MAST Grade 6 Rational Numbers and Absolute Value Practice

What the test measures

Rational Numbers and Absolute Value skills

Represent positive and negative values in context and represent rational numbers as points on a number line.
Understand and interpret absolute value and compare and order rational numbers.
Standards: 6.NS.5, 6.NS.6, 6.NS.6.a, 6.NS.6.c, 6.NS.7, 6.NS.7.a, 6.NS.7.b, 6.NS.7.c, 6.NS.7.d

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.

Official sources

Montana OPI MontCAS
Montana OPI - MasteryGuide Mathematics Assessment Specifications and Blueprints
Montana OPI - Montana MAST Math Testlets

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Absolute value

Grade 660 questions

Rational number line locations (ACT)

Grade 610 questions

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Practice playeasy

What is $|8|$ ?

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

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.

Practice playeasy

What is $|0|$ ?

$0$ is its own distance from $0$ , so $|0| = 0$ .

Practice playeasy

Which of the following values lies strictly between $-\dfrac{19}{4}$ and $\dfrac{11}{2}$ on the real number line?

The interval is open: $-\dfrac{19}{4} = -4.75$ and $\dfrac{11}{2} = 5.5$ , so values must satisfy $-4.75 < x < 5.5$ . Check each choice: $-5 < -4.75$ (outside), $-4$ is between the bounds, $\dfrac{11}{2}$ equals the upper endpoint (not strict), and $-\dfrac{19}{4}$ equals the lower endpoint (not strict).

Practice playeasy

What is $|5 - 4|$ ?

First compute the difference: $5 - 4 = 1$ . Then take the absolute value: $|1| = 1$ .

Practice playeasy

Which value is greatest on the real number line?

Compare positions: $\dfrac{9}{5} = 1.8$ , $-\dfrac{2}{3} \approx -0.67$ , $\dfrac{5}{8} = 0.625$ , and $-\dfrac{7}{12} \approx -0.58$ . The greatest is $\dfrac{9}{5}$ .