Grade 4 math skills: all released 2024 NAEP item-map results
Compare the 11 released national grade 4 math questions across content areas and three assessment years. Find the underlying skills and related practice.
What this selection shows
The 11 released questions in this report span 2% to 87% receiving full credit in 2024. The lowest value belongs to “Determine and explain how to find numbers that have specific properties” at grade 4. This ranks only these released items by their full-credit rates; it does not establish the hardest math skill overall.
Compare each item with itself across years. Differences between items can reflect wording, scoring rules, response format, and mathematical demands. We do not average them into a topic proficiency score.
Grade 4 · Number properties and operations
1. Determine and explain how to find numbers that have specific properties
Extended constructed response · Calculator available: no · Item M3933CL
Percentage receiving full credit
2019
2%
2022
2%
2024
2%
0–100% scale · rounded published estimates
What to notice
Reasoning about numerical properties can demand a complete explanation. A low full-credit percentage does not tell us whether students could identify some valid examples or received partial credit. Practice by checking a proposed example and explaining why every condition holds.
2024 compared with 2022: No statistically significant change reported.
2024 compared with 2019: 1 percentage-point decrease reported.
Related practice is written by K12Worksheets. It is not the original NAEP question and has no national score benchmark.
Grade 4 · Algebra
2. Solve an inequality to determine the greatest value of a variable
Short constructed response · Calculator available: yes · Item M398601
Percentage receiving full credit
2019
21%
2022
19%
2024
19%
0–100% scale · rounded published estimates
What to notice
An inequality defines a set of possible values. Finding the greatest permitted value adds a boundary decision. Practice the difference between “less than” and “less than or equal to” using a number line.
2024 compared with 2022: No statistically significant change reported.
2024 compared with 2019: 2 percentage-point decrease reported.
Related practice is written by K12Worksheets. It is not the original NAEP question and has no national score benchmark.
Grade 4 · Geometry
3. Identify figure that is a polygon
Selected response · Calculator available: no · Item M230901
Percentage receiving full credit
2019
58%
2022
51%
2024
54%
0–100% scale · rounded published estimates
What to notice
Shape recognition depends on properties: closed boundary, straight sides, and how those sides meet. Rotate and resize examples so the decision depends on properties rather than a familiar picture.
2024 compared with 2022: 3 percentage-point increase reported.
2024 compared with 2019: 4 percentage-point decrease reported.
Related practice is written by K12Worksheets. It is not the original NAEP question and has no national score benchmark.
Grade 4 · Measurement
4. Solve a multi-part problem using area of a rectangle
Short constructed response · Calculator available: no · Item M221101
Percentage receiving full credit
2019
26%
2022
25%
2024
27%
0–100% scale · rounded published estimates
What to notice
A multi-part area task can require choosing dimensions, calculating, and explaining more than one result. Break a new problem into labeled regions and check whether each answer needs length or square units.
2024 compared with 2022: No statistically significant change reported.
2024 compared with 2019: No statistically significant change reported.
Multi-step stories require choosing an order of operations before computing. Write one expression for the entire situation and explain what each quantity represents.
2024 compared with 2022: 2 percentage-point increase reported.
2024 compared with 2019: No statistically significant change reported.
Related practice is written by K12Worksheets. It is not the original NAEP question and has no national score benchmark.
Grade 4 · Measurement
8. Solve a problem using unit conversions
Selected response · Calculator available: no · Item M338501
Percentage receiving full credit
2019
68%
2022
69%
2024
69%
0–100% scale · rounded published estimates
What to notice
Unit conversion preserves the amount while changing how it is counted. Write the unit relationship first and decide whether the numerical value should become larger or smaller.
2024 compared with 2022: No statistically significant change reported.
2024 compared with 2019: No statistically significant change reported.
The same digit has different values in different positions. Expanded form makes the contribution of each position visible and helps reveal missing zero placeholders.
2024 compared with 2022: No statistically significant change reported.
2024 compared with 2019: 3 percentage-point decrease reported.
Related practice is written by K12Worksheets. It is not the original NAEP question and has no national score benchmark.
Method and limitations
We transcribed the complete released national item-map dataset from the official 2024 mathematics report: 11 questions at grade 4 and 10 at grade 8. This page filters that set by grade. No question was selected because its result looked unusually high or low.
Full credit is not the same as partial credit. NAEP Proficient is also not equivalent to grade-level proficiency. The released questions do not represent every skill taught in either grade, and results cannot diagnose an individual learner.
Official percentage-point changes are based on unrounded estimates, so they can differ from subtracting the displayed percentages. We retain the source’s significance labels and do not infer why a change occurred.