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NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 8: Solve a Problem Involving Parentheses
Discipline
Mathematics
Grades
5, 6, 7
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Students must evaluate an expression involving parentheses and several whole-number operations. They have the option of using a calculator. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grade 8 in the 1990 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: 1990-8M9, No. 1. (sw)


Ohio Mathematics Academic Content Standards (2001)
Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard
Benchmarks (5–7)
E.
Use order of operations, including use of parenthesis and exponents to solve multi-step problems, and verify and interpret the results.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 5)
9.
Use order of operations, including use of parentheses, to simplify numerical expressions.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 6)
6.
Use the order of operations, including the use of exponents, decimals and rational numbers, to simplify numerical expressions.
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Number and Operations Standard
Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another
Expectations (3–5)
understand and use properties of operations, such as the distributivity of multiplication over addition.
Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates
Expectations (3–5)
understand and use properties of operations, such as the distributivity of multiplication over addition.
select appropriate methods and tools for computing with whole numbers from among mental computation, estimation, calculators, and paper and pencil according to the context and nature of the computation and use the selected method or tools.