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NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 8: Understand Place Value
Discipline
Mathematics
Grades
4, 5
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Students must determine how many millions make a billion. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grade 8 in the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP). The URL link (above) takes the user directly to the NAEP test item, with access to performance data by various subgroups of students, a scoring key, and discussion of the content on which the item is based. The NAEP website allows users to build their own printable database of test items by clicking on Add Question in the upper right hand corner of the screen. NAEP Reference Number: 1992-8M15 No. 10. (sw)


Ohio Mathematics Academic Content Standards (2001)
Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard
Benchmarks (3–4)
A.
Use place value structure of the base-ten number system to read, write, represent and compare whole numbers and decimals.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 4)
14.
Demonstrate fluency in adding and subtracting whole numbers and in multiplying and dividing whole numbers by 1- and 2-digit numbers and multiples of ten.
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Number and Operations Standard
Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems
Expectations (3–5)
understand the place-value structure of the base-ten number system and be able to represent and compare whole numbers and decimals;
Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates
Expectations (3–5)
understand the place-value structure of the base-ten number system and be able to represent and compare whole numbers and decimals;
develop fluency in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers;