2024 Math PSSA Practice

This assignment contains multiple-choice and open-ended questions similar to those found on the PSSA Grade 4 Mathematics assessment. Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. For open-ended questions, show your work and explain your reasoning. Calculators are permitted only where indicated.

Questions 1–15 are multiple-choice. Choose the best answer for each question.

Which fraction is equal to 0.53?

The depth of the deepest part of the ocean is 36,070 feet. What is the depth, in feet, of the deepest part of the ocean written in word form?

The areas, in acres, of Arches National Park and Great Basin National Park round to the same thousand and the same ten thousand. The area of Arches National Park is 76,519 acres. Which value could be the area, in acres, of Great Basin National Park?

A student correctly divides a four-digit number by 5. The quotient has a remainder of 2. Which number could be the digit in the ones place of the dividend?

An office building has 32 floors. There are 98 light bulbs on each floor. The price to replace each light bulb is $2. What is the total price to replace all the light bulbs in the office building?

Carrie and D'Marco are reading copies of the same book. Carrie has read 3/10 of the book. D'Marco has read 2/3 of the book. Which sentence about the fractions of the book they have each read is true?

Minh stretches for 1/12 hour. She runs for 6 times as long as she stretches. Then she walks for 2 times as long as she stretches. What fraction of an hour does Minh spend stretching, running, and walking?

One piece of meat has a mass of 1.06 kilograms, and another piece of meat has a mass of 1.5 kilograms. Which explanation correctly compares the masses, in kilograms, of the two pieces of meat and gives the correct reason for that comparison?

Sofi and Evan are collecting pennies for school. Sofi has collected 141 pennies. She has collected 3 times as many pennies as Evan has collected. How many pennies has Evan collected?

A number sentence is shown below, but a symbol is missing.

16 × 4 ÷ 2 □ 32

Which symbol should be placed into the □ to make the number sentence true?

Eric picked 36 apples at an orchard. He packed all the apples he picked by putting 9 apples into each of 4 bags. What is another way Eric could have packed all the apples he picked?

A number pattern starts with the number 7. The pattern follows the rule “add 10.” What digit is in the ones place of the twelfth number in the pattern?

A carpenter took some time to gather materials before building chairs. Each chair took the same amount of time to build. The table below shows more time to build the first chair because the time for gathering materials is included.

The pattern continues. How many chairs will the carpenter build in 10 hours since she began gathering materials?

Line segment B E will be added to the picture to create additional figures. Which statement about

figure B E H C and figure B F G C is true?

Which statement is true?

Describe the time shown on the clock as the amount of time before the hour.

The rectangular clock face is 6 inches wide. The area of the rectangular clock face is 12 square inches.

Question B. What is the height, in inches, of the rectangular clock face?

Ms. Lowry’s clock weighs 3 pounds, 4 ounces.

Question C. Show or explain how to find the weight, in ounces, of the clock.

Ms. Lowry wants to find the mass of her desk using the smallest whole number possible.

Question D. Explain whether it would be better for Ms. Lowry to use kilograms or grams to

describe the mass of her desk.