A coach has 7 bags with 8 soccer balls in each bag. How many soccer balls are there?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
A gardener plants 45 seeds in rows of 5 seeds. In 45 ÷ 5 = 9, what does the 9 stand for?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
A shelf holds 6 rows of jars with 4 jars in each row. Which expression gives the total number of jars?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
A teacher shares 63 markers equally among 9 tables. How many markers does each table get?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking, continued
Dana wants to find 48 ÷ 6. Which unknown-factor equation asks the same thing?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.B.6; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Look at the pattern 7, 14, 21, 28, 35. Which statement about the numbers is true?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.D.9; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Luis knows that 9 × 4 = 36. Which fact does he also know without doing more work?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.B.5; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Notebooks cost $4 each. Ben buys 6 notebooks and one pen for $3. Which equation gives the total cost c, in dollars?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.D.8; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Priya buys 5 packs of stickers with 9 stickers in each pack. She puts 12 stickers on her notebook. How many stickers does she have left?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.D.8; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
What is 72 ÷ 8?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.C.7; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
What number makes 6 × ? = 42 true?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.4; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
What number makes ? ÷ 4 = 8 true?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.4; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Which expression is equal to 7 × 6?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.OA.B.5; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions 11
A garden bed is split into 8 equal parts. Tomatoes grow in 5 of the parts. What fraction of the bed has tomatoes?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
A number line from 0 to 1 is cut into 8 equal parts. A point sits at the end of the third part, counting from 0. Which fraction names the point?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
A whole is cut into 3 equal parts. What fraction names one of the parts?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
Jay says half of his small pizza is the same amount as half of Kim's large pizza. Why is Jay wrong?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
Mia eats 3/8 of a granola bar. Leo eats 3/4 of a bar of the same size. Who eats more?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
What is 9 × 30?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
What is 437 + 285?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
What is 462 rounded to the nearest ten?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
What is 600 − 248?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
Which fraction is equivalent to 4/6?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
Which fraction sits at the same point on a number line as the whole number 1?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten & Number and Operations - Fractions
Measurement 11
A bag of flour has a mass of 750 grams. A baker uses 280 grams. How many grams of flour are left?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A clock shows 10:42. What time will it be 25 minutes later?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A cook pours 24 liters of soup equally into 4 pots. How many liters of soup are in each pot?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A garden is a rectangle 9 meters long and 5 meters wide. How much fence goes all the way around it?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.C.6; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A patio is made of a 5 by 4 rectangle joined to a 3 by 2 rectangle. The two parts do not overlap. What is the area of the patio?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.B.5; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A pitcher holds 2 liters of juice. How many liters of juice fill 6 of these pitchers?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A poster is 9 inches wide and 6 inches tall. What is the area of the poster?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.B.5; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A rectangle is covered by 5 rows of unit squares with 7 squares in each row. There are no gaps and no overlaps. What is its area?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.B.4; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
A square tile has a perimeter of 20 centimeters. How long is each side of the tile?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.C.6; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
Swim class starts at 4:50 and ends at 5:25 the same afternoon. How long is the class?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
Which expression gives the area of a rectangle that is 6 units wide and 13 units long?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.M.B.5; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Measurement
Geometry and Data Literacy 6
A hexagon is split into 6 triangles that all have the same area. What fraction of the hexagon's area is each triangle?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.G.A.2; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Geometry and Data Literacy
A shape has 4 sides of equal length and 4 square corners. Which list gives names that all fit the shape?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.G.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Geometry and Data Literacy
A student measures six leaves in inches: 2 1/4, 2 1/2, 2 1/4, 3, 2 1/4 and 2 1/2. On a line plot of the lengths, which length has the most marks?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.DL.B.4; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Geometry and Data Literacy
In a bar graph, each square stands for 4 students. The soccer bar is 7 squares tall and the tennis bar is 3 squares tall. How many more students chose soccer than tennis?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.DL.B.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Geometry and Data Literacy
In a picture graph, each sun stands for 5 sunny days. April has 4 suns and May has 6 suns. How many sunny days did the two months have in all?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.DL.B.3; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Geometry and Data Literacy
Which of these shapes is a quadrilateral?New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics (2023), grade 3, standard 3.G.A.1; NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprint, grade 3, reporting category Geometry and Data Literacy
How this list was compiled: Outline: NJSLA-A Mathematics Blueprints, Grade 3 (New Jersey Department of Education), https://www.nj.gov/education/assessment/adaptive/mathblueprints.shtml, read 2026-10-13. Each question names the standard it practices in the 2023 New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3, https://www.nj.gov/education/standards/math/2023/3.shtml, read 2026-10-13. Every answer is arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked out twice. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from an NJSLA or NJ ASK test, a practice test of the state, a released item or another practice test.
How it works
NJ ASK is no longer given: third graders in New Jersey now take the NJSLA. This unofficial practice has 41 grade 3 math questions, all our own, from the state's 2023 standards. Not affiliated with the New Jersey Department of Education.
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What the grade 3 NJSLA math test covers
The state's blueprint sets a least and a most for four reporting categories out of 41 items, and the questions here sit inside every range. Operations and Algebraic Thinking has 13: multiplying and dividing within 100, unknown factors, two-step word problems and patterns. Base ten and fractions share 11: rounding, adding and subtracting within 1,000, unit fractions, number lines and comparing. Measurement has 11: time, liters and grams, area and perimeter. Geometry and Data Literacy has 6.
A standard under every answer
An answer shows its steps and its New Jersey standard, such as 3.OA.A.3. The 2023 standards code measurement 3.M and data literacy 3.DL.
The standards keep grade 3 fractions to denominators 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8.
Questions and answers
Are there still NJ ASK practice tests for grade 3?
NJ ASK is no longer given, so no new ones are made. New Jersey's testing history page says PARCC tests replaced the NJASK in grades 3 to 8 in 2014-15. Grade 3 now takes the NJSLA-A, which these questions practice.
When did third graders first take NJ ASK?
The state's history page says grade 3 NJ ASK was field-tested in May 2003 and fully operational the next year. It was added to meet federal testing rules and the state's aim that students read at grade level by the end of grade 3.
How many questions are on the grade 3 NJSLA math test?
41 items. The test is adaptive, so the blueprint gives each reporting category a range: 12 to 14 items for Operations and Algebraic Thinking, 10 to 12 each for base ten with fractions and for Measurement, and 5 to 7 for Geometry and Data Literacy.
How long is the NJSLA math test in grade 3?
150 minutes. The state's unit testing times page gives NJSLA-A mathematics two sessions of 75 minutes each.
Where is the state's own grade 3 NJSLA practice test?
On the New Jersey Assessments Portal: choose Practice Tests, continue as a guest and pick grade 3. The state says those tests are for getting used to the platform and its tools and are not meant for studying.