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Math Problems From TAKS 2008

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Studying previous TAKS questions can prepare kids for upcoming exams.

The Texas Education Agency uses Texas Assessment of Knowledge Skills (TAKS) exams to assess the performance of school-aged children in the state. Testing subjects range from language skills to science to mathematics, with administrators testing students every year from the third grade through grades 11 and 12. The first TAKS that the Texas Education Agency released were those used for the 2008-2009 school year. These tests can be a useful study tool, particularly for students needing to brush up on mathematics.

  1. Elementary School

    • The Texas Education Agency first begins testing Texas schoolchildren in the third grade. For 2008-2009, these problems typically included simple functions like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, along with non-complex formulas and identifications. For example, students had to be able to identify simple geometric shapes, the time on an analog clock, and information on a simple graph. Later in elementary school, added concepts included an understanding of pi, multiplication and division of fractions, and work with decimals, as included in the sixth grade math test from 2008-2009.

    Middle School

    • Math comprehension should increase in the middle school years, and the 2008-2009 TAKS test for seventh and eighth grades reflects this. For these tests, students received problems dealing with surface area and volume, complex graphing, algebra, and simple functions. As with earlier tests, many questions featured word problems that tested not only a student's ability to perform the math, but also that student's ability to read critically and to find the question within the words. (

    Early High School

    • Freshmen and sophomore students had to be able to solve every kind of problem presented in the TAKS for previous grades. In addition to those problems, the TAKS 2008-2009 for freshmen and sophomores included more complex functions, geometry and proofs and intricate charts and graphs. Additionally, most problems were also word-heavy, again forcing students to find the math within the words of a problem.

    Exit Level

    • Finally, for juniors and seniors, the Texas Education Agency offered just one exit-level exam to test math preparation for college or the workplace. In 2008-2009, the Agency presented this exam as the most challenging TAKS. Students built upon all prior math knowledge. Additionally, students answered complex questions that required use of the quadratic formula and pre-calculus, square roots including imaginary numbers, and three dimensional geometry. The test stops short of requiring students to have knowledge of advanced placement mathematics or regular calculus.

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