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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target A AssessmentSmarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target A Assessment
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CCSS Math Activities
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Grade
8th
Subjects
Math
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Assessments
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
15 mins
Number of Slides
19
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Skills Practice
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Internet Access
Year
2015
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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target A

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Take an irrational approach to numbers with a Smarter Balanced assessment that covers the introduction of irrational numbers. The nine items cover identifying irrational numbers, approximating them with rational numbers, and converting repeating decimals to fractions.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

irrational numbers, rational numbers, converting decimals to fractions, square roots, values, number lines

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the questions as a pre/post assessment
  • Create warm-ups from the items

Classroom Considerations

  • The class should have some experience with rational and irrational numbers
  • Part of the Gr. 8 Claim 1 Item Slide Shows series

Pros

  • Provides a range of item difficulty for the concepts
  • Includes an answer key

Cons

  • Unable to interact with the items as intended

Common Core

8.NS.A.1 8.NS.A.2

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