NM-MSSA Grade 8 Statistics & Probability. Practice it free.

Concepts & Procedures reporting category (grade 8). Statistics and Probability: patterns of association in bivariate data (scatter plots, two-way tables, lines of best fit). NM-MSSA core-point share: ~13-19%. This Grade 8 reporting domain maps to 2 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grade 8Statistics & Probability2 mapped skills
What the test measures

Statistics & Probability skills

  1. Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data

Standards basis

New Mexico Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (NMCCSS / 'NM STEM Ready! Math'; CCSS-M adopted 2010) — New Mexico

How the NM-MSSA reports it

NM-MSSA is New Mexico's statewide summative assessment for Grades 3-8 (mathematics and ELA), administered by Cognia for the New Mexico Public Education Department. It is not built on a national framework (SBAC/NAEP); its items are aligned to the New Mexico Common Core State Standards (NMCCSS) — the CCSS-M that New Mexico adopted in 2010 and re-branded 'NM STEM Ready! Math'. The official math Test Blueprint and the public-facing Mathematics Test Specifications expose a per-grade reporting-category structure whose Concepts & Procedures categories ARE the CCSS-M content domains (Operations & Algebraic Thinking, Number & Operations in Base Ten, etc.), with published point/percentage ranges. This coverage_map was enriched from those two primary documents (the bare resources page transcribed earlier exposed only resource links, not the content structure). Reporting categories are grouped exactly as the blueprint groups them: Grades 3/4/5, Grades 6/7, and Grade 8 (grade 8 replaces Ratios & Proportional Relationships with Functions, matching CCSS). Two mathematical-practices reporting categories (Problem Solving / Reasoning & Argument; Modeling / Structure & Repeated Reasoning) are reported across all grades and are the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice (process standards), carried here as a separate per-band domain.

Blueprint & weighting

Published per-grade core-point distributions (NM-MSSA Operational Test Blueprint, Mathematics Test Specifications, Cognia/NMPED 2024). Concepts & Procedures content domains as a percent of the per-grade Concepts & Procedures subtotal — Grade 3: Operations & Algebraic Thinking 32-39%, Number & Operations in Base Ten 8-15%, Number & Operations—Fractions 12-19%, Measurement & Data 24-31%, Geometry 4-11%. Grade 4: 18-25% / 18-25% / 30-37% / 10-17% / 4-11%. Grade 5: 8-15% / 22-29% / 22-29% / 22-29% / 6-13%. Grade 6: Ratios & Proportional Relationships 15-22%, The Number System 22-27%, Expressions & Equations 26-33%, Geometry 9-16%, Statistics & Probability 9-16%. Grade 7: 15-22% / 13-20% / 28-35% / 9-16% / 15-22%. Grade 8: Functions 16-23%, The Number System 5-12%, Expressions & Equations 28-34%, Geometry 18-25%, Statistics & Probability 13-19%. Mathematical Practices are scored independently (Problem Solving/Reasoning & Argument and Modeling/Structure & Repeated Reasoning each >=15% of core points per grade); a small fixed number of practice points from constructed-response rubrics contribute to the overall score. Depth of Knowledge: grades 3-6 DOK1 5-25% / DOK2 50-80% / DOK3 5-30%; grades 7-8 DOK1 0-20% / DOK2 50-80% / DOK3 5-30%.

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Practice playeasy

A trend line predicts Mia will spell 1818 words correctly in a spelling bee. She actually spells 2121 words correctly. What is the residual (actual minus predicted)?

Residual =2118=3= 21 - 18 = 3 words.

Practice playeasy

A two-way table has rows Bike/Scooter and columns Morning/Afternoon: Bike&Morning=11, Bike&Afternoon=7, Scooter&Morning=5. In all, 29 trips were recorded. How many trips are Scooter&Afternoon?

The three known cells sum to 11+7+5=2311+7+5=23, so the missing cell is 2923=629-23=6.

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A line of best fit for the number of lawns Jaden mows xx and his savings yy in dollars is y=15x+40y = 15x + 40. According to the line, how many dollars did Jaden have saved before mowing any lawns?

At x=0x = 0 lawns, y=40y = 40: the yy-intercept is the starting savings.

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A two-way table has rows Dog/Cat and columns Boys/Girls: Dog&Boys=10, Dog&Girls=6, Cat&Boys=5, Cat&Girls=9. How many were surveyed in total?

Add all cells: 10+6+5+9=3010+6+5+9=30.

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A trend line for hours studied xx and quiz score yy is y=4x+62y = 4x + 62. What score does the line predict for a student who studies 33 hours?

Substitute x=3x = 3: y=4(3)+62=12+62=74y = 4(3) + 62 = 12 + 62 = 74.

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A two-way table has rows Dog/Cat and columns Boys/Girls: Dog&Boys=10, Dog&Girls=6, Cat&Boys=5, Cat&Girls=9. How many chose Dog in total?

Row total for Dog: 10+6=1610+6=16.

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A trend line predicts that a bakery will sell 7575 bagels on Monday. The bakery actually sells 7979 bagels. What is the residual (actual value minus predicted value)?

Residual == actual - predicted =7975=4= 79 - 75 = 4.

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A two-way table has rows Dog/Cat and columns Boys/Girls: Dog&Boys=10, Dog&Girls=6, Cat&Boys=5, Cat&Girls=9. What fraction of all surveyed were Dog and Boys? Simplify.

1030=13\dfrac{10}{30} = \dfrac{1}{3}.

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