Between which two whole numbers does √58 lie?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.2
One of these four numbers is irrational. Which one?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.1
What is the decimal expansion of 5/12?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.1
Which fraction is equal to the repeating decimal 0.222...?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.1
Which fraction is equal to the repeating decimal 0.272727...?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.1
Which is the best approximation of √70, to the nearest tenth?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.2
Which list shows π, √10 and 3.5 in order from least to greatest?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.NS.2
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Expressions and Equations 18
A lake holds about 4 × 10⁹ gallons of water. A pond holds about 2 × 10⁶ gallons. About how many times as much water does the lake hold?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.3
A line has a slope of 4 and crosses the y-axis at −3. Which equation describes the line?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.6
A school sells 40 tickets to a play for $254 in all. Adult tickets cost $8 and student tickets cost $5. How many adult tickets were sold?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.8
Car A travels y = 48x miles in x hours. The graph for Car B is a straight line through (0, 0) and (2, 104). Which car is faster, and by how much?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.5
The graph of the cost of apples is a straight line through (0, 0) and (5, 20), where x is pounds and y is dollars. What is the unit rate?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.5
How many solutions does 4x + 6 = 2(2x + 3) have?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.7
How many solutions does the system 2x + 3y = 8 and 2x + 3y = 11 have?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.8
Solve (3/4)x + 2 = 11.2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.7
Solve −4x + 3 > 23.2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.7
What is (3 × 10⁵) × (3 × 10⁷) in scientific notation?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.4
What is (6.4 × 10⁷) ÷ (1.6 × 10³) in scientific notation?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.4
What is the solution of the system y = 3x + 1 and y = −2x + 11?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.8
What is the solution of x³ = 125?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.2
What is the value of 4³ × 4⁻⁵?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.1
What value of x makes 4(x + 3) = 6x − 10 true?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.7
Which expression is equivalent to (3²)⁵?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.1
Which is the best estimate of 0.00052 as a single digit times a power of 10?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.3
Which values of x make x² = 196 true?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.EE.2
Functions 12
A ball is thrown straight up and caught at the same height. Which describes the graph of its height over time?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.5
A function assigns to each input x the output 5x − 3. What is the output for an input of 4?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.1
A graph shows a hiker's distance from home over time. The line rises steadily, then is flat for a while, then falls back to zero. What does the flat part show?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.5
A gym charges a $40 joining fee and $25 each month. Which function gives the total cost C after m months?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.4
A linear function has the table x: 0, 2, 4 and y: 9, 15, 21. Which equation matches the table?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.4
A linear function passes through (2, 7) and (6, 19). What is its rate of change?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.4
Function A is y = 2x + 7. Function B has the table x: 0, 1, 2 and y: 1, 6, 11. Which function has the greater rate of change?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.2
Plan A costs C = 20 + 5m dollars after m months. Plan B starts at $35 and adds $2 each month. How do the costs compare after 6 months?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.2
Three of these sets of ordered pairs are functions. Which one is not?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.1
The water left in a tank, in gallons, is h = 150 − 12t after t minutes. What does the −12 mean?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.4
What are the slope and the y-intercept of the graph of y = −2x + 6?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.3
Which of these equations defines a function that is not linear?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.F.3
Geometry 17
A cone has a radius of 9 inches and a height of 7 inches. What is its volume?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.9
A cylinder has a radius of 5 centimeters and a height of 7 centimeters. What is its volume?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.9
A ladder leans against a wall. Its top is 15 feet above the ground and its foot is 8 feet from the wall. How long is the ladder?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.7
A ramp is 13 feet long and rises 5 feet. How far does it reach along the ground?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.7
A rectangle is dilated by a scale factor of 2 and then translated 4 units up. How is the image related to the original rectangle?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.4
A sphere has a radius of 9 feet. What is its volume?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.9
A triangle has angles of 38° and 94°. How large is its third angle?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.5
A triangle is reflected across a line. Which statement about the image is true?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.1
An exterior angle of a triangle is next to one interior angle. The other two interior angles measure 45° and 70°. What is the measure of the exterior angle?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.5
One triangle has angles of 40° and 75°. Another has angles of 75° and 65°. Are the triangles similar?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.5
The point (2, −5) is dilated by a scale factor of 3 with the center at the origin. What are the coordinates of the image?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.3
The point (5, −4) is reflected across the y-axis. What are the coordinates of the image?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.3
The point (−4, 1) is translated 6 units right and 3 units down. What are the coordinates of the image?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.3
Triangle ABC is translated 5 units right and then reflected across the x-axis. How is the image related to triangle ABC?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.2
Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed measures 64°. What is the measure of its alternate interior angle?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.5
What is the distance between the points (−2, 1) and (10, 6)?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.8
Which of these triangles is a right triangle?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.G.6
Statistics and Probability 7
A scatter plot shows the outside temperature and the cups of lemonade a stand sells each day. The points rise from the lower left to the upper right. What kind of association is this?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.1
A student draws a straight line on a scatter plot to model the data. When does the line fit the data well?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.2
A two-way table shows that 30 of the 50 students who have a pet play a sport, and 20 of the 50 students with no pet play a sport. What percent of the students who have a pet play a sport?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.4
The cost of a taxi ride, in dollars, is modeled by y = 1.75x + 3, where x is the number of miles. What does the 3 represent?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.3
The height of a plant, in centimeters, is modeled by y = 2.5x + 10, where x is the number of weeks. What height does the model predict after 6 weeks?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.3
In a scatter plot, most points lie close together along a line, but one point lies far away from all the others. What is that point called?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.1
Of 40 students with a curfew, 32 have chores. Of 40 students with no curfew, 10 have chores. Is there evidence that having a curfew is associated with having chores?2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, grade 8, standard 8.SP.4
How this list was compiled: Outline: Mathematics, Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) Blueprints, Office of Student Assessment, Mississippi Department of Education (August 2026), page 9, Grade 8 Mathematics, https://mdek12.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2026/08/Math_MAAP_Blueprints_rebrand_august2026.pdf, linked from ELA and Math Resources, https://mdek12.org/studentassessment/ela-and-math-resources/, read 2026-10-09: the reporting categories, the standards available for assessment, the percent of points for each category, and the items, points and time. Each question names the standard it practices in the 2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics, https://mdek12.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2025/07/CCRS-MATH-2025-ADA-Version-FINAL-July-14-2025.pdf, read 2026-10-09. The answers are arithmetic and algebra on the numbers in the question, each worked a second time. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a MAAP test, a practice test or sampler of the department, or another practice test.
How it works
Unofficial practice for the grade 8 mathematics test of MAAP, the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program. Its 61 questions match the number that count on the real test. None is a MAAP item. Not affiliated with the Mississippi Department of Education.
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What a grade 8 mathematics practice test for Mississippi covers
The MAAP blueprint gives each reporting category a share of the points, and the questions here follow it. Expressions and Equations and Geometry carry the most: exponents, scientific notation, linear equations and systems, then transformations, angle facts, the Pythagorean Theorem and volume. Functions covers rules, rates of change and reading graphs. The Number System covers irrational numbers, and Statistics and Probability covers scatter plots and two-way tables.
Where each answer can be checked
Each explanation shows the steps and names its standard, such as 8.EE.7, in the 2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics.
Volume answers here are left in terms of π. Know the formulas for a cylinder, a cone and a sphere.
Questions and answers
Are there MAAP practice tests for 8th grade math?
This page is one, and it is unofficial. The Mississippi Department of Education posts its own practice tests and samplers with answer keys on its ELA and Math Resources page, linked in the box under the questions.
How many questions are on the 8th grade MAAP math test?
The blueprint lists 61 items that count, worth 65 points, plus 10 field test items: 71 in all, in one session.
How long is the Mississippi 8th grade math test?
One session of 180 minutes, the blueprint says. Students with a documented need can get timing accommodations.
Can you use a calculator on the 8th grade MAAP math test?
Yes, on every item. The state's policy allows a scientific calculator in grade 8, and the online test has one built in. Graphing calculators and calculators that solve equations are not allowed.