(1) The benchmark for mathematics content standard 7 for a student at the end of grade 8 is the ability to:

(a) describe, extend, analyze, and create a variety of patterns and functions;

(b) describe and represent relationships with tables, graphs, and rules;

(c) analyze functional relationships to explain how a change in one quantity results in a change in another;

(d) use patterns and functions to represent and solve problems; and

(e) describe functions using graphical, numerical, physical, algebraic, and verbal models or representations.