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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target I AssessmentSmarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target I Assessment
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CCSS Math Activities
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Grade
8th
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Math
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Duration
15 mins
Number of Slides
11
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Skills Practice
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Year
2015
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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 8th Grade Math – Target I

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A slideshow covering the Smarter Balanced Target I on solving problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres contains five sample items. Items range from finding the volume of a figure to finding the altitude of a cone given the radius and volume. Target I is one of 10 targets in the series.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

calculating cylinder volume, volume, volume formulas, volume of cones, volume of cylinders, volume of spheres

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide a value for the class to use for pi
  • Create warm-ups using the items as a guide

Classroom Considerations

  • The title slide has the incorrect target letter
  • Resource is part of the larger Gr. 8 Claim 1 Item Slide Shows playlist

Pros

  • Includes an answer key for easier assessment
  • Provides a description of acceptable answers

Cons

  • None

Common Core

8.G.C.9

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