Content Areas – Mathematics

EmSAT Achieve Math Public Test Specification

Appendix 1: Content Areas

  • Interpret the structure of expressions
  • Write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems
  • Perform arithmetic operations on polynomials
  • Understand the relationship between zeros and factors of polynomials
  • Use polynomial identities to solve problems
  • Rewrite rational functions
  • Create equations that describe numbers or relationships
  • Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning
  • Solve equations and inequalities in one variable
  • Solve systems of equations
  • Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically
  • Understand the concept of a function and use function notation
  • Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context
  • Analyze functions using different representations
  • Build a function that models a relationship between two quantities
  • Build new functions from existing functions
  • Construct and compare linear and exponential models and solve problems
  • Interpret expressions for functions in terms of the situation they model
  • Extend the domain of trigonometric functions using the unit circle
  • Model periodic phenomena with trigonometric functions
  • Prove and apply trigonometric identities
  • Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents
  • Use properties of rational and irrational numbers
  • Reason quantitatively and use units to solve problems
  • Perform operations with complex numbers
  • Represent and model with vector quantities
  • Perform operations on vectors
  • Perform operations on matrices and use matrices in applications
  • Solve problems with limits
  • Solve basic differentiation problems
  • Solve basic integration problem
  • Experiment with transformations in the plane
  • Understand congruence in terms of transformation
  • Prove geometric theorems
  • Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations
  • Prove theorems involving similarity
  • Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles
  • Apply trigonometry to general triangles
  • Understand and apply theorems about circles
  • Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section
  • Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically
  • Explain volume formulas and use them to solve problems
  • Visualize relationships between two dimensional and three-dimensional objects
  • Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single variable
  • Summarize, represent, and interpret data on two categorical and quantitative variables
  • Interpret linear models
  • Understand and evaluate random
  • processes underlying statistical experiments
  • Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments and observational studies
  • Understand independence and conditional probability and use them to interpret data
  • Use the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model
  • Calculate expected values and use them to solve problems
  • Use probability to evaluate outcomes
    of decisions

EmSAT Achieve Math Public Test Specification

Appendix 2: Sample Items

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