THE IOWA TESTS
Computation
(9th Grade)
Provided by Home Ed (Home Educators of Greater Little Rock)
This test is provided to enable each school system to tailor the selection of tests to the goals of its mathematics curriculum. In school systems which de-emphasize computation in the curriculum, the Mathematics: Concepts and Problem Solving test provides information to help evaluate performance and growth in mathematics. For school systems which include computational skills as part of their curriculum, the two tests in combination may provide a more complete profile of development within the mathematics program.
The questions included in this test were selected to represent the skills that are most directly related to the computational manipulations needed throughout the secondary school mathematics curriculum. Thus, the computation test includes not only questions that measure the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, and percents, but also questions that measure the ability to manipulate variables and to evaluate expressions with exponents or with square roots.