Most 8th graders can’t pass Maryland’s math test. Can you?

Can you find the area of a cylinder? Add exponential numbers? Solve a system of equations? Eighth graders in Maryland are supposed to know how to do all of that and more. But the latest round of state test scores shows that very few of them do. Just 7% of test-takers passed the state’s eighth grade math test, part of the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program.