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4th Grade PARCC Math Practice Test

Fourth grade math in the four parts of the PARCC blueprint, on screen or as a printed test with answers.

A rope is 9 times as long as a 4-foot pole. Which equation gives the length of the rope, r, in feet?

Pick an answer, then press Check answer. Then you see Correct or Not quite, with the reason. Keys: A to D pick, Enter checks.

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Unofficial practice questions, not affiliated with New Meridian, CCSSO or any state that has given PARCC tests. Bank checked October 8, 2026.

The real test: PARCC math, grade 4

Task types
Type I: concepts, skills and procedures, machine scored. Type II: mathematical reasoning. Type III: modeling and application.
Scored tasks, full form
33 Type I, 4 Type II and 3 Type III. Field-test items that do not count are added.
Scored tasks, short form
25 Type I, 3 Type II and 3 Type III, worth 52 points.
Points by sub-claim
Major content 21, additional and supporting content 9, reasoning 10, modeling 12 (short form).
Units and calculator
Full form: four units of 60 minutes. Short form: three units of 60 minutes. Every unit is non-calculator.
Scores
Five performance levels on a scale of 650 to 850. In grade 4 mathematics Level 4 runs from 750 to 795 and Level 5 from 796 to 850.

Checked October 8, 2026 against New Meridian's mathematics blueprints, unit structure and evidence statement tables, and the PARCC score ranges printed by the District of Columbia's state education office. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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All 52 questions

Major content 21

  • A banner is 42 feet long. That is 7 times as long as a flag. How long is the flag? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.OA.2
  • A camp has 58 boys and 49 girls. Four campers stay on shore, and the rest ride in boats that hold 6 campers each. What is the fewest boats needed? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.OA.3-2
  • A jug holds 7/8 gallon of juice. Sam pours out 3/8 gallon. How much juice is left in the jug? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.3d
  • A nail is 0.07 meter long. Which fraction of a meter is that? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.6
  • A rope is 9 times as long as a 4-foot pole. Which equation gives the length of the rope, r, in feet? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.OA.1-2
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Major content, continued

  • A school has 12 boxes of 25 pencils. It gives out 180 pencils, then buys 3 more boxes of 25. How many pencils does it have now? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.OA.3-1
  • Each of 6 plant pots needs 2/3 cup of soil. How many cups of soil do the pots need in all? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.4c
  • Four friends ran these distances: Ana 5/6 mile, Ben 3/4 mile, Cy 7/12 mile and Dee 2/3 mile. Who ran the farthest? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.A.Int.1
  • Four snails crawled 0.4, 0.38, 0.09 and 0.3 meter. Which distance is the greatest? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.7
  • How many times as much is the value of the 5 in 25,318 as the value of the 5 in 12,573? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.1
  • What is 5 1/4 − 2 3/4? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.3c
  • What is 6/10 + 19/100? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.5
  • What is 7 × 2,364? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.5-1
  • What is 34 × 57? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.5-2
  • What is 437 ÷ 6? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.6-1
  • What is 6,478 + 2,895? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.4-1
  • What is 8,204 − 3,657? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.4-2
  • What is 349,612 rounded to the nearest ten thousand? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.3
  • Which expression is equal to 4 × 3/8? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.4b-1
  • Which number is three hundred six thousand, forty-two? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NBT.2
  • Which number makes 2/3 = □/12 true? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim A, major content, evidence statement 4.NF.1-2

Additional and supporting content 9

  • A movie lasts 2 hours 15 minutes. A cartoon lasts 48 minutes. How many minutes longer is the movie? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.MD.2-1
  • A pattern starts at 2 and follows the rule "multiply by 3." What is the fifth number in the pattern? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.OA.5
  • A rectangular garden has a perimeter of 46 feet and a length of 15 feet. What is its width? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.MD.3
  • An angle of 165° is cut into three smaller angles. Two of them measure 65° and 40°. What does the third angle measure? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.MD.7
  • An angle turns through 1/4 of a full circle. A full circle is 360 one-degree turns. What is the measure of the angle? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.MD.5
  • One pound is 16 ounces. A bag of apples weighs 5 pounds. How many ounces does it weigh? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.MD.1
  • The PARCC evidence tables define a trapezoid as a quadrilateral that has one or more pairs of parallel sides. By that definition, which shape is also a trapezoid? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.G.2
  • Which list shows every factor pair of 28? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.OA.4-1
  • Which of these numbers is composite? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim B, additional and supporting content, evidence statement 4.OA.4-4

Reasoning 10

  • 45 eggs go into cartons that hold 6 eggs each. Ray says 7 cartons will hold every egg, because 45 ÷ 6 = 7 remainder 3. What is the flaw? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.5-1
  • Jo adds 2/6 + 3/6 and writes 5/12. What did she do wrong? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.5-4
  • Kai says 0.3 is less than 0.25, because 3 is less than 25. Which statement is correct? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.5-5
  • Leo rounds 4,500 to the nearest thousand and writes 4,000, because the thousands digit is 4. Which statement corrects him? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.3
  • Mia says 2/3 = 4/5, because she added 2 to the numerator and to the denominator. Which statement corrects her? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.5-2
  • On a number line from 0 to 1 marked in sixths, how does the point for 5/6 compare with the point for 2/3? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.7-2
  • Sam says 1/8 is greater than 1/6, because 8 is greater than 6. Why is he wrong? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.5-3
  • Tia says 252 ÷ 7 = 36. Which equation can she use to check her answer? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.2
  • To find 3 × 12 + 9, a student writes: 3 × 12 = 36 + 9 = 45. The final answer, 45, is right. What is wrong with the work? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.6-1
  • Which expression has the same value as 6 × 48? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim C, reasoning, evidence statement 4.C.1-1

Modeling 12

  • A baker has 6 1/4 pounds of flour. She uses 2 3/4 pounds for bread and 1 2/4 pounds for rolls. How much flour is left? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • A coach has 5 bags of 18 balls and 7 loose balls. She shares all of them equally among 8 teams, giving each team as many as she can. How many balls are left over? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • A farmer packs 1,248 apples equally into 8 crates and then sells 5 of the crates. How many apples are left? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • A floor is a rectangle 8 feet long and 6 feet wide. Square tiles that are 1 foot on each side come in boxes of 10. What is the fewest boxes needed to cover the floor? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.2
  • A printer prints 2,350 pages on each of 4 days and 1,875 pages on the fifth day. The office started with 3 boxes of 5,000 sheets. How many sheets are left? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • A theater has 24 rows of 36 seats. It sells 590 tickets on Friday and 715 on Saturday. How many seats in all were empty over the two nights? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • In a picture graph, each book symbol stands for 5 books read. Monday has 6 symbols, Tuesday has 4 and Wednesday has 13. How many more books were read on Wednesday than on Monday and Tuesday together? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.2
  • Jon saved $36. Kim saved 3 times as much as Jon. Lee saved $25 less than Kim. How much did the three of them save in all? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • Lena walks 3/4 mile to school and 3/4 mile home on each of 5 school days. How many miles does she walk in the week? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • One batch of granola needs 2/3 cup of oats. Dana makes 4 batches and starts with 3 cups of oats. How much oats is left? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1
  • Soccer practice starts at 3:40 p.m. The warm-up takes 15 minutes, drills take 25 minutes and a game takes 35 minutes. When does practice end? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.2
  • Zoo tickets cost $14 for an adult and $9 for a child. A group of 3 adults and 5 children pays with a $100 bill. How much change does the group get? Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables (PARCC test design, New Meridian), sub-claim D, modeling, evidence statement 4.D.1

How this list was compiled: Outline: the Grade 4 Mathematics Evidence Statement Tables of the PARCC test design, https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Grade-4-Math-Evidence-Statements_with-ABO-subcliam-points_a11y.pdf, with the short-form Mathematics High Level Blueprint, https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NMC-Math-ABO-High-Level-Blueprint.pdf, both published by New Meridian and linked from https://resources.newmeridiancorp.org/math-test-design/, read 2026-10-08. Each question names the sub-claim and the evidence statement it practices. Every answer is worked out again from the numbers in the question. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site from the published evidence statements. Nothing is copied or reworded from a PARCC test, a released item, a practice test, an example in the evidence tables or another practice test.

How it works

Unofficial fourth grade math practice built on the published PARCC test design: one question for each point of its short-form blueprint, all written for this page. Not affiliated with New Meridian, CCSSO or any state that has given PARCC tests.

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What the PARCC blueprint weighs

The short-form blueprint gives grade 4 mathematics 52 points in four parts. Major content, 21: multi-digit arithmetic, fractions, decimals and word problems. Additional and supporting content, 9: factors, patterns, measurement, angles and shapes. Reasoning, 10: explaining a method or finding the flaw in one. Modeling, 12: problems of three steps or more.

Is the PARCC test still given?

Not under that name in the places checked for this page. The District of Columbia gave PARCC tests from 2015 to 2023 and now gives DC CAPE. New Jersey began them in 2014-15 and now gives the NJSLA. New Meridian still publishes the test design that this page follows.

  • Every unit of the real grade 4 test is non-calculator, so put the calculator away before you start.
  • The evidence tables keep fraction denominators to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 100. Practice renaming among those.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the 4th grade PARCC math test?

The full-form blueprint lists 40 scored tasks: 33 Type I, 4 Type II and 3 Type III. The short form lists 31: 25, 3 and 3. Both add field-test items that do not count.

How long is the PARCC math test in 4th grade?

The full form has four units of 60 minutes each, and the short form has three. The District of Columbia moved to the shorter blueprints in the 2020-21 school year.

What is a good PARCC math score in 4th grade?

Scores run from 650 to 850 in five performance levels. For grade 4 mathematics the District of Columbia's state education office prints Level 4 as 750 to 795 and Level 5 as 796 to 850. A percent right here is not a scaled score.

Is this the official PARCC practice test for 4th grade math?

No. It is unofficial: each question was written for this site from a published evidence statement, named under its answer, and none is a released or practice item. The box under the questions links to the published test design.

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