Standard #: MA.5.A.1.4 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: MC , SR , GR item(s)
Also assesses MA.5.A.1.2 Estimate quotients or calculate them mentally depending on the context and numbers involved.

Also assesses MA.5.A.1.3 Interpret solutions to division situations including those with remainders depending on the context of the problem.


Clarification :
Students will solve real-world division problems and check for reasonableness of results. 
Students will interpret solutions to division situations, including those with remainders, depending on the context of the problem. 
Quotients may include fractions or decimals. 
Students may use estimation strategies in problems involving division and check for reasonableness of results. 
Students may use the standard algorithm to solve real-world division problems.
Content Limits :
Divisors may have up to two digits and dividends may have up to four digits. 
 
Dividends may have up to four digits representing dollars and may include two zeroes representing cents (e.g., $372.00 24). 


Decimals in the context of money may be used only for the dividend or quotient. 


Items may require the use of two operations to solve the problem if at least one operation is division.
 


Stimulus Attributes :
MC and GR items may be set in either a real-world or mathematical context.

Sample Test Items (2)