Star Maths - Renaissance Australia

Renaissance Star Maths®

Increase maths mastery with actionable insight into each student’s maths skills and subskills—whether you’re teaching in-person, remotely, or a blend of both. For universal screening, progress monitoring, goal setting and more.

AWARD-WINNING MATH ASSESSMENT FOR GRADES 1–12

Unlock every student’s inner mathematician

Whether you are testing in person, remotely, or a combination of both, use Star Maths data to connect each student at every grade level with the concepts they need for future success.

Insights to differentiate and drive maths growth

Whether assessing in person or remotely, Star Maths puts assessment data to work for educators, so teachers can spend less time analysing results and more time differentiating instruction.

Get recommended groupings of students based on both their scaled scores and benchmark categories, or create your own groups for more effective small-group instruction.

Put assessment data in action with Star Maths’ instructional planning tools, which identify the specific skills each student group is ready to work on.

Short assessments. Timely insights. Fast growth.

Renaissance acts on our ever-growing database of more than 2.7 billion practice and assessment data points to glean new insights and refine our solutions. Learning analytics and advances in learning science give us more precision to enable shorter assessments and continually fine-tune state-specific learning progressions.

THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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Numbers and Operations

Star Maths measures students’ ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. This domain also covers primes, square roots, percents, and numerical expressions.
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Algebra

Students are asked to graph points and functions, evaluate variables, solve linear and nonlinear equations, simplify expressions, and complete other key algebraic tasks.
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Geometry and Measurement

Star Maths measures students’ ability to identify shapes, lines, and angles; determine and convert measurements; tell time; calculate the perimeter, area, volume, and surface area of shapes; and determine missing measurements or dimensions.
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Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Students are asked to read and answer questions about charts, tables, and graphs; calculate mean and median; make estimates and determine probabilities; and visually represent data sets.
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POWERFUL ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Assess maths skills across multiple domains

Lead students toward maths proficiency and mastery with a research-based, state-specific learning progression for maths. It shows you the continuum of maths strategies, skills, and subskills needed for students to achieve grade-level maths proficiency.

Counting and Cardinality
  • Whole Numbers: Counting, Comparing, and Ordering

 

Expressions and Equations
  • Evaluate Numerical Expressions
  • Evaluate and Use Variable Expressions
  • Linear Equations and Inequalities
  • Powers, Roots, and Radicals
  • Quadratic and Nonlinear Equations and Inequalities
  • Systems of Equations and Inequalities

 

Ratios and Proportional Relationships
  • Percents, Ratios, and Proportions

 

Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • Whole Numbers: Place Value
  • Whole Numbers: Counting Comparing, and Ordering
  • Whole Numbers: Addition and Subtraction
  • Whole Numbers: Multiplication and Division
  • Decimal Concepts and Operations
  • Powers, Roots, and Radicals
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • Whole Numbers: Counting Comparing, and Ordering
  • Whole Numbers: Addition and Subtraction
  • Whole Numbers: Multiplication and Division
  • Algebraic Thinking
  • Evaluate Numerical Expressions

 

Functions
  • Relations and Functions

 

Number and Operations – Fractions
  • Fraction Concepts and Operations
  • Decimal Concepts and Operations

 

The Number System
  • Whole Numbers: Multiplication and Division
  • Fraction Concepts and Operations
  • Decimal Concepts and Operations
  • Integers
  • Coordinate Geometry

 

Statistics and Probability
  • Data Representation and Analysis
  • Combinatorics and Probabilities
Geometry
  • Geometry: Two-Dimensional Shapes and Attributes
  • Geometry: Three-Dimensional Shapes and Attributes
  • Congruence and Similarity
  • Fraction Concepts and Operations
  • Coordinate Geometry
  • Perimeter, Circumference, and Area
  • Surface Area and Volume
  • Angles, Segments, and Lines Transformations
  • Transformations
  • Right Triangles and Trigonometry

 

Measurement and Data
  • Measurement
  • Time
  • Money
  • Geometry: Two-Dimensional Shapes and Attributes
  • Data Representation and Analysis
  • Whole Numbers: Counting, Comparing, and Ordering
  • Whole Numbers: Addition and Subtraction
  • Perimeter, Circumference, and Area
  • Angles, Segments, and Lines
  • Surface Area and Volume
Quantities
  • Data Representation and Analysis

 

Circles
  • Polygons and Circles

 

The Real Number System
  • Powers, Roots, and Radicals
  • Fraction Concepts and Operations

 

Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions
  • Data Representation and Analysis

 

Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational Expressions
  • Algebra of Polynomials

 

Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations
  • Coordinate Geometry
  • Polygons and Circles
Interpreting Functions
  • Relations and Functions

 

Conditional Probability and the Rules of Probability
  • Combinatorics and Probability

 

Seeing Structure in Expressions
  • Algebra of Polynomials
  • Linear Equations and Inequalities
  • Quadratic and Nonlinear Equations and Inequalities
  • Relations and Functions

 

Creating Equations
  • Linear Equations and Inequalities

 

Trigonometric Functions
  • Right Triangles and Trigonometry

 

The Complex Number System
  • Complex Numbers
  • Algebra of Polynomials

 

Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities
  • Linear Equations and Inequalities
  • Systems of Equations and Inequalities
  • Relations and Functions
  • Quadratic and Nonlinear Equations and Inequalities
Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data
  • Data Representations and Analysis

 

Linear, Quadratic, and Exponential Models
  • Linear Equations and Inequalities
  • Quadratic and Nonlinear Equations and Inequalities

 

Congruence
  • Angles, Segments, and Lines
  • Polygons and Circles
  • Transformations
  • Congruence and Similarity
  • Geometry: Two-Dimensional Shapes and Attributes

 

Building Functions
  • Relations and Functions

 

Using Probability to Make Decisions
  • Combinatorics and Probability

 

Geometric Measure and Dimension
  • Perimeter, Circumference, and Area
  • Surface Area and Volume
  • Geometry: Three-Dimensional Shapes and Attributes