ISIP Math Grades 6-8 Number System Practice

What the test measures

Number System skills

Understand properties of positive and negative numbers, rational and irrational numbers, and integers
Apply number properties to perform operations

Standards basis

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) domains and Curriculum Focal Points; Common Core State Standards Initiative; state standards from California, Florida, New York, Texas, and Virginia; Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Personal Financial Literacy — national

How the ISIP Math reports it

ISIP Math is an Istation adaptive assessment built on a blended content framework rather than a single external testing consortium. Its technical report says the item bank draws from NCTM domains, Common Core State Standards, and multiple state standards, with Texas TEKS specifically governing personal financial literacy. The technical report also enumerates an NCTM-derived list of reasoning domains (number sense, operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis, plus probability/statistics, ratios and proportional relationships, and PFL); the operational reporting domains students are scored on, however, are the grade-banded set published on Istation's 'Math Domains and Skills' help page and reproduced in this coverage_map.

Blueprint & weighting

Istation publishes no per-domain item-percentage blueprint for ISIP Math; it is a computer-adaptive assessment whose item selection is driven by student ability rather than a fixed-form domain distribution.

Official sources

Istation ISIP Math Technical Report
Istation ISIP Math Help Page
Istation Math Domains and Skills (help center)

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Practice playeasy

What is $-5 + 8$ ?

Result: $3$ .

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What is $|8|$ ?

The absolute value of a non-negative number is itself: $|8| = 8$ .

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What is $6.07 - 4.71$ ?

$6.07 - 4.71 = 1.36$ .

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$\sqrt{40}$ is between two consecutive integers. Enter the smaller one.

$6^2 = 36 < 40 < 49 = 7^2$ , so $\sqrt{40}$ is between $6$ and $7$ ; the smaller is $6$ .

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What is $\dfrac{3}{9} \div \dfrac{5}{8}$ ?

Multiply by the reciprocal: $\dfrac{3}{9} \times \dfrac{8}{5} = \dfrac{24}{45} = \dfrac{8}{15}$ .

Practice playhard

How many integers satisfy $-\dfrac{11}{2} < x \leq 4$ ?

$-\dfrac{11}{2} = -5.5$ , so integers greater than $-5.5$ start at $-5$ ; the closed upper bound includes $4$ . Integers: $-5, -4, \ldots, 0, \ldots, 4$ ; $0$ is an integer and must be counted. Total: $4 - (-5) + 1 = 10$ ; the $+1$ counts both $-5$ and $4$ inclusive.