Third grade math in the four reporting categories of ILEARN, the test Indiana gives third graders today.
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Unofficial practice questions, not affiliated with the Indiana Department of Education. Bank checked October 13, 2026.
The real test: ILEARN math, grade 3
Items
30 to 35 operational items on the end-of-year summative test, and 20 to 25 on each of three Checkpoints.
When
Checkpoints in September to November, November to February and February to April. The summative test is given in April to May.
Reporting categories
Number Sense 20 to 27% of the summative test; Computation and Algebraic Thinking 29 to 37%; Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis 31 to 40%; Mathematical Pro
Reference sheet
The state's mathematics reference sheet file has pages for grades 4 to 8 and none for grade 3.
Scores
Grade 3 scores run from 403 to 552 in four proficiency levels. Approaching Proficiency starts at 468, At Proficiency at 485 and Above Proficiency at 512.
How it is given
As a computer adaptive test, with multiple-choice, multiple-select, fraction modeling, graphing and constructed-response items.
A number line from 0 to 1 is marked into 6 equal lengths. A dot sits at the end of the fifth length, counting from 0. Which fraction names the dot?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.3
A ribbon is cut into 4 equal pieces. What fraction of the whole ribbon is one piece?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.2
A window has 8 panes of glass, all the same size. 3 of the panes are colored. What fraction of the window is colored?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.2
How is six thousand four hundred eight written in standard form?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.1
Leo and Ana have sandwiches of the same size. Leo eats 2/3 of his. Ana eats 2/6 of hers. Which statement is true?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.5
What is 462 rounded to the nearest hundred?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.6
Which fraction is equal to 1/2?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.4
Which fraction is greater than 5/8?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.5
Which number is the same as 7,000 + 50 + 3?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.NS.1
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Computation and Algebraic Thinking 13
24 stickers are shared equally among 6 friends. Which equation shows how many stickers each friend gets?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.4
54 chairs are set up in rows of 9 chairs. How many rows are there?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.7
A baker puts 8 muffins in each box. She fills 5 boxes. How many muffins does she pack?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.7
A school collected 1,348 cans in the fall and 1,275 cans in the spring. How many cans did it collect in all?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.2
A theater has 850 seats. At a show, 596 seats are filled. How many seats are empty?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.2
Counters are set out in 4 rows with 7 counters in each row. Which multiplication fact does this array show?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.3
Jay knows that 8 × 9 = 72. Which fact can he tell from it without working anything out?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.5
There are 6 baskets on a shelf, and every basket is empty. Which equation shows how many apples are in the baskets in all?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.3
What is 7 × 6?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.6
What is 63 ÷ 9?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.6
What is 638 + 275?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.1
What is 902 − 467?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.1
What rule does this number pattern follow? 48, 42, 36, 30Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.CA.8
Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis 13
A bar graph with a scale that counts by twos shows the favorite recess games of a class: tag 14, kickball 20 and jump rope 8. How many students voted?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.DA.1
A class wants to know how warm the room is. Which tool and unit should it use?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.2
A rectangle is covered by unit squares with no gaps. There are 4 rows with 6 squares in each row. What is the area of the rectangle?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.5
A rectangle is split into 8 parts that all have the same area. What fraction of the whole rectangle is one part?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.G.3
A yard has four sides and a perimeter of 31 feet. Three of the sides are 7 feet, 9 feet and 7 feet long. How long is the fourth side?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.6
Ben has 1 one-dollar bill, 2 quarters, 3 dimes and 2 nickels. How much money does Ben have?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.4
In a pictograph, each picture of a book stands for 5 books read. Monday has 4 pictures and Tuesday has 6 pictures. How many more books were read on Tuesday than on Monday?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.DA.1
Kira has $5.00. A notebook costs $2.75 and a pen costs $1.50. Can she buy both?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.4
One bag of rice has a mass of 2 kilograms. What is the mass of 6 bags?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.1
Rectangle A is 5 units long and 3 units wide. Which rectangle has the same perimeter as Rectangle A and a different area?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.5
Soccer practice starts at 3:35 p.m. and lasts 50 minutes. At what time does practice end?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.M.3
Which of these is straight and has exactly two endpoints?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.G.2
Which shape is a quadrilateral?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, standard 3.G.1
Mathematical Processes 5
A classroom has 4 tables with 6 students at each table. Then 5 students leave for the library. How many students are still in the classroom?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, process standard PS.1, with standards 3.CA.7 and 3.CA.2
Lena had some beads. She used 27 beads and has 38 beads left. Which equation can be used to find how many beads she started with?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, process standard PS.4, with standard 3.CA.2
Packs of pencils cost $2 each. Omar buys 3 packs and pays with a $10 bill. How much change does he get?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, process standard PS.1, with standards 3.CA.7 and 3.M.4
Sam says 1/8 of a pie is more than 1/4 of the same pie, because 8 is more than 4. What is wrong with his thinking?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, process standard PS.3, with standard 3.NS.5
To find 6 × 7, Mia breaks 7 into 5 and 2 and adds (6 × 5) + (6 × 2). Which shows the same way to find 8 × 7?Indiana Department of Education, Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, Grade 3 ILEARN sheet, process standard PS.7, with standard 3.CA.5
How this list was compiled: Outline: Indiana Assessment Framework: Mathematics, the Grade 3 ILEARN sheet (test blueprint beginning school year 2025-2026), Indiana Department of Education, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KfjJpB4Ka3vjh79CsFddrkv0BwTd1BAW/edit, linked from the department's ILEARN page, https://www.in.gov/doe/students/assessment/ilearn/, read 2026-10-13: the reporting categories and their share of the summative test, the number of items, and the 2023 Indiana Academic Standards listed under each category with their limits (whole numbers to 10,000; fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8; multiplication and division within 100). Each question names the standard it practices. Every calculation is worked out a second time from the numbers in the question. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from an ILEARN or ISTEP+ test, a released item, an item specification of the state or another practice test. No released item or item specification was read.
How it works
Indiana third graders now take ILEARN, not ISTEP+. This unofficial practice test has 40 of our own math questions on the ILEARN blueprint, none a released item. Not affiliated with the Indiana Department of Education.
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What the ILEARN practice test for 3rd grade covers
Indiana's grade 3 blueprint weighs four reporting categories, and the 40 questions are split the same way. Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis, 13: quadrilaterals, time, money, area, perimeter and graphs. Computation and Algebraic Thinking, 13: adding, subtracting, multiplication and division facts to 10, and patterns. Number Sense, 9: whole numbers to 10,000, rounding, and fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8. Mathematical Processes, 5 two-step and spot-the-mistake problems.
ISTEP practice test for grade 3 math, on paper
ILEARN is taken on a computer. For third grade ISTEP practice with paper and pencil, these questions print as a test with its answers on a separate page.
Indiana's math reference sheet has no grade 3 page, so practice area by counting rows of squares and perimeter by adding sides.
Questions and answers
Is there still an ISTEP test in third grade?
No. Indiana's third graders take ILEARN, and the Department of Education's assessment programs do not include ISTEP+. ILEARN has three Checkpoints during the year and one summative test in the April to May window.
How many questions are on the 3rd grade ILEARN math test?
Between 30 and 35 items count on the summative test in spring, and between 20 and 25 on each Checkpoint. A computer-adaptive test chooses items student by student, so the blueprint publishes ranges.
What is a passing score on 3rd grade ILEARN math?
The grade 3 scale runs from 403 to 552, and At Proficiency begins at 485. Approaching Proficiency begins at 468 and Above Proficiency at 512. Practice percents do not convert to scale scores.
What math is most of the third grade ILEARN test?
Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis is the largest category at 31 to 40 percent of the summative test. Computation and Algebraic Thinking is 29 to 37 percent, Number Sense 20 to 27 percent and Mathematical Processes 11 to 20 percent.