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ODE Assessment Item, Grade 8: Sale Price of a Piano
Discipline
Mathematics
Grade
8
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Students must determine when a decreasing sale price on a piano reaches a certain value. This short-answer question is a sample item used in the 2006 Ohio Grade 8 Achievement Test (see Overview of Ohio's Assessment System). The URL link (above) takes the user directly to the test item (PDF), with access to performance data, complexity level of the item, a complete solution of the problem, and a scoring rubric. This OAT item is also available in Microsoft® Word. The Ohio Department of Education Instructional Management System website allows visitors to search for test items by subject and grade band and build a printable database of questions using the Add to Your Backpack function. ODE Reference Information: 2006 Ohio Grade 8 Achievement Test for Mathematics, Annotated Item 26. (author/sw)


Ohio Mathematics Academic Content Standards (2001)
Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard
Benchmarks (8–10)
G.
Estimate, compute and solve problems involving real numbers, including ratio, proportion and percent, and explain solutions.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 8)
6.
Estimate, compute and solve problems involving rational numbers, including ratio, proportion and percent, and judge the reasonableness of solutions.
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Number and Operations Standard
Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems
Expectations (6–8)
work flexibly with fractions, decimals, and percents to solve problems;