Alaska Mathematics Standards — Alaska
AK STAR Grades 6-8 Number System. Practice it free.
Measures number-system understanding in middle school, including operations with rational numbers and the real-number system. This Grades 6-8 reporting domain maps to 6 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
What the test measuresStandards basis How the AK STAR reports it Blueprint & weighting Official sources
Number System skills
6.NS.1–6.NS.8
7.NS.1–7.NS.3
8.NS.1–8.NS.2
AK STAR is Alaska’s state summative assessment, built around Alaska’s own mathematics standards rather than a national consortium framework. Its math blueprint is organized into grade-level content strands/instructional areas and an adaptive growth component aligned to MAP Growth instructional areas.
The blueprint gives target item counts and point ranges by grade and strand, rather than fixed percentage weights. Grades 3-5 and 6-9 each include summative item counts plus additional growth items; grade 9 has no summative Geometry strand, with Geometry reported only through growth items.
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Compute .
is its own distance from , so .
What is ?
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What is ?
Result: .
lies between two consecutive integers. Enter the larger one.
, so is between and ; the larger is .
What is ?
Multiply across: .
What is the distance on the real number line from to ?
Distance from zero is absolute value: .
What is ?
First compute the difference: . Then take the absolute value: .
What is ?
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Turn number system into game time.
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