4th grade math test: a free 10-question quick check
This free math test for 4th graders has ten questions from across the year. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes. It is a quick check, not a full assessment.
In this quick check, every child gets the same ten questions, which represent a selection of the most relevant ones for 4th grade. Unlike the full Level Up assessment, this check does not adapt to a child’s answers. The result shows which questions your child missed, but it cannot identify foundational knowledge gaps. For the full picture, the Level Up assessment adapts to each answer and finds the earliest skill that is missing. It is included in the free trial.
10 questions, about 10 to 15 minutes. Skipping is fine. Nothing is saved.
Print it instead
The same ten questions as a PDF, with a separate answer key.
What the questions cover
The ten questions sample 4th grade: place value and expanded form, multiplying in a word problem, equivalent fractions, using 1/2 to compare two fractions, "times as many" comparisons, telling a line segment from a line or a ray, finding obtuse angles in shapes and choosing a unit of length. Six ask your child to check someone else’s work, and two ask your child to type an answer.
The whole year covers these areas:
Fractions and decimals
The center of 4th grade. Fractions stop being pictures of pizza and become numbers with a size and a place on the number line. Tenths and hundredths are written as decimals for the first time.
Place value and multi-digit arithmetic
Numbers grow to a million, and multiplying and dividing grow into the multi-digit methods that later years depend on. This is the one area of 4th grade with a speed goal.
Multiplication, division and word problems
The four operations are put to work on real problems that take more than one step, including problems where the leftover from a division has to mean something.
Measurement, area and data
Your child chooses and converts units, uses area and perimeter in real problems and reads line plots marked in fractions of a unit.
Angles
Angles are measured in degrees for the first time. This topic has no direct 3rd grade version, so a struggle here is usually not a gap from last year.
Shapes, symmetry and patterns
Your child sorts shapes by their properties instead of by how they look, and works with factors, prime numbers and number patterns. This is the smallest share of the year.
Every topic of the year, explained for parents, is on the 4th grade math page.
What you see at the end
The score, then every question with your child’s answer, the correct answer and a worked solution. A short message explains what a similar score usually means for 4th graders on our full assessment. Treat it as an indication: ten fixed questions cannot measure where a child stands.
Common questions
What math should a 4th grader know?
By the end of 4th grade: adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers quickly and accurately; multiplying and dividing multi-digit numbers; equivalent fractions, comparing fractions and adding fractions with the same denominator; tenths and hundredths as decimals; and measuring angles. The 4th grade math page explains each topic for parents.
Is this 4th grade math test the same for every child?
Yes. Every child gets the same ten questions, whatever the earlier answers were. That keeps it short, but it can show only which questions were missed, not why.
Can I print the 4th grade math test?
Yes. The same ten questions come as a PDF, with a separate answer key that has the worked solutions.
What if my child misses the fraction questions?
Check the number line first. A child who cannot place 3/4 between 0 and 1 is probably still reading a fraction as two separate numbers, and equivalent fractions and comparing will not make sense yet. The one-minute check on the 4th grade math page tests it with a single question.