Montana PK-12 Mathematics Content Standards / Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M)-aligned Montana standards — Montana
Students use the Pythagorean Theorem to find side lengths and distance in the coordinate plane. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 5 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
Montana PK-12 Mathematics Content Standards / Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M)-aligned Montana standards — Montana
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.
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.
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Montana OPI - Montana MAST Math Testlets
What is the length of the vertical segment from to ?
Both points have , so the length is .
A right triangle has leg lengths ft and ft. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
The legs are and . By the Pythagorean theorem, , so the hypotenuse is .
In a right triangle, the legs have lengths and . What is the length of the hypotenuse?
, so the hypotenuse is
A kite string is meters long and is staked meters from a point on the ground directly below the kite. How high is the kite?
The string is the hypotenuse: , so the height is meters.
A rectangle has length centimeters and area square centimeters. What is the length of a diagonal of the rectangle, in centimeters?
Area , so and . The diagonal is the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs and :
What is the distance from to ?
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If a right triangle has a hypotenuse of yards and one leg of yards, what is the other leg?
Let the missing leg be . Then , so and .
A right triangle has legs and . What is the hypotenuse?
, so the hypotenuse is
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