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Cumulative semester review

67 original questions with worked explanations, drawn from the frozen Chapters 1–7 instructional objectives.

Work on paper. This is an original, untimed, public practice resource. Do not use the results alone to make placement decisions. It covers Chapters 1–7 only; fractions, time, money, and measurement belong to later material.

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How to use this cumulative review

The review is organized by topic to make weak areas easier to revisit. Try one or two chapters at a time, then revisit the areas you miss using the corresponding lessons. Challenge and explanation tasks are intentional: show a model, equation, or reason where requested.

Content areaQuestionsPoints
Chapter 1: Numbers to 10,0001222
Chapter 2: Addition & Subtraction I1229
Chapter 3: Addition & Subtraction II926
Chapter 4: Multiplication & Division1025
Chapter 5: Multiplication925
Chapter 6: Division925
Chapter 7: Graphs & Tables613
CHAPTER 1

Numbers to 10,000

12 questions · 22 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0011 point

Write 6,407 in words.

3A-R-0022 points

In 8,353, what is the value of the second 3 (reading left to right)?

3A-R-0032 points

Write 5,090 as a sum of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones.

3A-R-0042 points

How many hundreds equal 3,200? Explain your grouping.

3A-R-0052 points

Order these from least to greatest: 7,205; 7,025; 7,250; 7,052.

3A-R-0062 points

On a number line marked 2,000, 2,200, 2,400, 2,600 at equal distances, what value lies halfway between 2,200 and 2,400?

3A-R-0072 points

Continue the pattern for two more terms: 5,875; 5,625; 5,375; __; __.

3A-R-0081 point

Round 6,521 to the nearest thousand.

3A-R-0091 point

Round 4,349 to the nearest hundred.

3A-R-0101 point

Round 8,765 to the nearest ten.

3A-R-0113 points

A student rounds 5,449 first to 5,400 (nearest hundred), then to 5,000 (nearest thousand). Is 5,000 also the correct result from rounding 5,449 directly to the nearest thousand? Explain.

3A-R-0123 points

Give a four-digit number that rounds to 3,500 to the nearest hundred and 4,000 to the nearest thousand; justify your example.

CHAPTER 2

Addition & Subtraction I

12 questions · 29 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0132 points

Find 438 + 250 by splitting 250 into hundreds and tens.

3A-R-0142 points

Compute 598 + 167 using compensation; show why the adjusted sum must be corrected.

3A-R-0152 points

Find 763 − 240 mentally; record useful jumps.

3A-R-0162 points

Use equal adjustment to calculate 803 − 298. Show both adjusted numbers.

3A-R-0172 points

What must be added to 674 to make 1,000?

3A-R-0182 points

Without using column addition, calculate 397 + 205.

3A-R-0194 points

Two teams together earned 94 points. One scored 18 more than the other. Find both scores and describe a bar model.

Smaller? Larger?18 Total = 94
Comparison model. Equal lengths represent equal unknown quantities.
3A-R-0202 points

A museum counted 1,248 visitors over the weekend. If 375 came on Saturday, how many visited on Sunday?

3A-R-0212 points

Maya has 235 beads. She has 47 fewer than Niko. How many beads does Niko have?

3A-R-0223 points

A library had 1,420 books. It received 235 more, then lent out 189. How many remain?

3A-R-0233 points

Two students calculate 702 − 299. One writes 703 − 300. The other writes 702 − 300 and adds 1. Are both valid? Find the answer.

3A-R-0243 points

Ava has 36 more stickers than Ben. Ava gives Ben 8. Who has more afterward, and by how many?

CHAPTER 3

Addition & Subtraction II

9 questions · 26 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0253 points

Calculate 2,768 + 1,457. Show at least one place-value exchange.

3A-R-0263 points

Calculate 4,503 − 1,278. Show why borrowing is required.

3A-R-0273 points

Solve 6,000 − 2,487 and explain how you regroup across zeros.

3A-R-0282 points

Estimate 3,462 + 2,153 by rounding each addend to the nearest hundred.

3A-R-0293 points

Estimate 6,187 − 2,741 by rounding to the nearest thousand, then calculate the exact difference.

3A-R-0303 points

A school collected 2,385 cans in September and 1,756 in October, then recycled 2,094. Estimate the number left by rounding each quantity to the nearest hundred, then calculate exactly.

3A-R-0313 points

A learner says 4,002 − 1,978 = 3,976 because they subtracted the smaller digit from the larger in each column. Explain the error and find the correct answer.

3A-R-0323 points

Which is more reasonable for 2,908 + 3,096: 5,000 or 6,000? Justify before finding the exact sum.

3A-R-0663 points

A class has 2,675 paper squares and another class brings 1,459. Estimate the total to the nearest hundred and then calculate it exactly.

CHAPTER 4

Multiplication & Division

10 questions · 25 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0332 points

Draw or describe an array showing 7 rows of 4 dots. How many dots are there?

3A-R-0342 points

Use the distributive property to find 9 × 7 by splitting 7 into 5 and 2.

3A-R-0352 points

Thirty-six pencils are shared equally among 6 boxes. How many pencils go in each box?

3A-R-0363 points

Explain why 0 ÷ 7 = 0 but 7 ÷ 0 is not defined.

3A-R-0372 points

Forty-seven counters are packed in bags of 6. How many full bags and how many counters left over?

3A-R-0383 points

Without adding individually, decide whether the sum of five odd whole numbers is odd or even. Explain.

3A-R-0392 points

There are 8 tables with 6 chairs at each. How many chairs are there?

3A-R-0403 points

Jules has four times as many marbles as Kai. Kai has 9. Describe the equal-unit bar model and find Jules’s number.

3A-R-0413 points

A baker makes 9 trays with 8 rolls each. She packs the rolls into bags of 5. How many full bags and loose rolls?

3A-R-0423 points

Thirty-eight children need seats in vans that each hold 8. How many vans are needed? Explain why the remainder matters.

CHAPTER 5

Multiplication

9 questions · 25 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0432 points

Find 7 × 300 using hundreds, not repeated counting.

3A-R-0442 points

Calculate 23 × 3 using (20 + 3) × 3.

3A-R-0453 points

Calculate 42 × 6; show what happens when 4 tens × 6 = 24 tens.

3A-R-0463 points

Calculate 58 × 4 with place-value exchanges.

3A-R-0473 points

Calculate 67 × 8 and identify both exchanges.

3A-R-0483 points

A factory packs 4 boxes with 213 buttons each. How many buttons altogether?

3A-R-0493 points

Calculate 376 × 5; estimate first to check whether the result is reasonable.

3A-R-0503 points

A theater has 6 sections, each with 128 seats. If 49 seats are empty, how many people are seated?

3A-R-0513 points

Someone claims 46 × 7 = 282 by writing 6 × 7 = 42 as just 2 ones, then doing 4 × 7 = 28 tens. What exchange was omitted? Find the correct product.

CHAPTER 6

Division

9 questions · 25 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0522 points

Calculate 840 ÷ 4 by interpreting the hundreds and tens.

3A-R-0532 points

Calculate 64 ÷ 2 using equal tens and ones.

3A-R-0543 points

Calculate 74 ÷ 2. Explain how regrouping a leftover ten works.

3A-R-0552 points

Divide 96 apples equally into 4 crates. How many apples per crate?

3A-R-0563 points

Calculate 438 ÷ 2. Explain how many hundreds each group receives.

3A-R-0573 points

Calculate 684 ÷ 4, showing the place values of each quotient digit.

3A-R-0583 points

Calculate 336 ÷ 4. Why does the quotient have two digits rather than three?

3A-R-0593 points

A school has 285 pencils. It places 5 pencils in each packet. How many packets can be made?

3A-R-0674 points

Five packages each contain 124 cards. The cards are then shared equally among four classes. How many does each class get?

CHAPTER 7

Graphs & Tables

6 questions · 13 points · attempt before revealing explanations.

3A-R-0602 points

The bar graph shows books borrowed by four classes. Which class borrowed the most?

Books borrowed by class · each grid step = 2 books
02468101214161820OakPineCedarMaple
Accessible data equivalent to bar graph
Oak10
Pine14
Cedar18
Maple12
3A-R-0612 points

Using the same graph, how many more books did Cedar borrow than Oak?

Books borrowed by class · each grid step = 2 books
02468101214161820OakPineCedarMaple
Accessible data equivalent to bar graph
Oak10
Pine14
Cedar18
Maple12
3A-R-0622 points

The table shows recycled cans by day. How many were recycled Monday through Wednesday altogether?

Recycled cans by day
CategoryCans
Monday18
Tuesday24
Wednesday15
Thursday21
3A-R-0632 points

From the same table, which day was exactly 6 cans higher than Wednesday?

Recycled cans by day
CategoryCans
Monday18
Tuesday24
Wednesday15
Thursday21
3A-R-0642 points

A picture graph uses one star to represent 5 votes. One team has 4 stars. How many votes did it earn?

3A-R-0653 points

Two bar graphs display the same survey data. One vertical axis begins at 0; the other begins at 10. Could the pictures make the same difference look different? Explain.

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