A bag holds 6 green marbles and nothing else. One marble is drawn. What is the probability that it is purple?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.2.1
A bar graph with a scale that counts by 4 shows fruit picked: apples 20, pears 12 and plums 8. Half of all the fruit goes into pies. How many pieces go into pies?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.2
A circle graph shows the pets of 40 students. Dogs fill one half of the circle, cats fill one fourth and fish fill one fourth. How many students have a cat?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.3
A dot plot shows the water 5 hikers drank: three dots above 1/2 liter and two dots above 3/4 liter. How much water did the hikers drink in all?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.2
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Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning, continued
A line graph shows the height of a plant: 2 cm in week 1, 4 cm in week 2, 6 cm in week 3 and 8 cm in week 4. If the pattern continues, how tall will the plant be in week 6?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.3
A spinner has 10 equal sections: 3 striped, 5 dotted and 2 plain. What is the probability that it lands on a striped section?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.2.1
A table lists books read: Ava 12, Ben 9, Cal 15 and Dee 8. How many more books did Ava and Cal read together than Ben and Dee together?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.2
Five puppies weigh 3.2, 4.5, 3.2, 5.1 and 4.0 pounds. What is the mode of the weights?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.1
Rain fell on five days: 1/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 and 1 1/4 inches. What is the range of the amounts?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.DPSR.1.1
Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning 12
1 foot = 12 inches. A board is 54 inches long. How long is the board in feet?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.2.1
1 kilogram = 1,000 grams. A melon has a mass of 2,350 grams. What is its mass in kilograms?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.2.1
1 pint = 2 cups. A pitcher holds 9 pints of tea. How many cups of tea does it hold?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.2.1
A crate is packed with unit cubes. Each layer has 6 rows of 7 cubes, and there are 4 layers. What is the volume of the crate?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.1.2
A function table has the input 3 and the output 7. How do you plot this pair on the coordinate plane?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.3.1
A right rectangular prism is 6 cm long, 2 cm wide and 4 cm high. How many 1-centimeter cubes fill it with no gaps?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.1.2
A ruler is marked in eighths of an inch. The end of a nail lines up with the third mark after the 2-inch mark. How long is the nail?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.2.2
An L-shaped floor can be split into a rectangle 7 feet by 5 feet and a rectangle 4 feet by 3 feet. What is the area of the floor?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.1.1
Going around an L-shaped figure, the six sides measure 9, 3, 5, 4, 4 and 7 units. What is the perimeter of the figure?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.1.1
On a coordinate plane, what are the coordinates of the origin?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.3.1
On a graph, x is the number of hours Sam works and y is the number of dollars he has earned. What does the point (4, 20) mean?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.3.2
On a map grid, the fire station is at (6, 1) and the school is at (6, 8). Each unit is 1 block. How far apart are they?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.MGSR.3.2
Numerical Reasoning 10
A lizard is 16.372 centimeters long. What is that length rounded to the nearest tenth of a centimeter?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.3
A recipe needs 2 1/4 cups of flour and 2 3/10 cups of sugar. Which amount is greater?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.2.1
In 0.6, the digit 6 is worth six tenths. If the 6 moves two places to the right, what is it worth?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.2
In 9.099, how does the value of the 9 in the hundredths place compare with the value of the 9 in the thousandths place?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.2
What is 0.68 × 10³?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.4
What is 300 + 5 + 0.6 + 0.008 in standard form?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.1
What is 409 ÷ 10²?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.4
What is 508.614 rounded to the nearest whole number?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.3
Which shows "forty-two and seven hundredths" in standard form?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.1.1
Which statement about these fractions and mixed numbers is true?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.NR.2.1
Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning 19
250 students ride buses that each seat 32 students. What is the fewest buses needed?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.2
A bag holds 5 pounds of birdseed. Each feeder takes 1/6 pound. How many feeders can be filled?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.3
A board is 5 1/2 feet long. A piece 2 2/3 feet long is cut off. How long is the board that is left?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.1
A camp buys 5 kits. Each kit has an $8 flashlight and a $7 compass. The cost in dollars is 5 × (8 + 7). What is the value of the expression?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.3.4
A farmer plants 53 rows of corn with 68 plants in each row. How many corn plants is that?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.1
A function table has the inputs 2, 5 and 9 and the outputs 7, 16 and 28. Which expression gives the output for an input of n?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.3.3
A golf coach buys 6 boxes of 12 golf balls, and the team loses 9 balls. Which expression shows how many balls are left?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.3.4
A pencil costs $0.45. What do 7 pencils cost?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.4
A press prints 215 flyers each minute. How many flyers does it print in 34 minutes?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.1
A ribbon is 10 yards long. Ivy uses 5/6 of the ribbon. How many yards does she use?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.2
One third of a pizza is shared equally by 5 people. What fraction of the whole pizza does each person get?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.3
Rosa pays for a $7.35 lunch with a $20 bill. How much change does she get?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.3
Six stickers cost $0.84 in all, and each sticker costs the same. What does one sticker cost?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.4
What is 4/5 × 5/8?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.2
What is 7/12 + 3/8?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.2.1
What is 27.4 + 8.69?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.3
What is 28/42 in simplest form?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.3.2
What is 2,774 ÷ 38?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.1.2
What is the least common denominator of 7/10 and 5/12?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 5, indicator 5.PAFR.3.1
Fifty grade 5 math questions for SC READY, South Carolina's state test, written for this site to the 2025 standards. Unofficial: nothing comes from a real test, and this site is not affiliated with the South Carolina Department of Education.
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What grade 5 SC READY math covers
Grade 5 is weighted toward computing. Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning takes 17 to 21 of the 50 items on the 2026-27 blueprint: two-digit multipliers and divisors, decimal sums, adding and multiplying fractions, dividing with unit fractions, and expressions with parentheses. Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning takes 11 to 14: composite figures, volume, unit conversion and, for the first time, the coordinate plane. Numerical Reasoning takes 9 to 11: decimals to thousandths and powers of 10. Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning takes 8 to 10.
One question or more for all 26 indicators
None of the 26 grade 5 indicators on the blueprint is skipped. Under each answer is its code in the 2025 standards, such as 5.PAFR.2.3. Conversion questions state the unit fact, as indicator 5.MGSR.2.1 describes.
No calculator section is listed for grades 3 to 5 in the state's format table, so do the long multiplication and division on paper.
Questions and answers
How many questions does SC READY math have in 5th grade?
Fifty count toward the score, one point each, by the 2026-27 blueprint; another 6 to 8 field test items may appear in spring. The 50 questions here are all multiple choice, though the real test mixes in other item types.
Is the 5th grade SC READY math test timed?
No. The state calls its times approximations for scheduling and lists about 105 minutes for mathematics in grades 3 to 5. Grade 5 math is given on one day, with one test ticket.
What SC READY math score does a 5th grader need?
There is no pass mark, only four levels on a scale score. For grade 5 math in 2026-27, Meets starts at 293 and Exceeds at 325; Approaches runs from 257 to 292, and anything from 100 to 256 is Does Not Meet.
What kinds of questions are on 5th grade SC READY math?
Four-option selected-response items, technology-enhanced items (drag and drop, drop-down, hot spot, matching) and keypad items where the student types a number or an expression. Graphing items, where students plot points or draw a line, appear in grades 4 and 5.
Do 5th graders take SC READY science?
No. The state lists SC READY science for grades 4 and 6. Fifth graders take mathematics and English language arts, which runs over three days: writing and two reading parts.