Free · Grades 4–5 · 3 sections · 16 questions

Fractions unit test

Adding, converting, multiplying and dividing — the whole unit on one paper.

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Fractions unit test — printable test paper

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What's on this test

The unit has three moves in it, taught in roughly this order: adding and subtracting once the denominators already match, then reading a fraction as its decimal, then multiplying and dividing. They look related and are not. Adding keeps the denominator; multiplying changes it; dividing flips the second fraction and then multiplies. A child who is fluent in section 1 and stuck in section 3 has not forgotten fractions — they have met a rule that contradicts the one they just learned.

How the paper is put together

That is why the sections sit on one paper. A page of twenty identical questions shows whether a procedure stuck; a mixed page shows whether a child can tell which procedure the question is asking for, and that is the thing a unit is finished on.