What it is
Eighth grade math proficiency is an indicator of whether a student will have access to or be prepared for higher-level math in high school.
Missouri monitors student progress in math through the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP), which tests all third through eighth graders each year on how well they’ve mastered concepts and skills.
Based on how well students perform on the assessment determines their performance level. Eighth graders who score proficient or advanced are considered to have mastered concepts such as number sense and operations; expressions, equations, and inequalities; functions; geometry and measurement; and data, analysis, and statistics.
They’ve also mastered skills such as working with radicals and integer exponents, understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem, and using functions to model relationships between quantities, among others.
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