Grade 6Practice Assessment Items – Paper/Pencil Version

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

Deidre folds about 78 shirts in 1 hour at work. She works 19 hours each week. Which is closest to the number of shirts Deidre folds per week?

A. 100

B. 560

C. 1,600

D. 11,200

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)Use the table to answer the question.

The amount of time Samantha practiced piano each day is shown above. What is the best estimate for the amount of time she spent practicing piano this week?

A. 3 hours

B. 4 hours

C. 5 hours

D. 6 hours

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)Use the figure to answer the question.

Antoine bought a pennant shaped like a triangle. He plans to put ribbon along all 3 edges. What is the least amount of ribbon Antoine needs?

A. 34 inches

B. 42 inches

C. 60 inches

D. 104 inches

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

At the school field day, Charlie ran the 100-yard dash, the 50-yard dash, and the 200-yard hurdles. How many feet in all did he run in his events that day? (1 yard = 3 feet)

A. 350

B. 1,050

C. 3,500

D. 4,200

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figures to answer the question.

Kareem was cooking. He used ½ cup of milk and ¾ cup of water. How many cups of milk and water did Kareem use in all?

  1. 4/6
  2. 4/4
  3. 1¼
  4. 2
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to answer the question.

A newspaper charges the prices shown above for classified ads. Using the pattern shown, what is the price for 1 line?

A. $3.75

B. $7.50

C. $15.00

D. $30.00

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the pattern below to answer the question.

Which figure is next in the pattern?

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

A school bought 38 new computers. Each computer cost $749 including tax.

What is the total amount of money spent on the computers?

A. $711

B. $787

C. $8,239

D. $28,462

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

Breanna had a piece of yarn 19 inches long. She cut it into 4 pieces exactly the same size. What was the length of each piece of yarn?

A. 4 3/10inches

B. 4 ¾ inches

C. 15 inches

D. 23 inches

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the pattern below to answer the question.

1 24 711 16 ?

What is the next number in the sequence?

  1. 20
  2. 21
  3. 22
  4. 27
  5. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

John and his friends went to see a movie. The movie tickets cost $4.00 each. The total was $48.00 for the tickets. Which shows how many tickets, t, were bought?

A.$48.00 + $4.00 = t

B.$48.00 - $4.00 = t

C.$48.00 x $4.00 = t

D.$48.00 ÷ $4.00 = t

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

A coach paid a total of $175 for 14 baseball uniforms.

What was the price of each uniform?

A. $8.00

B. $12.50

C. $12.70

D. $189.00

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.) Use the table to answer the question.

What was the range of the swim times in seconds?

  1. 42
  2. 43
  3. 52
  4. 54

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to answer the question.

A weatherman recorded the amount of rain for the last 5 days in the table above. What is the mean (average) amount of rain for the 5 days?

A.0.3 in.

B.0.4 in.

C.0.5 in.

D.0.8 in.

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

Leo rides his bike 6 miles a week. Tony rides his bike 4 miles a week. Which expression could be used to calculate how many more miles Leo rides than Tony in 8 weeks?

  1. (6 + 4) x 8
  2. (6x8) + (4 x 8)
  3. (6x8) – (4 x 8)
  4. (6 x 4) x 8

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to answer the question.

During basketball practice, 4 players kept track of the free throws they made. Which graph correctly displays the information?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

The following data show the number of children in 9 families.

2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 1

What is the mode of the data?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 5

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

The table below shows 4 of Victor’s monthly bills. What fractional part of his paycheck does he spend on these 4 bills?Show your work.

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figure to answer the question.

Heidi wants to find the distance around her school. Which does Heidi need to measure?

A. Area

B. Capacity

C. Perimeter

D. Circumference

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figure to answer the question. Do not use a protractor or angle ruler.

Which is the best estimate of the measure of angle JKL?

A. 30°

B. 75°

C. 105°

D. 180°

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figure to answer the question.

What is the area of the shaded figure?

A. 4 square units

B. 8 square units

C. 16 square units

D. 24 square units

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to answer the question.

Alex chooses 1 ball at random. What is the probability that Alex will choose a yellow ball?

  1. 1/10
  2. 2/10
  3. 2/8
  4. 8/10
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Wally is putting a fence around his rose bushes. Which would be the best unit for measuring the perimeter around the rose bushes?

A. Square inches

B. Pounds

C. Feet

D. Cubic yards

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the diagram to answer the question.

Spencer drew the diagram above showing the location of his house, a school, and a park. What type of angle is created by the diagram?

A. Acute

B. Obtuse

C. Right

D. Straight

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to answer the question.

Ms. Nelson’s class is selling candy bars to raise money for a field trip. The sales of 4 students are listed in the table above. Which pictograph best represents this data?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Megan chose a game piece with 5 faces to use as her marker. Which piece below could she have chosen?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Brayden plants vegetables in his garden.

  • ¼ are carrot plants
  • ⅛ are pea plants
  • ⅜ are corn plants
  • ¼ are tomato plants

Which graph shows this data correctly?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Jake wrote the ages of his cousins.

3, 15, 7, 11, 13, 6, 11, 10, 5

What is the median age of Jake’s cousins?Show or explain all of your work.

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

What is the greatest common factor of 18 and 24?

  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 6
  4. 8
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to answer the question.

The Burger Hut receives regular deliveries of food. All the types of food listed in the table were delivered today. In how many days will the Burger Hut receive another delivery of all 3 items on the same day?

  1. 15
  2. 30
  3. 45
  4. 60
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Sam bought the following items.

  • 2 shirts for $9.99 each
  • 1 pair of pants for $12.99
  • 3 pairs of socks for $1.56 each

What is the total price for the items bought?

  1. $24.54
  2. $27.66
  3. $34.53
  4. $37.65

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figure to answer the question.

Sam’s tent is a triangular prism. How many edges does Sam’s tent have?

A. 3

B. 5

C.6

D. 9

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the information below to solve the problem.

10 17 12 8 9 7 15 14 6 12

Nicole did a survey on the weight of students’ backpacks at her middle school. The weights, in pounds, of 10 backpacks are listed above. What is the mean weight, in pounds, of the 10 backpacks.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table to find the answer.

The table shows the relay team’s practice times. What is the relay team’s median practice time?

  1. 0.75 minutes
  2. 3.39 minutes
  3. 3.43 minutes
  4. 3.89 minutes

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the bar graph below to answer the question.

The bar graph shows the favorite type of music for 30 students. A student is chosen at random. What is the probability the student’s favorite type of music is jazz?

  1. 1 out of 4
  2. 1 out of 5
  3. 2 out of 15
  4. 2 out of 30
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the table below to answer the question.

The table shows what type of weather occurred in Martha’s hometown for the last 20 years on Thanksgiving Day. According to this data, what is the probability it will snow in Martha’s hometown this Thanksgiving?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Adam has a bowl that contains gumdrops of all the same size. The bowl contains these gumdrops:

  • 10 green gumdrops
  • 10 red gumdrops
  • 10 yellow gumdrops
  • 5 purple gumdrops

Adam takes one gumdrop from the bowl at random. What is the probability that it will be purple?

  1. 1 out of 4
  2. 1 out of 5
  3. 1 out of 6
  4. 1 out of 7
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the net (flat pattern) to answer the question.

Which three-dimensional figure can be created from the net shown?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Which set of measurements could be the lengths of the sides of a triangle that is isosceles but not equilateral?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the protractor below to answer the question.

Which angle appears to measure 80º?

  1. angle SXT
  2. angle QXS
  3. angle RXS
  4. angle SXU

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Stephanie has 12 yards of string. What is the largest number of 1-foot pieces of string that Stephanie can cut from the string?

  1. 12
  2. 24
  3. 36
  4. 48
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the picture below to answer the question.

Rudy left his house at the time shown on the clock. He walked for ½ hour and stopped at the store for ¼ hour. It took him another ½ hour to return home. What time did Rudy arrive home?

  1. 1:30 p.m.
  2. 2:15 p.m.
  3. 2:30 p.m.
  4. 3:30 p.m.
  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

What is the prime factorization of 162?

  1. 2x3x3x3x3
  2. 2x4x4x4
  3. 2x9x9x9x9x9x9x9x9x9
  1. 2x9x9

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the pattern to answer the question.

Helen planted her rose garden in the pattern shown above. She plants two more rows. How many rose bushes are planted in row 6?

A. 12

B. 14

C. 16

D. 18

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figure below to answer the question.

Sara is creating a model from the figure shown above. What 3-dimensional shape is she creating?

A. Square pyramid

B. Rectangular prism

C. Triangular pyramid

D. Cone

  1. (Solve this problem without a calculator.)

Use the table below to answer the question.

Which rule could be used to find each output number when the input number is given?

A. Add 6 to the input number

B. Subtract 6 from the input number

C. Divide the input number by 3

D. Multiply the input number by 3

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Which angle is greater than a right angle?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the graph below to answer the question.

The graph shows the price of some erasers Leta wanted to buy. Following this pattern, how much will Leta pay for 9 erasers?

A. 5 cents

B. 40 cents

C. 45 cents

D. 50 cents

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Which figure is a pyramid?

  1. (Students MAY use a calculator to solve this problem.)

Use the figures below to answer the question.

Which of the figures above appears to include a right angle?

A. Figure H

B. Figure I

C. Figure J

D. Figure K

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from the Minnesota Item Sampler, Minnesota Department of Education