RICAS Grades 6-8 Geometry. Practice it free.

Students solve problems involving angle measure, similarity, area, volume, and geometric transformations. This Grades 6-8 reporting domain maps to 17 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

Grades 6-817 mapped skills
What the test measures

Geometry skills

  1. solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume

  2. understand congruence and similarity using transformations

  3. solve problems involving angle relationships and coordinate geometry

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards (CCSS-M), via the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics (2017) adopted/used for RICAS alignment — Rhode Island

How the RICAS reports it

RICAS mathematics in grades 3–8 is the Rhode Island-administered version of Massachusetts MCAS math, and RIDE states the Massachusetts framework is strongly aligned with Rhode Island’s Common Core-based mathematics standards. The released-item documents report results under the same framework domains used by the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics.

Blueprint & weighting

The official source reviewed here did not publish domain percentage weights in the pages/documents retrieved. The released-item documents do state that mathematics results are reported under five MCAS reporting categories identical to the framework domains.

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8 free questions · 0/0 correct

Practice playeasy

Two angles are supplementary. One measures 120°120°. What is the other?

180−120=60°180 - 120 = 60°.

Practice playeasy

A circle has a diameter of 2020 feet. What is the circumference, in feet, of the circle?

The circumference of a circle is C=πdC = \pi d. Substitute d=20d = 20: C=π(20)=20π.C = \pi(20) = 20\pi\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

Find the area of a trapezoid with bases b1=7b_1 = 7 and b2=10b_2 = 10 and height h=6h = 6.

Trapezoid area =12(b1+b2)⋅h=12(7+10)⋅6=12(17)⋅6=51= \dfrac{1}{2}(b_1 + b_2) \cdot h = \dfrac{1}{2}(7 + 10) \cdot 6 = \dfrac{1}{2}(17) \cdot 6 = 51.

Practice playeasy

A rhombus has diagonals of length 7 ft7\text{ ft} and 8 ft.8\text{ ft}\textsf{.} What is its area?

The area of a rhombus is half the product of the diagonals: 12⋅7⋅8=28 ft2.\dfrac{1}{2} \cdot 7 \cdot 8 = 28\text{ ft}^{2}\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

A circle has radius 44. Using π=3\pi = 3, what is its area?

A=πr2=3×16=48A = \pi r^2 = 3 \times 16 = 48.

Practice playhard

A rectangular prism has volume 160160 cubic inches and height 55 inches. The length is twice the width. What is the length, in inches?

V=ℓwhV = \ell w h and ℓ=2w\ell = 2w, so 160=(2w)(w)(5)=10w2160 = (2w)(w)(5) = 10w^2. Then w2=16w^2 = 16, so w=4w = 4 and ℓ=8 in.\ell = 8\text{ in}\textsf{.}

Practice playhard

A wedge-shaped door stopper is a closed right triangular prism. The triangular faces are right triangles with leg lengths 33 inches and 44 inches, and the stopper is 1010 inches wide. What is the total exterior surface area, in square inches, of the stopper?

The two triangular faces have total area 2×12(3)(4)=122 \times \dfrac{1}{2}(3)(4) = 12. The three rectangular faces have areas 3(10)=303(10) = 30, 4(10)=404(10) = 40, and 5(10)=505(10) = 50, where 55 is the hypotenuse. The total is 12+30+40+50=13212 + 30 + 40 + 50 = 132 square inches.

Practice playeasy

Find the volume of a cone with radius 33 and height 55. Use π=3\pi = 3.

V=13πr2h=13×3×9×5=45V = \dfrac{1}{3}\pi r^2 h = \dfrac{1}{3} \times 3 \times 9 \times 5 = 45.

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