Book excerpt: Prepares Students for the 2018-2019 Smarter Balanced (SBAC) Assessments! This extensive skill-building quiz book contains over 200 pages of quizzes targeting over 50 mathematics skills! Each quiz focuses on one specific skill, with questions progressing from simple to more complex. Students will develop a thorough understanding of each skill, while also gaining experience with all the types of tasks found on the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) assessments. Divided into Convenient Topics - Includes sections for operations and algebraic thinking, number and operations, fractions, measurement, data, and geometry - Each section contains a focused quiz for each individual skill - Each quiz includes a range of question types and increasing rigor to develop a thorough understanding of the skill - Targeted format allows test preparation to be easily integrated into student learning - Division by domain allows the quizzes to be used to prepare for the Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) - Allows ongoing practice to prepare for the Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs) and the complete summative assessments taken at the end of the school year Prepares Students for the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) Assessments - Covers all the Common Core skills assessed on the SBAC tests - Provides practice for selected-response, constructed-response, and technology-enhanced questions - More rigorous questions prepare students for the higher difficulty of the new assessments - Develops the thorough and in-depth understanding needed for the SBAC tests - Prepares students for questions that involve written explanations, showing work, and justifying answers - Guided tasks teach students what is expected in answers Key Benefits - Develops a thorough understanding by focusing on one skill at a time - Reduces test anxiety by allowing ongoing test practice - Individual quizzes allow gaps in knowledge to be targeted - Ensures students are comfortable with a range of question formats - Prepares students for more complex and advanced questions - Provides revision and test practice as the student learns