What's on the MCAP Mathematics tests?
Major, Supporting & Additional Content • MCAP Grades 6, 7, & 8
Key
Major Content - Topics that receive the most concentration/emphasis during instruction.
Supporting & Additional Content: Topics that make close connections to major content (supporting), and those which tend to stand more alone (additional).
Major Content - Topics that receive the most concentration/emphasis during instruction.
Supporting & Additional Content: Topics that make close connections to major content (supporting), and those which tend to stand more alone (additional).
Mathematics 6
Major Content: 6.RP.A - Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems. Source: "Understanding Ratios," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
Source: "Finding Equivalent Ratios," GreatSchools (Oct., 8, 2015)
Source: "Solving Word Problems with Ratios," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
6.NS.A - Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
6.NS.C - Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers. 6.EE.A - Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions. 6.EE.B - Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities. 6.EE.C - Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables. Supporting & Additional Content: 6.NS.B - Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples. 6.G.A - Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume. 6.SP.A - Develop understanding of statistical variability. 6.SP.B - Summarize and describe distributions. |
Mathematics 7
Major Content: 7.RP.A - Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. 7.NS.A - Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers. Source: "Working with Rational Numbers," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
Source: "Solving Word Problems with Rational Numbers," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
Source: "Understanding Negative Numbers," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
7.EE.A - Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
7.EE.B - Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations. Supporting & Additional Content: 7.G.A - Draw, construct and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them. 7.G.B - Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area and volume. 7.SP.A - Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population. 7.SP.B - Draw informal comparative inferences about two populations. 7.SP.C - Investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models. |
Mathematics 8
Major Content: 8.EE.A - Work with radicals and integer exponents. 8.EE.B - Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines and linear equations. 8.EE.C - Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations. Source: "Solving a System of Linear Equations," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
Source: "Understanding the Solution of a System of Equations," GreatSchools (Oct. 8, 2015)
Source: "Solving Word Problems with Linear Equations," Great Schools (Oct. 8, 2015)
8.F.A - Define, evaluate, and compare functions.
8.F.B - Use functions to model relationships between quantities. 8.G.A - Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies or geometry software. 8.G.B - Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem. Supporting & Additional Content: 8.NS.A - Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers. 8.G.C - Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones and spheres. 8.SP.A - Investigate patterns in bivariate data. |