Smarter Balanced grade 8 math practice test
A free practice set in the style of grade 8 math on the Smarter Balanced tests: 12 questions in the online formats state tests use, marked as soon as you finish. Nothing is stored.
Grade 8 practice set
12 questions, with no clock. A new set every time, marked when you finish, with the marks by Smarter Balanced’s categories.
Have paper and a pencil ready for working out.
What’s on grade 8 math
The Smarter Balanced tests report grade 8 math in 3 categories. The practice set covers each of them:
Claim 1: Concepts and Procedures
- Estimating square roots between whole numbers
- The rules of exponents
- Square roots and cube roots
- Scientific notation
- Slope from two points or a table
- Equations with variables on both sides
- Translations, reflections and rotations on the coordinate plane
- Angles in triangles and where parallel lines are crossed
- Volume of cylinders, cones and spheres
Claims 2 and 4: Problem Solving and Modeling and Data Analysis
- Systems of two linear equations
- Linear functions as models: rate of change and starting value
- Similar figures and dilations
- The Pythagorean theorem
- Two-way tables and relative frequencies
Claim 3: Communicating Reasoning
- Rational and irrational numbers
- What makes a relation a function
- Telling linear and nonlinear functions apart
- Scatter plots: association and lines of fit
- The Smarter Balanced tests check the Common Core State Standards (or each member's version of them).
- The real grade 8 test: About 35-40 questions on the full blueprint: Concepts and Procedures 17-20 (grades 3-5) or 16-20 (grades 6-8); Problem Solving with Modeling and Data Analysis 8-10; Communicating Reasoning 8-10 (those two together 18-20). One performance task of 4-6 items is included. The adjusted blueprint cuts the adaptive part by about half.
- Calculators: No calculator in grades 3-5. Grades 6-8 mix calculator and non-calculator items, given in separate segments.
How to help at home
Do one set, then talk
After a set, look at the ones they missed together. Ask how they got their answer before saying what the right one is.
Little and often
A short set a few times a week does more than a long session the week before.
Use real life
Prices at the store, recipes, distances and times on a trip: grade-level math is everywhere.
Keep it calm
The test checks how the year went. A good night’s sleep helps more than cramming.
Other grades
See Thena explain the ones they missed
With an account, Thena goes over every question your child gets wrong: she puts it back on her board, finds the slip and works it through out loud, then gives them one like it to do alone.
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