A baker uses 2 1/4 cups of flour for bread and 1 2/3 cups for muffins. How much flour is that in all?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
A rope is 6 meters long. It is cut into pieces that are each 1/3 meter long. How many pieces are there?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.f (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
A trail is 3/4 mile long. Mia walks 2/3 of the trail. How far does she walk?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 0.9 × 0.4?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.g (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 1/4 ÷ 5?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.c (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 3/4 × 5/7?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
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Number, continued
What is 4 × 2 1/3?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 6.3 ÷ 0.7?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.g (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 8 ÷ 1/3?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.c (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 11/12 − 3/8?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.e (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
What is 15.3 − 6.78?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.3.g (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Which comparison of a fraction or mixed number with a decimal is true?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.2.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Which fraction is equal to 0.75?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Which is the expanded form of 205.48?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.1.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Which is the standard form of 40 + 7 + 0.3 + 0.006?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.1.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Which of the numbers 0.58, 0.6, 0.508 and 0.085 is the greatest?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.2.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Which whole number is equal to 6 × 10³?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.N.1.c (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Number strand)
Algebra 10
A school orders 1,440 pencils. They come packed 36 to a box. How many boxes is that?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
A theater has 48 rows with 125 seats in each row. How many seats does it have?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
Tickets cost $8 each. Jo buys 5 tickets and takes $3 off the whole order with a coupon. Which expression gives the cost in dollars?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is 529 × 43?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is 1,205 × 34?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is 2,500 ÷ 12?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is 3,128 ÷ 23?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is the value of (24 − 9) × 2 + 5?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is the value of 6 + 18 ÷ 3 × 2?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
What is the value of 50 − [3 × (4 + 2)]?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.A.1.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Algebra strand)
Geometry 10
A board is 4 1/2 feet long. How many inches long is it?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.3.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
A box is packed with 1-inch cubes in 3 layers. Each layer has 4 rows of 5 cubes. How many cubes fill the box?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.4.c (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
A fish tank is 20 inches long, 10 inches wide and 12 inches high. What is its volume?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.4.e (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
A plant is 3 inches tall when Kim starts to measure it, and it grows 2 inches each week. Points on her graph are (week, height in inches). Which point is on the graph for week 4?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.2.c (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
A point is 4 units to the right of the origin and 7 units up. Which ordered pair names the point?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.2.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
A tabletop is 3 1/2 feet long and 1 1/2 feet wide. What is its area?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.4.b (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
A unit square is cut into 4 equal columns and 3 equal rows. What is the area of one of the small rectangles, in square units?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.4.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
The base of a rectangular prism has an area of 18 square centimeters. The prism is 5 centimeters tall. What is its volume?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.4.d (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
How many vertices does a rectangular prism have?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.1.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
Which of these statements about quadrilaterals is always true?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.G.1.c (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Geometry strand)
Data 7
A line plot shows how much water 8 students drank. Three drank 1/2 liter, four drank 3/4 liter and one drank 1 liter. What is the difference between the greatest and the least amount?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
A line plot shows the lengths of 6 ribbons in feet: 1/4, 1/4, 1/2, 1/2, 1/2 and 3/4. What is the total length of the ribbons?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
A line plot shows the lengths of 10 leaves. Two leaves are 1 1/2 inches long, five are 2 inches long and three are 2 1/2 inches long. How many leaves are longer than 1 3/4 inches?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
A line plot shows the weights of 5 bags of trail mix in pounds: 1/2, 1/2, 1, 1 1/2 and 1 1/2. All the trail mix is poured together and then shared equally into 5 bags. How much is in each bag?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
A table shows snowfall in a town: 1 3/4 inches in December, 2 1/2 inches in January and 3/4 inch in February. How much more snow fell in January than in December?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
A table shows the books four classes read: Room A 128, Room B 96, Room C 143 and Room D 109. How many more books did Rooms A and C read together than Rooms B and D together?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
One table shows a shop sold 45 muffins on Friday and 60 on Saturday. A second table shows each muffin costs $2. How much money did the shop take in for muffins on the two days?Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics, grade 5, indicator 5.D.2.a (NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Data strand)
How this list was compiled: Outline: NSCAS Math Table of Specifications, Grade 5 (Nebraska Department of Education, version 5), https://www.education.ne.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NSCAS-Math-TOS-Grade-5_v5.pdf, linked from NSCAS Mathematics, https://www.education.ne.gov/assessment/nscas-general-summative-assessment/nscas-mathematics/, read 2026-10-10. Each question names the indicator it practices as the table prints it, from Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Mathematics (2022). Only indicators the table marks for the state test are used; none of the five marked "Assessed at the local level". Every numeric 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 NSCAS test, a sample or practice test of the state or its test vendor, a released item or another practice test.
How it works
Unofficial practice for grade 5 NSCAS (Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System) mathematics. The 44 questions were written for this site from the state table of specifications; none is a state sample item. Not affiliated with the Nebraska Department of Education.
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What the Nebraska grade 5 math test covers
Nebraska's table of specifications splits grade 5 into four strands, and the 44 questions keep their shares. Number is 35 to 45 percent: decimals to thousandths, powers of 10, and all four operations with fractions and decimals. Algebra, 20 to 30 percent, is multi-digit multiplication, long division and order of operations. Geometry, 15 to 25 percent, is prisms, coordinates, unit conversions, fraction areas and volume. Data, 10 to 20 percent, is tables and line plots.
Left out on purpose
Five indicators carry the table's mark "Assessed at the local level" and are not here. The other 24 each have a question, with the code, such as 5.N.3.d, under the answer.
The grade 5 reference sheet prints V = lwh and the unit conversions. Learn where each one sits on the sheet.
Questions and answers
What math test do 5th graders take in Nebraska?
NSCAS mathematics. Each spring every student in grades 3 to 8 takes the NSCAS General tests in English language arts and mathematics, and grade 5 also takes science. This page practices grade 5 mathematics only.
Can you use a calculator on the NSCAS grade 5 math test?
No. Nebraska's calculator policy for the paper version lists no calculator for grades 3 to 5. Calculators begin in grade 6, on Part 1 only.
Is there a formula sheet for the Nebraska grade 5 math test?
Yes. The state's grade 5 reference sheet gives area and perimeter for rectangles and squares, V = lwh = Bh for a rectangular prism, and conversions for length, volume and weight. The NSCAS Mathematics page links to it.
How is NSCAS math scored in grade 5?
With a scale score from 1000 to 1550 and one of three levels: Developing, On Track or Advanced. The state documents read for this page give no percent to pass, so a percent here is practice only.
Where is the state's own Nebraska grade 5 math practice test?
Nebraska's NSCAS Mathematics page points grades 3 to 8 to sample tests on its test vendor's Nebraska portal, and the box under the questions has the link. The questions on this page are different ones.