Name: ______

Date ______

1.Eliza gave one fourth of her M&M candies to her brother. What fraction of her M&M candies did she have left?

Answer: ______

2.Eliza’s dad needs to double the pancake recipe for their big Sunday breakfast. Complete the chart below to help him.

8 pancakes / 16 pancakes
Eggs / 1
Water / 1 ½ cups
Flour / ¾ cup

3.Johnnie has 4 red marbles, 6 green ones, 5 blue and 5 yellow.

What fraction of his marbles are blue?

A. 1/20

B. 1/10

C. 1/4

D. 1/2

4. Circle the correct symbol to make this statement true.

> = <

5.Annie has 3 chocolate bars. She wants to give an equal amount to 5 of her friends. How much will each friend get?

A. 1/4

B. 1/3

C. 2/5

D. 3/5

6.The fraction 4/8 is equivalent to which of the following fractions?

Select the two correct answers.

A.3/6

B.3/12

C.5/10

D.4/16

E.4/24

7.In California there are 6-lane freeways. Today, two of the lanes are special HOV lanes. You can drive in those lanes only if you have more than two people in your car. What fraction of the lanes are not HOV lanes?

Answer ______

8.Judy’s grandmother is cutting ribbon to wrap gifts for her Womans’ Club holiday fund-raiser. If she needs 3/5 of a yard for each gift, how much ribbon will she need to wrap 15 gifts?

Select the three correct answers.

A. (3/5) x (15)

B. 45/5

C. 15 ÷ 3/5

D. 9 yards

E. 15 yards

9.There are 180 students in grades 3, 4 and 5 all together.If there is an equal number of students in each grade, how many students are in grade 5?

PART A

A. 30

B.45

C.60

D. 90

PART B

If 10 more students came into the fourth grade, how many students would now be in that grade?

Answer: ______

PART C

The Kindergarten, grade-1 and grade-2 elementary school is a smaller school. It has a total of 90 students. Each grade has two classes, and each class has the same number of students. How many students are in each class?

Answer: There are ______students in each class.

Explain or show how you know in the box below.

10.Place an x at the points 1/3 and 6/6 on the number line below.

11.What fractions does the ? represent?

Answer: ______

12.What fraction of the largeWhat fraction of this large

rectangle is shaded?rectangle is shaded?

Answer: ______is shaded.Answer: ______is shaded.

13.

PART A:

Each small square below representsShade in to show that 25%

one book. Shade in to show thatof the books are about

1/3 of the books are about animals.children, their friends and families.

PART B:

  • How many books are about animals?______
  • Gabriel said that there are more books about animals than there are books about children, their friends and families. Is he right?

____ yes ____ no

  • Explain or show how you know.

14.Put an x on one of the number lines below to show the solution

to 2 ¾ - 2 ½ = ?

15.Shade in the fraction answer in the appropriate circle below:

¼25%2/3

16.Check the three statements below that are true.

A.2/3 > 1/2

B.5/6 < 3/4

C.4/8 = 5/10

D.(2/3)(2/3) = 4/6

E.1/5 + 2/5 + 2/5 = 1 whole

Page 1 of 6 SAMPLE teacher-made PARCC-like Assessment FRACTIONS grades 3-5 JB 3/7/16