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The Student Assessment Division manages and oversees the development, administration, scoring, and analysis of the statewide assessment program. The statewide assessment program includes the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), including TAKS (Accommodated), TAKS-Modified (TAKS-M), TAKS-Alternate (TAKS-Alt), the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

This site is the Center for Educator Development for Mathematics. It provides resources for implementing the mathematics TEKS and strengthening mathematics education in Texas.

Grade-level resources to help educators teach the content described in the K–12 mathematics TEKS for student success on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).

Download these templates to increase student participation and assess student proficency and understanding in number operations, fact practice, place value, multiplication, fraction, decimal, percent, patterns and algebra.

Below is a list of math vocabulary words from the 2003 and 2004 released Math TAKS tests as well as the TEKS student expectations. You may want to add words to it from the other released Math TAKS tests as they become available.

Dallas County schools and its partner school districts (Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Garland, Highland Park, and Richardson) have developed these materials to assist you in better understanding the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test. Our team has analyzed every question on the 2003, 2004, and 2006 released tests so that you can easily see detailed analysis of every TAKS items regarding: Why are correct answers correct? What kinds of distracters/incorrect answers were used? How did students think/compute that caused them to answer incorrectly? What information will help teachers focus their instruction more specifically?

This site offers great math quotes to use in the math classroom. For example, "I never got a pass mark in math.....just imagine--Mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books." M.C. Escher. Here's another..... "I advise my studetns to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more math courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors" James Caballero.