Forty math and thirty reading questions for Florida fifth graders, in the categories that FAST, the FSA's replacement, reports.
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The real tests: Florida FAST, grade 5
Subjects in grade 5
Mathematics and ELA reading, each given three times a year: at the start (PM1), the middle (PM2) and the end (PM3). Science and writing are separate tests.
Mathematics
35 to 40 items; in spring about 4 or 5 of them are field test items that are not scored. Up to 80 minutes for PM1 and PM2 and up to 100 minutes for PM3.
ELA reading
36 to 40 items, plus about 5 field test items on PM3. Up to 90 minutes for PM1 and PM2 and up to 120 minutes for PM3.
Calculator
None permitted in grades 3 to 5. Students get blank scratch paper, and a mathematics reference sheet is in the testing platform.
How it is given
On a computer, in a single session on a single day. The tests are computer-adaptive: the questions get harder or easier with the student's answers.
Scores
Five achievement levels. Level 3, On Grade Level, begins at 222 in mathematics (scale 158 to 285) and at 222 in ELA reading (scale 160 to 279).
A printer packs 9,048 flyers into boxes of 24. How many boxes does it fill?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.2.2
The digit 3 appears in 3.07 and in 0.307. How does its value in 0.307 compare with its value in 3.07?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.1
In 0.062 the digit 6 is worth 6 hundredths. In 0.62 the 6 has moved one place to the left. How has its value changed?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.1
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Number Sense and Operations with Whole Numbers, continued
What is 7.846 rounded to the nearest tenth?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.5
What is 347 × 26?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.2.1
What is 1,538 ÷ 12, with the remainder written as a fraction?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.2.2
Which is 5.306 in expanded form?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.2
Which is another way to make 4.06?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.3
Which list is in order from least to greatest?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.4
Which number is forty and nine thousandths in standard form?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.1.2
Number Sense and Operations with Fractions and Decimals 10
A ribbon is 6 yards long. It is cut into pieces that are each 1/4 yard long. How many pieces are there?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.1.3
A trail is 4 1/4 miles long. Jo has hiked 2 2/3 miles. How far does she still have to go?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.1.2
Notebooks cost $2.35 each. Ana buys 3 and pays with a $10 bill. How much change does she get?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.M.2.1
Three pizzas are shared equally among 8 friends. How much pizza does each friend get?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.FR.1.1
What is 2/3 + 3/4?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.FR.2.1
What is 3/4 × 2/5?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.FR.2.2
What is 7.3 ÷ 0.01?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.2.5
What is 12.6 − 4.875?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.2.3
What is 45.2 × 0.1?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.NSO.2.5
Without calculating, which statement about 48 × 5/6 is true?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.FR.2.3
Algebraic Reasoning 10
A pattern begins 7, 11, 15, 19. Which expression gives each term when x = 1, 2, 3, 4?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.3.1
A school is taking 130 students on a trip. Each van holds 8 students. What is the fewest vans the school needs?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.1.1
A table follows the rule output = 3 × x + 2. What is the output when the input x is 6?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.3.2
A teacher opens 6 boxes of 24 pencils and shares all the pencils equally among 9 tables. How many pencils does each table get?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.1.1
Mia read the same number of pages, p, on each of 5 school days and 14 pages on Saturday. She read 99 pages in all. Which equation matches?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.2.4
What is the value of (4.5 + 1.5) × 3 − 2?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.2.2
What is the value of 18 − 6 ÷ 3 + 2 × 4?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.2.2
Which equation is true?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.2.3
Which expression means "the sum of 8 and 4, multiplied by 3"?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.2.1
Which words match the expression 20 − (6 ÷ 2)?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.AR.2.1
Geometric Reasoning, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability 10
A box is packed with unit cubes and no gaps. Each layer has 3 rows of 4 cubes, and there are 2 layers. Find the volume of the box?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.3.1
A cooler holds 3 gallons of water. There are 4 quarts in a gallon, 2 pints in a quart and 2 cups in a pint. How many cups does the cooler hold?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.M.1.1
A fish tank shaped like a right rectangular prism holds 96 cubic inches. Its base is 4 inches by 6 inches. How tall is the tank?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.3.3
A graph shows weeks on the x-axis and dollars saved on the y-axis. Ravi plots the point (4, 12). What does the point mean?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.4.2
A rectangular rug is 3.5 meters long and 2.4 meters wide. What is its area?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.2.1
A right rectangular prism is 8 cm long, 5 cm wide and 6 cm tall. What is its volume?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.3.2
A three-dimensional figure has exactly one base, which is a circle, and a curved surface that meets at an apex. What is it?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.1.2
A triangle has sides of 5 cm, 5 cm and 8 cm. Which name fits it?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.GR.1.1
Five plants are 4, 7, 7, 9 and 13 inches tall. What is the mean height?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.DP.1.2
Six quiz scores are 12, 15, 9, 20, 15 and 13. What is the median?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, benchmark MA.5.DP.1.2
Read the passage. "'It's only a rusty bike,' said Dana's brother. Dana ran her hand over the dented frame. She saw a fresh coat of blue paint, a basket on the front, and Saturday mornings riding to the library." How does Dana's perspective differ from her brother's?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.3
Read the passage. "At first Lena hid her accent by staying silent in class. Then a new student arrived who spoke the same language at home, and Lena translated for her. By June, Lena was reading her own poems aloud in two languages." Which detail best shows the theme that a difference can become a strength?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.2
Read the passage. "Ben wanted the last spot on the relay team, and so did his best friend, Arlo. Coach said she would choose after Friday's race. All week the two boys ate lunch at separate tables." What conflict drives this plot?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.1
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Reading Prose and Poetry, continued
Read the passage. "Omar's tower of cards fell eleven times. Each time he studied where it had tipped and set the bottom row a little wider. On the twelfth try it stood as tall as the lamp." Which theme does the passage develop?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.2
Read the passage. "Rain again, thought Mateo, grinning. He pressed his nose to the window. The garden he had planted in May would finally get a real drink, and tomorrow there would be puddles deep enough to float his boats." How does the author develop Mateo's perspective on the rain?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.3
Read the passage. "The creek behind Tavia's house had always been ankle deep. After three days of rain it roared past the porch steps, and the footbridge to her grandmother's house was gone. Tavia pulled on her boots and went to find the long way around." How does the setting contribute to the plot?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.1
Read the passage. "When the class hamster escaped, most students shrieked and climbed on chairs. Priya knelt, set a trail of sunflower seeds toward the open cage, and waited without a sound. Ten minutes later the hamster was home." How does the way Priya is described affect what happens?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.1
Read these lines of a poem. "Slowly the snow slips / down the silent slope." The poet repeats the s sound at the start of words. What is this called, and what does it add to the poem?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.4; its table "Elementary Figurative Language"
Read these lines of a poem. "The wind is a restless painter, / brushing the wheat field gold, / then gray, then gold again." The first line says the wind is a painter, without using like or as. What kind of figurative language is this?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.1.4; its table "Elementary Figurative Language"
Reading Informational Text 9
A science book prints the word magma in bold type. At the back of the book, an alphabetized list gives the meaning of magma and other key terms. What is that list called?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.1; its table "Text Features"
An article's central idea is that the new crosswalk has made Oak Avenue safer. Which detail best supports that idea?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.2
Read the argument. "Our town needs a second bus route. Riders on Route 1 now wait up to forty minutes, according to the transit office's count. Shorter waits would lead more people to leave their cars at home." Which part is the evidence?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.4
Read the argument. "Schools should start later in the morning. A survey at our school found that most students feel most alert after nine o'clock. When students are alert, they take part more in class." Which sentence is the claim?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.4
Read the passage. "Every student at Lakeside should join the Saturday cleanup. It takes one hour, gloves are provided, and last year volunteers filled forty bags. Sign up at the front office today." What is the author's purpose?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.3
Read the passage. "The Maple Street Library is more than shelves of books. On Mondays, volunteers help with homework. On Wednesdays, a repair club fixes bicycles. On Saturdays, neighbors trade seeds for their gardens." What is the central idea?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.2
Read the passage. "The old gym is drafty, its floor creaks, and the scoreboard sticks at 88. Still, three generations of our town learned to play there, and no shiny new building can replace that." What is the author's perspective on the old gym?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.3
Read the passage. "The school garden had a problem: rabbits ate the lettuce every night. To solve it, the fifth graders built a low wire fence and planted marigolds along the edge." Which text structure does the author use?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.1; its table "Text Structures"
Read the passage. "Unlike a paperback, an audiobook is heard instead of read. Both tell the same story; however, a paperback needs light, while an audiobook needs a speaker or headphones." Which text structure does the author use?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.2.1; its table "Text Structures"
Reading Across Genres and Vocabulary 12
A class is studying a hurricane that struck a town in 1935. Which of these is a primary source?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.3.3; Library of Congress, "Getting Started with Primary Sources"
"After the race, my legs were noodles." What does the metaphor suggest about the speaker?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.3.1; its table "Elementary Figurative Language"
"Dad asked me to season the soup with a pinch of salt before serving it." What does season mean in this sentence?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.V.1.3; Wiktionary, "season"
"The desert was arid; in that dry land, months could pass without rain." What does arid mean?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.V.1.3; its table "Context Clues"; Wiktionary, "arid"
The Greek root geo means "earth," and logy means "study of." What does a geologist study?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.V.1.2; its list "Greek and Latin Roots, 3rd to 5th Grade Sample List"
The Greek root tele means "far off," and scope means "viewing instrument." What is a telescope used for?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.V.1.2; its list "Greek and Latin Roots, 3rd to 5th Grade Sample List"
"I've told you a million times to shut the gate," Gran said. What does the hyperbole show?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.3.1; its table "Elementary Figurative Language"
The Latin root port means "to carry." Which word means "able to be carried"?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.V.1.2; its list "Greek and Latin Roots, 3rd to 5th Grade Sample List"; Wiktionary, "portable"
"The old stairs groaned under every step." What does the personification add to the sentence?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.3.1; its table "Elementary Figurative Language"
Read the passage. "The school's compost program began in September. Each lunch period, students sort fruit peels and napkins into green bins. The compost feeds the school garden, and the cafeteria now sends out half as many bags of trash." Which is the best summary?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.3.2
Read the story. "Kai promised to walk Mrs. Avery's dog every day of spring break. On the third morning his friends invited him to the lake. Kai looked at the leash, sighed, and told them he would come after the walk. Mrs. Avery's thank-you note stayed on his wall all year." Which is the best summary?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.R.3.2
"Unlike his boisterous cousins, who shouted and stomped through the house, Eli was quiet." What does boisterous most likely mean?Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, benchmark ELA.5.V.1.3; its table "Context Clues"; Wiktionary, "boisterous"
Unofficial fifth grade practice for Florida. A 2022 law replaced the FSA with FAST, so this page follows FAST's grade 5 mathematics and reading blueprints. Every question is our own. Not affiliated with the Florida Department of Education.
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What the grade 5 tests weigh
Mathematics has four reporting categories, each 23 to 29 percent of the test: whole numbers (decimal place value, multiplication and long division), fractions and decimals, algebraic reasoning, and geometry with measurement and data. Reading has three: prose and poetry and informational text at 25 to 35 percent each, and reading across genres with vocabulary at 35 to 50.
How the answers are checked
Every math answer is worked out a second time from the numbers in the question. Each reading question names its Florida benchmark and uses the definitions in the state's standards: the tables of figurative language, text structures, context clues and Greek and Latin roots. The sources of four word meanings and of the primary source definition are named under those answers.
No calculator is permitted on grade 5 mathematics, so work each math question here on scratch paper.
When a remainder is written as a fraction, Florida does not ask for simplest form: 128 2/12 is a complete answer.
Questions and answers
Is there still an FSA in 5th grade?
No. FAST, the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, took the place of the grade-level FSA in reading and mathematics under a law signed in March 2022. FAST was first given in the 2022-23 school year.
How many questions are on the 5th grade FAST?
Mathematics has 35 to 40 items, about 4 or 5 of them unscored field test items in spring. ELA reading has 36 to 40, plus about 5 field test items on the end-of-year test.
How long is the 5th grade FAST test?
Mathematics takes up to 80 minutes on the first two tests of the year and up to 100 on the third. Reading takes up to 90 minutes, then up to 120. A student still working may continue until the school day ends.
What is a good score on the 5th grade FAST?
Florida reports five achievement levels. Level 3, On Grade Level, begins at 222 in grade 5 mathematics and at 222 in grade 5 ELA reading. A percent right on this page is not a scale score and cannot predict a level.
What other state tests do Florida 5th graders take?
Science and writing. The Statewide Science Assessment is given in grades 5 and 8, and B.E.S.T. Writing is a separate essay test.