About this book
Give your eighth grader the confidence to succeed on the Florida FAST Grade 8 Mathematics assessment.
This book contains five full-length practice tests — 180 questions total — aligned to Florida’s B.E.S.T. Mathematics standards for Grade 8 and built to match the format, difficulty, and content of the real Grade 8 FAST test.
Take a look inside
- Length: a real Grade 8 form runs 36 to 40 questions in one sitting.
- Format: FAST is computer-adaptive — the online test adjusts what it asks next based on how a student has answered.
- On paper instead of a screen: a paper test cannot adapt, so every test here is built at a fixed, middle difficulty and made a little harder from Test 1 to Test 5.
A practice sitting is the same length as test day, and the five tests together build the endurance the real screen asks for.
On test day: a full Grade 8 FAST Mathematics sitting runs about 100 minutes, with a scientific calculator and the state reference sheet available.
What’s inside
- 5 complete 36-question practice tests (180 questions total)
- Every question type the online test uses, printed on paper: multiple choice, multi-select, matching tables, and fill-in answers written in a box — so nothing on test day is unfamiliar
- The two-page Grade 8 Mathematics Reference Sheet, reproduced as Florida provides it, printed before every test — customary and metric conversions, the Pythagorean theorem, and the volume formulas for a cylinder, cone, and sphere
- Detailed answer explanations for every question — not just the correct letter, but the steps, the trap behind the wrong answer a student is most likely to reach, and a labeled Tip, Check, or Estimate
- Every test can also be taken online with instant scoring — the five access codes are printed inside the book
- Reporting categories balanced exactly as on the official test: Number Sense and Operations and Probability, Algebraic Reasoning, Linear Relationships and Data Analysis and Functions (the largest), and Geometric Reasoning
- A parent letter explaining how FAST works — three testing windows, a computer-adaptive test, the scientific calculator allowed in Grade 8 — with test-taking tips
- A quick-reference answer key for all five tests for fast scoring
Topics covered
- Properties of integer exponents, including negative exponents
- Scientific notation — writing large and small numbers, and multiplying and dividing in scientific notation
- Square roots and cube roots, and estimating an irrational number between two integers or on a number line
- Rational and irrational numbers, and order of operations with exponents and radicals
- Sample spaces and probability of compound events, including probability from a two-way table
- Multiplying monomials and linear expressions; factoring with a common factor
- Multi-step linear equations with variables on both sides, and how many solutions an equation has — one, none, or infinitely many
- Linear inequalities, including the sign flip
- Systems of two linear equations, solved algebraically and read from a graph
- Functions — what makes a relation a function, the vertical line test, linear vs. nonlinear, and comparing rates of change
- Slope and y-intercept from a table, a graph, two points, or a word problem, and what they mean in context
- Scatter plots, association, and using a line of best fit to predict
- The Pythagorean theorem and its converse, and the distance between two points
- Angle relationships — triangle and polygon angle sums, vertical angles, linear pairs
- Transformations on the coordinate plane — translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations, alone and in sequence
- Volume of cylinders and cones
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Written by experienced educators who study Florida’s official FAST test design, B.E.S.T. benchmarks, and released item samplers
- Every question mirrors what students will see on test day — no surprises in format, content, or rigor
- Explanations teach the “why,” not just the “what,” so students learn from every mistake
- Item types, names, and contexts varied across all five tests — just like a real exam, every question feels fresh
- The reference sheet with every test, exactly as on the real exam, so knowing where a formula sits on the sheet becomes a test-day skill
