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8th Grade Math - Saving for College

Updated: Nov 2, 2025

This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 8.12G:

estimate the cost of a two-year and four-year college education, including family contribution, and devise a periodic savings plan for accumulating the money needed to contribute to the total cost of attendance for at least the first year of college

Instruction

Students build on their previous knowledge of saving for college and use it to calculate the cost needed for multiple years of attendance.

STAAR Practice

Between 2016 and 2025 (including redesign practice), this supporting standard has been tested 6 times on the STAAR test. Videos explaining the problems can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to the questions in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.

To view all the posts in this 8th grade TEKS review series, click here.

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