CMAS Math Practice
Colorado Measures of Academic Success. CMAS is built on standards derived from Common Core. Briveli's CC-aligned curriculum covers the same skills.
Spring (early April through early May, two-week district window)
Computer-based
No calculator in grades 3-5. Grade 6 may use a four-function calculator on the calculator-allowed section; grades 7-8 use a scientific calculator on the calculator-allowed section. The TestNav embedded calculator is the default tool.
Five performance levels: Did Not Yet Meet Expectations, Partially Met Expectations, Approached Expectations, Met Expectations, Exceeded Expectations
About the CMAS
CMAS — Colorado Measures of Academic Success — is Colorado's annual math assessment for grades 3 through 8, built on the Colorado Academic Standards. Those standards are the state's 2020 revision of the Common Core, so CMAS items map cleanly to CCSS-M domains while using Colorado-specific phrasing. The test is delivered online through Pearson's TestNav platform, with a paper accommodation available on request. Colorado used the PARCC item bank for years and still draws from that history; many CMAS released items are recognizable to teachers who taught PARCC, which makes Colorado a strong fit for CC-aligned curricula.
CMAS reports five performance levels rather than the four most states use: Did Not Yet Meet Expectations, Partially Met, Approached, Met, and Exceeded Expectations. Met Expectations is the proficiency bar Colorado uses for federal accountability and the state's School Performance Framework. Each math test runs about 2.5 to 3 hours total, split across three sessions, and is administered in a roughly two-week district window in April. Family score reports are mailed in the late summer and include sub-claim feedback in Major Content, Additional & Supporting Content, Expressing Mathematical Reasoning, and Modeling & Application.
Official source: https://www.cde.state.co.us/assessment/cmas
Practice by Grade
CMAS FAQ
Did CMAS replace PARCC in Colorado?+
CMAS originally was Colorado's PARCC test under a state brand. Colorado left PARCC in 2015 but kept the CMAS name and continued to use the PARCC math item bank for several years, gradually shifting to Colorado-built items aligned to the 2020 Colorado Academic Standards.
Is CMAS computer-adaptive?+
No. CMAS math is a fixed-form online test — every student in a grade sees the same set of items. The fixed-form design is one of the main differences between CMAS and Smarter Balanced.
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