Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) — Nevada
Students can explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency. Content is drawn from the Grade 6 clusters listed as targets below, with a much greater proportion from clusters the blueprint designates as priority (major) clusters. This Grade 6 reporting domain maps to 22 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) — Nevada
Nevada administers the consortium Smarter Balanced mathematics summative assessment in grades 3-8 (Nevada Department of Education, Office of Assessments); grade 11 students take the ACT as Nevada's college and career readiness assessment, so the state has no high-school Smarter Balanced administration. The test uses the consortium's shared structure: Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) publishes per-grade assessment targets that are verbatim CCSS-M cluster headings; Claims 2-4 are cross-cutting process claims whose targets are constant across grades and draw on the same grade-level content. On score reports, Claims 2 and 4 are combined into a single reporting category, so three claim scores accompany the overall math score.
Content Specifications (Reporting Categories section): the total mathematics score is a weighted composite of the four claims — Claim 1 (Concepts and Procedures) contributes roughly 50%, Claim 3 (Communicating Reasoning) roughly 25%, and combined Claims 2 and 4 (Problem Solving / Modeling and Data Analysis) about 25%. The summative blueprint (as of 2018-19) publishes item counts per test event rather than percentages: Claim 1 is 17-20 items in grades 3-5 and 16-20 in grades 6-8; the Claim 2/4 and Claim 3 reporting categories are 8-10 items each, totaling 18-20 across the two.
Nevada Department of Education — Grades 3-8: Smarter Balanced Assessments
Nevada Department of Education — Office of Assessments (grade 11: ACT)
Smarter Balanced Mathematics Content Specifications (July 2015)
Find the area of a trapezoid with bases and and height .
Trapezoid area .
What is ?
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What is ?
Multiply across: .
What is ?
Absolute value gives the non-negative distance from , so .
A class answered the statistical question "How many pages did you read this week?" The answers were . How many students were interviewed?
Each answer in the list is one student. Count every value, including repeats: there are answers, so students were interviewed.
A student is writing questions about trees. Which of these is a statistical question?
A statistical question anticipates variability: many people or things can give different answers. "How tall are the trees in the park?" asks about many trees, so the heights can differ. It is a statistical question.
On the real number line, how many integers are strictly between and ?
Convert: and . Integers with are . Count with : subtracting endpoints gives the gap between them; the counts both and inclusive.
At a livestock auction, a calf is listed at stones. What is the calf's weight in pounds? ( stone pounds)
Use a conversion factor with pounds in the numerator so stones cancel: .
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