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NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 8: Extend a pattern involving perfect squares
Discipline
Mathematics
Grades
6, 7, 8
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Students must extend a numerical pattern involving perfect squares. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grade8 in the 2005 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: 2005-8M3, No. 12. (sw)


Ohio Mathematics Academic Content Standards (2001)
Patterns, Functions and Algebra Standard
Benchmarks (5–7)
A.
Describe, extend and determine the rule for patterns and relationships occurring in numeric patterns, computation, geometry, graphs and other applications.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 6)
2.
Use words and symbols to describe numerical and geometric patterns, rules and functions.
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Algebra Standard
Understand patterns, relations, and functions
Expectations (6–8)
represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, words, and, when possible, symbolic rules;