record each student's score by reporting category and target reteaching.
For struggling students, focus first on Readiness Standards, which the guide notes make up 55-70% of test points.

Skills covered

Decimal place value and rounding — students identify digit values and round decimals to the nearest hundredth (TEKS 5.2A-C).
Fraction operations — students add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers in word-problem contexts (TEKS 5.3E-L).
Volume and coordinate geometry — students calculate rectangular-prism volume and find distances between plotted points (TEKS 5.5A, 5.8B).
Data analysis and financial literacy — students compute mean, median, and mode and solve simple-interest and net-income problems (TEKS 5.9-5.10).

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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.MD.C.5 — Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume. a. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths by packing it with unit cubes, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths, equivalently by multiplying the height by the area of the base. Represent threefold wholenumber products as volumes, e.g., to represent the associative property of multiplication. b. Apply the formulas V = l × w × h and V = b × h for rectangular prisms to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with whole-number edge lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems. c. Recognize volume as additive. Find volumes of solid figures composed of two non-overlapping right rectangular prisms by adding the volumes of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems
5.NBT.A.4 — Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place.
5.G.A.2 — Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.