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.
Nevada SBAC Grade 8 math practice. Domain by domain.
Nevada SBAC Grade 8 math practice organized by the test's 1 official reporting domain. Together they connect 26 playable math skills to Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M).
Reporting categories
Nevada SBAC Grade 8 reporting domains
Test factsFramework Blueprint & weighting Official sources
How the Nevada SBAC structures Grade 8 math
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)
Practice by skill
Skills covered across these domains
Volume of prisms and cylinders
Y-intercept as a point
Irrational number approximations
Exponent rules
Evaluating exponential functions
Graphing linear equations
Inconsistent linear systems (ACT/SAT/PSAT 8/9/10)
Isosceles triangle angles
Linear Algebra Basics: Systems
Linear functions with an unknown constant
Modeling linear situations (ACT/SAT/PSAT 8/9/10)
Multi-step linear equations
Game plan
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Questions
Nevada SBAC Grade 8 math FAQ
What math does the Nevada SBAC cover in Grade 8?
Grade 8 math on the Nevada SBAC is reported across one official domain: Concepts and Procedures. Each domain page here maps that reporting category to playable practice skills.
What standards is the Nevada SBAC based on?
The Nevada Smarter Balanced Assessment is built on 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);
How is Grade 8 math weighted on the Nevada SBAC?
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 A…
How can students practice for the Nevada SBAC Grade 8 math test for free?
Every Nevada SBAC Grade 8 domain page includes free practice questions with worked answers — 8 sample questions across this domain — and each skill links to arcade games that drill it. No sign-up is needed to start.