PARCC Grades 6-8 Expressions and Equations. Practice it free.

Students work with expressions, equations, and inequalities. This Grades 6-8 reporting domain maps to 8 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grades 6-88 mapped skills
What the test measures

Expressions and Equations skills

  1. Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions

  2. Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities

  3. Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M) / PARCC Model Content Frameworks — national

How the PARCC reports it

PARCC was a multistate assessment system built around the Common Core-era PARCC mathematics model content frameworks rather than a separate proprietary standards set. Its math structure is organized by grade/course and aligned to CCSS-M content categories and model content frameworks.

Blueprint & weighting

No single published PARCC weighting table was located in the accessible sources used here.

Practice by skill

Topics mapped to this domain

Combining like terms

Grade 610 questions

Combining like terms and distributing

Grade 668 questions

Evaluating powers

Grade 636 questions

Write products as powers

Grade 624 questions

Interpreting at least and at most

Grade 710 questions

Order of operations

Grade 6119 questions

Perfect squares and cubes

Grade 660 questions

Solving one- and two-step linear equations

Grade 7129 questions
Try it now

8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

Which expression is equivalent to 3+w+83 + w + 8?

The constants 33 and 88 are like terms: 3+8=113 + 8 = 11. The term ww stays the same, so the expression is equivalent to w+11.w + 11\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

Simplify: 4(7x+2)4(7x + 2).

Distribute 4: 4⋅7x+4⋅2=28x+84 \cdot 7x + 4 \cdot 2 = 28x + 8.

Practice playeasy

What is 33?3^{3}\textsf{?}

33=3⋅3⋅3=27.3^{3} = 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 = 27\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

Write 5×5×5×5×55 \times 5 \times 5 \times 5 \times 5 using an exponent.

The base 55 appears 55 times as a factor, so 5×5×5×5×5=555 \times 5 \times 5 \times 5 \times 5 = 5^{5}.

Practice playeasy

A band competition allows an instrument case's length, width, and height to total at most 62.062.0 inches. A case measures 65.465.4 inches in total. What is the minimum decrease needed in that total, in inches, so that the case meets the rule?

The total must be at most 62.062.0 inches. The minimum decrease is 65.4−62.0=3.4.65.4 - 62.0 = 3.4\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

Evaluate: 9+8⋅7−49 + 8 \cdot 7 - 4.

Multiply first: 8⋅7=568 \cdot 7 = 56. Then 9+56−4=619 + 56 - 4 = 61.

Practice playeasy

Evaluate 131^3.

 13=1⋅1⋅1=1\,1^3 = 1 \cdot 1 \cdot 1 = 1.

Practice playeasy

Solve for kk: k+3=5k + 3 = 5.

Isolate kk: k=2k = 2.

Keep practicing

Turn expressions and equations into game time.

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Related Common Core standards
6.EE.A.17.EE.B.4
The same skills on other tests
AK STARCMASDC CAPEGeorgia Milestones
Source and test overview
All PARCC prepOfficial test source
Reporting categories

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