MAST Grade 6 Algebraic Expressions and Exponents. Practice it free.

Students read, write, and evaluate expressions with numbers, variables, and exponents. This Grade 6 reporting domain maps to 4 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 6Testlet 64 mapped skills
What the test measures

Algebraic Expressions and Exponents skills

  1. Read and write expressions using numbers and variables.

  2. Evaluate expressions including exponents and variables.

  3. Standards: 6.EE.1, 6.EE.2, 6.EE.2.a, 6.EE.2.b, 6.EE.2.c

Standards basis

Montana PK-12 Mathematics Content Standards / Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M)-aligned Montana standards — Montana

How the MAST reports it

Montana’s MAST is a state-specific through-year assessment built by New Meridian and aligned to Montana’s academic content standards, not a Smarter Balanced-style claims/targets framework. The math blueprints organize content into grade-level strands/testlets that map directly to CCSS-M-derived Montana standards.

Blueprint & weighting

The blueprint publishes a through-year design of 12 strands/testlets per grade, with 1 strand per testlet, 2 reporting attributes per strand, and 9–13 items per testlet. It also specifies approximate item-type and DOK distributions, but does not publish percentage weighting by domain in the captured blueprint text.

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Evaluating powers

Grade 636 questions

Write products as powers

Grade 624 questions

Order of operations

Grade 6119 questions

Perfect squares and cubes

Grade 660 questions
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8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

What is 24?2^{4}\textsf{?}

24=2⋅2⋅2⋅2=16.2^{4} = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 = 16\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

Write 4×4×44 \times 4 \times 4 using an exponent.

The base 44 appears 33 times as a factor, so 4×4×4=434 \times 4 \times 4 = 4^{3}.

Practice playeasy

Evaluate: 6+4⋅5−56 + 4 \cdot 5 - 5.

Multiply first: 4⋅5=204 \cdot 5 = 20. Then 6+20−5=216 + 20 - 5 = 21.

Practice playeasy

Compute 222^2.

 22=2⋅2=4\,2^2 = 2 \cdot 2 = 4.

Practice playeasy

What is 25?2^{5}\textsf{?}

25=2⋅2⋅2⋅2⋅2=32.2^{5} = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2 = 32\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

Write 7×7×7×77 \times 7 \times 7 \times 7 using an exponent.

The base 77 appears 44 times as a factor, so 7×7×7×7=747 \times 7 \times 7 \times 7 = 7^{4}.

Practice playeasy

Evaluate: 9+5⋅4−49 + 5 \cdot 4 - 4.

Multiply first: 5⋅4=205 \cdot 4 = 20. Then 9+20−4=259 + 20 - 4 = 25.

Practice playeasy

Evaluate 131^3.

 13=1⋅1⋅1=1\,1^3 = 1 \cdot 1 \cdot 1 = 1.

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Related Common Core standards
6.EE.A.1
Source and test overview
All MAST prepOfficial test source
Reporting categories

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