TEKS-Aligned Online Math Practice for Texas Students: Our Grade 3–8 STAAR Coverage Map

iPrepGenius has 21,478 STAAR math practice questions for grades 3–8, mapped to the TEKS (2,684–4,104 per grade), organized into 78 skills that cover all four STAAR mathematics reporting categories at every grade, including the Texas Personal Financial Literacy strand. Every question is original, multiple-choice and fully explained, and practice adapts its difficulty to the child. The tables below show the live count for each grade, reporting category and skill — including where coverage is still thin.

Comparing options? See IXL alternatives for STAAR prep for other TEKS-aligned programs side by side, and every free STAAR practice test source— starting with TEA's own released tests.

Key findings

• All four STAAR reporting categories are covered at every grade, 3–8 — Numerical Representations, Computations & Algebraic Relationships, Geometry & Measurement, and Data Analysis & Personal Financial Literacy.
• 10 skills were added specifically for the TEKS— the Personal Financial Literacy strand at every grade, which Common Core doesn't have, plus sections built around STAAR's emphasis such as coordinate plane & relationships (grade 6), data displays: dot plots, histograms & box plots (grade 6), circles: circumference & area (grade 7), angle relationships & similarity (grade 8).
• 28% of questions are rated hard (difficulty 4–5 on our 1–5 scale) — the stretch a child needs to move from “Approaches” toward “Masters”.
• Still thin: grade 5 Unit Conversion & Data (89), grade 5 Coordinate Plane (11). These skills have fewer than 100 live questions; we say so rather than round them up.

Coverage vs. what STAAR weights, by grade

“STAAR questions” is the number of questions TEA's blueprint puts in each reporting category on the grade's test. “Our questions” is the live count of unretired iPrepGenius practice questions we map to that category.

Category 1 is “Numerical Representations and Relationships” (grade 7: “Probability and Numerical Representations”); 2 is “Computations and Algebraic Relationships”; 3 is “Geometry and Measurement”; 4 is “Data Analysis and Personal Financial Literacy”. Blueprint ranges from TEA's STAAR Mathematics Resources (blueprints effective 2022–23).

What this map does not show

• Student-expectation level. Our questions are tagged to a skill, not to an individual TEKS student expectation (such as 7.4D), so this map stops at the skill and reporting-category level. The “Main TEKS” column names what each skill mainly targets, and each skill sits in the category TEA's STAAR Mathematics Assessed Curriculum assigns those expectations to. Which TEKS a skill targets is our judgment, not a TEA crosswalk, and a few skills touch a second category (noted in the tables).
• STAAR's newer question types. Since spring 2023 STAAR math can include equation-editor, text-entry, graphing, drag-and-drop, hot-spot, inline-choice and multiselect questions, and no more than 75% of points can come from multiple choice. Our practice is multiple-choice only, so use TEA's free Texas Assessment practice tests to rehearse those formats in the real testing platform.
• Common Core leftovers. Our sections started from Common Core clusters and were extended for Texas, so a few (noted in the tables) include material the TEKS place in a different grade or don't emphasize.
• The test itself is changing. TEA says that under House Bill 8 STAAR is being replaced with a new assessment program — check TEA's page for the timeline. Practice aligned to the TEKS, the standards Texas classrooms teach, stays useful either way.

Methodology

Counts are computed live from the iPrepGenius question bank each time this page loads: unretired math questions in the grade 3–8 core banks that Texas STAAR students practise from, counted only at their own grade. Each skill is placed in a STAAR reporting category using TEA's STAAR Mathematics Assessed Curriculum for that grade; category names and per-category question counts come from TEA's grade 3–8 math blueprints (effective 2022–23). Notes where a skill and the TEKS differ were checked against the TEKS text in 19 TAC Chapter 111. “Hard” means difficulty 4–5 on our 1–5 scale, assigned at generation and refined by calibration. Our questions are original practice items, not STAAR items, and iPrepGenius is not affiliated with TEA. You're welcome to cite this page with a link.