8th Grade Math Pre-Assessment

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1. What four (4) jobs do you think you might enjoy?

2. Have you moved recently? Has someone you know moved recently? Ever?

3. How often do you check your notes? Be honest.

4. Would you enjoy writing if you were writing song or rap lyrics? Which one and why?

5. Do you like to learn what to do by being told or by finding out yourself?

6. Would you do homework if you like what you were doing? Yes or No?

7. Do you prefer to work…

a. Alone? Why or why not?

b. In pairs? Why or why not?

 c. In groups? Why or why not?

8. Volume is two-dimensional. (Circle one) True False

9. In your own words, why do we use square units to represent the

area of a square? Use the graph of a square to the right to help
you.

10. Fill in the table below using the equation 𝑦 = 3𝑥 − 1.

x 0 1 2 3

11. What is the difference between the average income for someone with a bachelor’s degree
($56,665) and the average income for a high school dropout ($20,241)?

12. Dipesh wants to play a game of soccer in a small yard near his home, but he is not sure it
has enough room. He thinks he will need at least 1,000 square feet to have a good time.
He guesses that the yard is about 20 feet wide and 45 feet long. How many square feet is
that, and is it big enough?
13. The perimeter of the square below is 36 feet. What is the area?

14.What is the area of the circle?

15. Fatima is at Big Daddy’s arguing with her friends. They want to buy a Super Combo 26”
pizza for $46.00, but she thinks it’s a better deal to get two Super Combo 14” pizzas for
$20.99 each. She says they would get more pizza at a cheaper price. Is she right? How do
you know? (Hint: What shape do pizzas come in?)

16.What is the circumference of 24-inch rims?

17. The volume of the rectangular prism on the right is 1,944 units. What is the height h of
the prism?
18.One of the post office’s priority mail boxes is a rectangular prism 7 inches wide, 7 inches
tall, and 6 inches thick. If they were to remake it to have the same volume with a side that
was 5 inches wide and 7 inches tall, how thick would the rest have to be?

19.Write an equation using only A and C. (It cannot include b!)

A = 7b + 40
B = 20c

20.Joaquin is trying to figure out how much bigger the iPhone X is compared to his iPhone 8
before he buys it. He uses Google to find out that the iPhone X is 5.7 inches tall, 2.8
inches wide, and 0.3 inches thick. He then looks up his iPhone 8 and finds that it is 5.4
inches tall, 2.6 inches wide, and 0.3 inches thick. What is the difference in volume?

21.This was printed on 11 inch by 8.5 inch paper. If we were to roll it so that the 8.5 inch side
became a circle, what would be the diameter of that circle? Use algebra. (Hint: What is the
circumference of the circle?)