Official Massachusetts MCAS Math resources

Official standards, blueprints, tools, and practice information

Published by Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Links open the official source.

• 2017 Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Framework — The current statewide mathematics standards and learning framework.
• MCAS Mathematics Test Design and Development — DESE's central page for mathematics test designs, reference sheets, policies, and related materials.
• Grades 3–8 Mathematics Test Designs — Official grade-band test-design documentation.
• Grade 10 Mathematics Test Design — Official Grade 10 test-design documentation.
• Grade 10 standards assessed on MCAS — DESE's grade-specific list of assessed mathematics standards.
• Released MCAS test questions — Current and historical released-item documents and links to the official item library.
• MCAS practice tests and tutorials — Official practice-test, tutorial, and testing-interface resources linked by DESE.
• MCAS Mathematics calculator policy — The official policy for calculator use by grade and session.
• MCAS Mathematics reference sheets — The official reference-sheet directory for the Grades 3–8 and 10 tests.
• Student work samples and scoring guides — Released student work, question examples, scoring guides, and responses.

How TestByState uses these sources

• Massachusetts mathematics standards and grade-specific assessed standards
• MCAS test-design documentation and released-item patterns
• Official calculator/session rules and reference-material information
• Original practice questions with automated mathematical checks
• Automated content checks plus human review

Full Practice Tests are practice approximations and may not reproduce every official constructed-response, interface, or scoring feature. Released questions help us understand assessment patterns; they are not copied into our practice.