FAST Math Grade 4 case studies
FAST Math Grade 4 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The FAST Mathematics Grade 4 assessment is Florida's statewide progress-monitoring test in mathematics for fourth-grade students, administered through the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) system. It is taken by students in Florida public schools, including charter schools, and by students in certain private or home-education settings who participate under state or district arrangements. The FAST Math Grade 4 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,794 words.
1Supply Drive Packing: Remainders, Checks, and Reasonable Estimates
The fourth-grade team at Pine Ridge Elementary has 1,248 pencils and 875 erasers donated for a supply drive. Pencils go into boxes of 24; erasers go into bags of 15.
556 words, about 3 min2Garden Bed Length Cards: Ordering and Adding Tenths and Hundredths
The fourth graders are marking four planting beds along a 1-meter strip and labeling each bed with a length card. The cards read 0.4 m, 0.45 m, 2/5 m, and 0.04 m.
549 words, about 3 min3Family Night Tables: Choosing and Using a Rule
The cafeteria is setting up square tables for family night. Each table seats 6, and one extra chair is placed at each end of the whole row, so a row of 1 table seats 8, a row of 2 tables seats 14, and a row of 3 tables seats 20.
564 words, about 3 min4Reading-Time Line Plot: Average, Threshold, and Misread Graphs
Each of the 20 students in Room 12 logged Tuesday reading time to the nearest quarter hour, and the class built a line plot: 2 students read 1/2 hour, 4 read 3/4 hour, 6 read 1 hour, 5 read 1 1/4 hours, and 3 read 1 1/2 hours. The principal has promised a celebration if the class average is at least 1 hour per student and if more than half the class read at least 1 hour.
538 words, about 3 min5Rabbit Pen Design: Perimeter, Area, Right Angles, and Shape Names
The fourth grade has 24 meters of fencing to enclose a rectangular rabbit pen in the school garden, and all sides must be whole meters. Three groups stake out plans: 10 m by 2 m, 8 m by 4 m, and 6 m by 6 m, each arguing that its pen gives the rabbits the most room.
587 words, about 3 min