RICAS Math Practice Test

Pick a grade from 3 to 8 and practice the categories Rhode Island's test design weighs, every answer worked out.

A baker puts 6 muffins in each box. She fills 7 boxes. How many muffins does she pack?

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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The real test: RICAS mathematics, grades 3 to 8

Sessions
Two. Each has a suggested length of 90 minutes, and all students are eligible for extended time.
Questions that count
40 in every grade. Grade 3: 36 one-point questions and 4 constructed responses, 48 points. Grades 4 to 8: 34 one-point, 2 two-point and 4 constructed responses,
Questions that do not count
A few field-test and equating questions are mixed in: 4 in grades 3 to 6, 6 in grades 7 and 8.
Question kinds
Multiple choice, multiple select, short answer, technology enhanced and constructed response.
Calculator
None in grades 3 to 6. In grades 7 and 8, in session 2 only.
Reference sheet
Given on screen in grades 5 to 8. Not part of the standard test in grades 3 and 4.

Checked October 7, 2026 against RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) and the 2022 grade fact sheets of the Rhode Island Department of Education. Rules change, so confirm with the agency itself before your test.

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Grade 3: all 20 questions

Operations and Algebraic Thinking 6

  • A baker puts 6 muffins in each box. She fills 7 boxes. How many muffins does she pack? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.3; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • A pattern starts 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and keeps adding 4. Which statement about the pattern is true? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.OA.D.9; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • Mr. Silva shares 56 stickers equally among 8 students. How many stickers does each student get? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.2; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking, continued

  • Nora has 45 beads. She buys 3 packs with 8 beads in each pack. How many beads does she have now? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.OA.D.8; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • What number makes this equation true? 9 × ? = 72 Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.OA.A.4; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • Which expression has the same value as 4 × 7? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.OA.B.5; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations in Base Ten 3

  • A school library has 348 fiction books and 275 nonfiction books. How many books is that in all? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.2; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 6 × 70? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 467 rounded to the nearest hundred? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NBT.A.1; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten

Number and Operations: Fractions 4

  • A ribbon is cut into 8 equal pieces. Lia uses 3 of the pieces. What fraction of the ribbon does she use? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.1; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Which comparison is true? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Which fraction is at the same point on a number line as the whole number 2? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Which fraction is equal to 1/2? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.NF.A.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions

Measurement and Data 5

  • A bag of apples has a mass of 850 grams. A bag of pears has a mass of 620 grams. How many more grams is the bag of apples? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.MD.A.2; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A garden is a rectangle 8 meters long and 5 meters wide. What is its perimeter in meters? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.MD.D.8; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A rug is a rectangle 9 feet long and 6 feet wide. What is its area in square feet? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.MD.C.7; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • In a picture graph, each star stands for 5 books. Dev has 6 stars in his row. How many books did Dev read? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.MD.B.3; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • Soccer practice starts at 3:40 p.m. and ends at 4:25 p.m. How many minutes long is practice? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.MD.A.1; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data

Geometry 2

  • A square is divided into 4 parts with equal areas. What fraction of the area of the square is each part? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.G.A.2; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • Which shape is always a quadrilateral? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 3, standard 3.G.A.1; RICAS reporting category Geometry

How this list was compiled: Outline: RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) of the Rhode Island Department of Education, https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Assessment/RICAS/RICAS%20G3-8%20Math%20Test%20Design%202019.pdf, and the grade 3 mathematics fact sheet, both linked from RICAS Assessments, https://ride.ri.gov/instruction-assessment/assessment/ricas-assessments, read 2026-10-07. Each question names the standard it practices in the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Standards/Rhode%20Island%20Core%20Standards%20V2%204.9.21.pdf, read 2026-10-07. Each answer that is a number is arithmetic on the numbers in the question and was worked out a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a RICAS or MCAS test, a released item, a practice test of either state or another practice test.

Grade 4: all 20 questions

Operations and Algebraic Thinking 4

  • A class of 26 students and 4 adults rides in vans. Each van holds 8 people. What is the fewest vans the class needs? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.OA.A.3; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • A pattern starts at 3 and follows the rule "add 7". What is the 6th number in the pattern? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.OA.C.5; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • A red rope is 9 feet long. A blue rope is 4 times as long as the red rope. How many feet long is the blue rope? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.OA.A.2; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking, continued

  • Which number is prime? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.OA.B.4; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Number and Operations in Base Ten 4

  • In the number 7,742, the 7 in the thousands place is worth how many times as much as the 7 in the hundreds place? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NBT.A.1; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 36 × 24? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NBT.B.5; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 1,256 ÷ 4? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NBT.B.6; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 68,451 rounded to the nearest thousand? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NBT.A.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten

Number and Operations: Fractions 6

  • A recipe uses 2/3 cup of milk. How much milk is needed for 5 batches? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NF.B.4; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Sam walks 3/8 mile to school and then 4/8 mile to the library. How far does he walk in all? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NF.B.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • What is 2 3/5 − 1 1/5? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NF.B.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Which comparison is true? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NF.A.2; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Which decimal is equal to 7/100? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NF.C.6; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Which fraction is equivalent to 3/4? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.NF.A.1; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions

Measurement and Data 4

  • A movie starts at 1:45 p.m. and runs for 1 hour 50 minutes. At what time does it end? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.MD.A.2; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A rectangular room has an area of 96 square feet. It is 8 feet wide. How many feet long is it? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.MD.A.3; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A straight angle measures 180°. It is split into two angles, and one of them measures 65°. What does the other angle measure? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.MD.C.7; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • How many inches are in 6 feet? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.MD.A.1; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data

Geometry 2

  • A triangle has one angle that measures exactly 90°. What kind of triangle is it? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.G.A.2; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • How many lines of symmetry does a square have? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 4, standard 4.G.A.3; RICAS reporting category Geometry

How this list was compiled: Outline: RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) of the Rhode Island Department of Education, https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Assessment/RICAS/RICAS%20G3-8%20Math%20Test%20Design%202019.pdf, and the grade 4 mathematics fact sheet, both linked from RICAS Assessments, https://ride.ri.gov/instruction-assessment/assessment/ricas-assessments, read 2026-10-07. Each question names the standard it practices in the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Standards/Rhode%20Island%20Core%20Standards%20V2%204.9.21.pdf, read 2026-10-07. Each answer that is a number is arithmetic on the numbers in the question and was worked out a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a RICAS or MCAS test, a released item, a practice test of either state or another practice test.

Grade 5: all 20 questions

Operations and Algebraic Thinking 3

  • Pattern A starts at 0 and adds 2 each time. Pattern B starts at 0 and adds 6 each time. How do matching terms compare? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.OA.B.3; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • What is the value of 3 × (8 + 4) − 6? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.OA.A.1; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • Which expression means "add 9 and 6, then multiply by 4"? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.OA.A.2; RICAS reporting category Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Number and Operations in Base Ten 6

  • In 4.44, the 4 in the ones place is worth how many times as much as the 4 in the tenths place? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NBT.A.1; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 3.6 × 10³? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NBT.A.2; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 4.5 × 0.6? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NBT.B.7; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 7.386 rounded to the nearest tenth? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NBT.A.4; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • What is 214 × 32? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NBT.B.5; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • Which decimal is greatest? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NBT.A.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations in Base Ten

Number and Operations: Fractions 5

  • A hiker walks 3 1/2 miles before lunch and 1 3/4 miles after lunch. How many miles is that in all? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NF.A.2; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • Four friends share 3 pizzas equally. How much pizza does each friend get? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NF.B.3; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • What is 1/3 ÷ 4? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NF.B.7; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • What is 2/3 + 1/4? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NF.A.1; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions
  • What is 3/4 × 2/5? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.NF.B.4; RICAS reporting category Number and Operations: Fractions

Measurement and Data 4

  • A box is 5 inches long, 4 inches wide and 3 inches tall. What is its volume in cubic inches? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.MD.C.5; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A jug holds 2.5 liters of water. How many milliliters is that? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.MD.A.1; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A line plot shows the lengths of four ribbons: 1/2 foot, 1/2 foot, 3/4 foot and 1/4 foot. What is their total length? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.MD.B.2; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data
  • A solid is made of two rectangular prisms that do not overlap. Their volumes are 48 cubic centimeters and 30 cubic centimeters. What is the volume of the solid in cubic centimeters? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.MD.C.5; RICAS reporting category Measurement and Data

Geometry 2

  • A point is at (4, 7) on a coordinate grid. How do you reach it from the origin? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.G.A.1; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • Which statement is true of every square? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 5, standard 5.G.B.3; RICAS reporting category Geometry

How this list was compiled: Outline: RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) of the Rhode Island Department of Education, https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Assessment/RICAS/RICAS%20G3-8%20Math%20Test%20Design%202019.pdf, and the grade 5 mathematics fact sheet, both linked from RICAS Assessments, https://ride.ri.gov/instruction-assessment/assessment/ricas-assessments, read 2026-10-07. Each question names the standard it practices in the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Standards/Rhode%20Island%20Core%20Standards%20V2%204.9.21.pdf, read 2026-10-07. Each answer that is a number is arithmetic on the numbers in the question and was worked out a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a RICAS or MCAS test, a released item, a practice test of either state or another practice test.

Grade 6: all 20 questions

Ratios and Proportional Relationships 4

  • A bag holds 6 red tiles and 10 blue tiles. What is the ratio of red tiles to all the tiles in the bag? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.RP.A.1; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships
  • A printer prints 180 pages in 12 minutes. What is its rate in pages per minute? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.RP.A.2; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships
  • A recipe uses 2 cups of rice for every 5 cups of water. How many cups of water are needed for 6 cups of rice? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.RP.A.3; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships
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Ratios and Proportional Relationships, continued

  • What is 35% of 80? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.RP.A.3; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships

The Number System 4

  • What is 3/4 ÷ 1/8? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.NS.A.1; RICAS reporting category The Number System
  • What is 12.6 ÷ 0.3? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.NS.B.3; RICAS reporting category The Number System
  • What is the greatest common factor of 36 and 60? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.NS.B.4; RICAS reporting category The Number System
  • Which list is in order from least to greatest? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.NS.C.7; RICAS reporting category The Number System

Expressions and Equations 6

  • A car travels 55 miles each hour. Which equation gives the distance d in miles after t hours? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.EE.C.9; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • Riders on a roller coaster must be taller than 48 inches. Which inequality shows the heights h that may ride? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.EE.B.8; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • What is the value of 2³ + 5²? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.EE.A.1; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • What is the value of 4x + 7 when x = 6? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.EE.A.2; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • What value of x makes x + 18 = 45 true? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.EE.B.7; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • Which expression is equivalent to 3(x + 5)? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.EE.A.3; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations

Geometry 3

  • A box is 4 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 1/2 feet tall. What is its volume in cubic feet? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.G.A.2; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • A cube has edges 3 centimeters long. What is its surface area in square centimeters? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.G.A.4; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • A triangle has a base of 12 centimeters and a height of 7 centimeters. What is its area in square centimeters? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.G.A.1; RICAS reporting category Geometry

Statistics and Probability 3

  • Five quiz scores are 6, 8, 8, 9 and 14. What is the mean score? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.SP.B.5; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability
  • What is the median of 3, 9, 4, 12 and 7? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.SP.B.5; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability
  • Which of these is a statistical question? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 6, standard 6.SP.A.1; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability

How this list was compiled: Outline: RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) of the Rhode Island Department of Education, https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Assessment/RICAS/RICAS%20G3-8%20Math%20Test%20Design%202019.pdf, and the grade 6 mathematics fact sheet, both linked from RICAS Assessments, https://ride.ri.gov/instruction-assessment/assessment/ricas-assessments, read 2026-10-07. Each question names the standard it practices in the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Standards/Rhode%20Island%20Core%20Standards%20V2%204.9.21.pdf, read 2026-10-07. Each answer that is a number is arithmetic on the numbers in the question and was worked out a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a RICAS or MCAS test, a released item, a practice test of either state or another practice test.

Grade 7: all 20 questions

Ratios and Proportional Relationships 4

  • A hiker walks 1/2 mile in 1/4 hour. At that rate, how many miles does the hiker walk in 1 hour? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.RP.A.1; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships
  • A jacket costs $40. It is on sale for 25% off. What is the sale price? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.RP.A.3; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships
  • A meal costs $24. Sam leaves a 15% tip. How much is the tip? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.RP.A.3; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships
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Ratios and Proportional Relationships, continued

  • y is proportional to x, and y = 21 when x = 3. What is the constant of proportionality? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.RP.A.2; RICAS reporting category Ratios and Proportional Relationships

The Number System 4

  • The temperature was −6°F at dawn. It rose 4°F each hour for 3 hours. What was the temperature then? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.NS.A.3; RICAS reporting category The Number System
  • What is (−4) × (−7)? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.NS.A.2; RICAS reporting category The Number System
  • What is 6 − (−9)? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.NS.A.1; RICAS reporting category The Number System
  • What is −8 + 13? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.NS.A.1; RICAS reporting category The Number System

Expressions and Equations 5

  • Tickets cost $8.50 each. A group pays a single $6 service fee for its order. What is the total cost of 4 tickets? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.EE.B.3; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • What is the solution of 2x − 3 > 11? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.EE.B.4; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • What value of x makes 3x + 5 = 26 true? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.EE.B.4; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • Which expression is equivalent to 5x − 2(x − 4)? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.EE.A.1; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations
  • Which is a factored form of 6x + 18? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.EE.A.1; RICAS reporting category Expressions and Equations

Geometry 3

  • A circle has a radius of 5 centimeters. What is its area in square centimeters? Use 3.14 for π. Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.G.B.4; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • On a map, 1 inch stands for 20 miles. Two towns are 3.5 inches apart on the map. How many miles apart are the towns? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.G.A.1; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • Two angles are supplementary. One measures 47°. What does the other measure? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.G.B.5; RICAS reporting category Geometry

Statistics and Probability 4

  • A bag holds 3 red, 5 blue and 2 green marbles. One marble is picked at random. What is the probability that it is blue? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.SP.C.7; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability
  • A fair coin is flipped twice. What is the probability that both flips land heads? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.SP.C.8; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability
  • A forecast gives the probability of rain tomorrow as 0.9. What does that mean? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.SP.C.5; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability
  • A school wants to know which lunch its students like best. Which sample is most likely to represent the whole school? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 7, standard 7.SP.A.1; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability

How this list was compiled: Outline: RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) of the Rhode Island Department of Education, https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Assessment/RICAS/RICAS%20G3-8%20Math%20Test%20Design%202019.pdf, and the grade 7 mathematics fact sheet, both linked from RICAS Assessments, https://ride.ri.gov/instruction-assessment/assessment/ricas-assessments, read 2026-10-07. Each question names the standard it practices in the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Standards/Rhode%20Island%20Core%20Standards%20V2%204.9.21.pdf, read 2026-10-07. Each answer that is a number is arithmetic on the numbers in the question and was worked out a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a RICAS or MCAS test, a released item, a practice test of either state or another practice test.

Grade 8: all 20 questions

The Number System and Expressions and Equations 8

  • A line passes through (0, 0) and (4, 10). What is its slope? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.EE.B.5; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
  • Between which two whole numbers does √40 lie? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.NS.A.2; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
  • What are the solutions of x² = 81? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.EE.A.2; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
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The Number System and Expressions and Equations, continued

  • What is (4 × 10³) × (2 × 10⁵) in scientific notation? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.EE.A.4; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
  • What is the solution of the system y = 2x + 1 and y = x + 4? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.EE.C.8; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
  • What value of x makes 4(x − 2) = 2x + 10 true? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.EE.C.7; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
  • Which expression is equal to 3⁴ × 3²? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.EE.A.1; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations
  • Which number is irrational? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.NS.A.1; RICAS reporting category The Number System and Expressions and Equations

Functions 4

  • A gym charges a $30 joining fee and $15 each month. Which equation gives the total cost c after m months? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.F.B.4; RICAS reporting category Functions
  • The graph of a linear function passes through (1, 5) and (3, 13). What is its rate of change? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.F.B.4; RICAS reporting category Functions
  • Which equation defines a linear function? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.F.A.3; RICAS reporting category Functions
  • Which set of ordered pairs is NOT a function? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.F.A.1; RICAS reporting category Functions

Geometry 6

  • A cylinder has a radius of 2 meters and a height of 5 meters. What is its volume in cubic meters? Use 3.14 for π. Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.G.C.9; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • A right triangle has legs of 9 centimeters and 12 centimeters. How many centimeters long is its hypotenuse? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.G.B.7; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • Point P(3, −2) is reflected across the x-axis. What are the coordinates of its image? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.G.A.3; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • Triangle ABC is dilated by a scale factor of 3 with the origin as the center. Point A is at (2, 5). Where is its image? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.G.A.3; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • Two angles of a triangle measure 48° and 67°. What is the measure of the third angle? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.G.A.5; RICAS reporting category Geometry
  • What is the distance between the points (1, 2) and (7, 10)? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.G.B.8; RICAS reporting category Geometry

Statistics and Probability 2

  • A plant's height is modeled by h = 2.5w + 4, where h is the height in centimeters and w is the number of weeks. What does 2.5 stand for? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.SP.A.3; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability
  • On a scatter plot, the points fall close to a straight line that rises from left to right. What kind of association do the two variables have? Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), grade 8, standard 8.SP.A.1; RICAS reporting category Statistics and Probability

How this list was compiled: Outline: RICAS Grades 3-8 Mathematics Test Design Information (updated September 2019) of the Rhode Island Department of Education, https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Assessment/RICAS/RICAS%20G3-8%20Math%20Test%20Design%202019.pdf, and the grade 8 mathematics fact sheet, both linked from RICAS Assessments, https://ride.ri.gov/instruction-assessment/assessment/ricas-assessments, read 2026-10-07. Each question names the standard it practices in the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics (March 2021), https://ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Standards/Rhode%20Island%20Core%20Standards%20V2%204.9.21.pdf, read 2026-10-07. Each answer that is a number is arithmetic on the numbers in the question and was worked out a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a RICAS or MCAS test, a released item, a practice test of either state or another practice test.

How it works

Unofficial practice for the RICAS mathematics tests of grades 3 to 8, sorted by the reporting categories of Rhode Island's test design. No question comes from a real test. Not affiliated with the Rhode Island Department of Education.

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What each grade's test weighs most

The state's test design gives every reporting category a share of the points, and each grade's 20 questions keep those shares. Grade 3 leans on multiplication and division, grade 4 on fractions, grade 5 on place value and decimals. Grades 6 and 7 give the largest share to expressions and equations. In grade 8 the number system with expressions and equations takes 40 percent, and geometry 30.

How the answers are checked

Each question practices one standard of the Rhode Island Core Standards for Mathematics, named under the answer. Every numeric answer was worked out a second time. Wrong choices are common slips, such as giving the perimeter when the question asks for area.

  • Before you compute, say what the question asks for: the space inside a shape, or the distance around it.

Questions and answers

Is RICAS the same as MCAS?

The department's own test design document says Rhode Island gives the MCAS assessments and calls them RICAS. So the two share a design, and some of the state's practice resources carry the MCAS name.

Can you use a calculator on the RICAS math test?

Not in grades 3 to 6. In grades 7 and 8, session 1 allows no calculator and session 2 allows one. The testing platform supplies it, and the department's calculator policy lists the handheld kinds students may use instead.

How many questions are on the RICAS math test?

Forty questions count toward the score in every grade, spread over two sessions. A few field-test and equating questions are mixed in and do not count. Grade 3 is worth 48 points and grades 4 to 8 are worth 54.

Where are the official RICAS practice tests?

The state publishes practice tests and released items of its own; the department's RICAS page, linked in the box under the questions, leads to them. Nothing here comes from them: every question was written for this site from the standards.

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