STAR Test Strategies
Number Sense
Algebra and Functions
Measurement and Geometry
Probability and Statistics
100
While you read the question, you need to _________ the important information.
circle
100
I am a fraction.
I can also be written in two more ways: "3:4 or 3 to 4"
My name begins with an "r."
What's my name?
I am a ratio or a rate.
100
I look like 3x = 12.
I can also look like r - 10 = 40.
Sometimes you have to find my missing number.
What is my name?
I am an equation.
100
I am the perimeter of a circle.
I measure the outside around the circle, not the inside space.
I am 2*pi*r or pi*d.
What is my name?
I am the circumference.
100
I am the number you see the most often.
If I give you 34, 34, 20, 40, 40, 40, my answer is 40.
What is my name?
I am the mode.
200
If you know that one of the answers is wrong, you should _____.
Eliminate it OR cross it out.
200
12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
8: 1, 2, 4, 8
I am three words.
What's my name?
I am greatest common divisor or greatest common factor?
200
I can look like "3x" or "n + 5.4."
I can also look like 5y + 5 * 5.
Sometimes you have to evaluate me.
Evaluate means to find my number answer.
What is my name?
I am an expression.
200
I am a triangle with two sides that are the same length.
I might have two tick marks on those two sides.
What is my name?
I am an isosceles triangle.
200
You have to add the numbers first, and then divide.
My other name is "average."
What is my name?
I am the mean.
300
TRUE or FALSE: If one question is too hard to answer, I can skip it and come back to it later.
TRUE
300
You are happy when you are shopping and you see me.
My other name is "mark down."
What's my name?
I am a discount.
300
My Spanish name is "uno."
My English name is "unit" or "unit rate" or "unit cost."
So unit means one.
I see 5 oranges for $3.00. What is the unit cost?
$0.60 or 60 cents
300
I am two angles that make a ssstraight line.
I can be 50 degrees and 130 degrees.
Or I can be 170 degrees and 10 degrees.
What is my name?
I am supplementary.
300
There are four purple shirts, five white shirts, and one black shirt.
What is the probability of picking a purple shirt at random?
Answer with a fraction, decimal, and percent.
4/10 = 0.40 or 0.4 = 40%
400
Tom looked at the answers to one question. He saw that the answers are far apart. He has to do 23 x 39. But first he does 20 x 40. That is called ___________.
rounding or estimating.
400
I am a word that means subtract.
30 - (-40) = 70
What's my name?
I am a difference.
400
My Spanish name is "uno."
My English name is "unit" or "unit rate" or "unit cost."
So unit means one.
Which store has the least unit cost for cookies.?
4 cookies for $1.64 or 5 cookies for $1.95
5 cookies for $1.95
400
What is the complement of a 53 degree angle?
90 - 53 = 37 degrees OR 37 + 53 = 90. The answer is 37 degrees.
400
I can help you make a list of all outcomes or possibilities.
I am a t_____ and a t______ diagram.
What are my names?
I am a table and a tree diagram.