Grade 8 Curriculum

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Grade 8 | Numbers
☐ Understand Binary Numbers
Base Conversion
Binary, Decimal and Hexadecimal Numbers
Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal Converter
Binary Digits
Binary Number System
Power Set
Power Set Maker
☐ Understand Hexadecimal Numbers
Hexadecimal Color Names
Binary, Decimal and Hexadecimal Numbers
Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal Converter
Hexadecimal Drum Machine
Hexadecimal / Decimal Colors
Hexadecimal Multiplication Table
Hexadecimals
Base Conversion
☐ Convert from base ten to another base number, and vice versa.
Base Conversion Method
Base Conversion
☐ Round a number to a required number of decimal places or a required number of significant digits.
Rounding Numbers
Approximate Solutions
Rounding Methods
☐ Understand that there are other numeral systems such as Roman numerals, and how to convert from one system to the other.
Roman Numerals
☐ Understand what is meant by a surd, and that if you can't simplify a number to remove a square root(or cube root etc) then it is a surd.
Surds
Root Jigsaw Puzzle
☐ Calculate a square root using the 'guess method'.
Squares and Square Roots
☐ Be familair with various rounding methods and when to use them
Rounding Methods
Rounding Tool
Grade 8 | Percentages
☐ Read, write, and identify percents less than 1% and greater than 100%
Introduction to Percentages
Percentage Calculator
Decimals, Fractions and Percentages
Convert Percents to Fractions
☐ Apply percents to: * Tax * Simple interest * Sale price * Commission * Interest rates * Gratuities
Percentage Difference, Percentage Error, Percentage Change
Introduction to Interest
Percentage Difference
Percentage Points
Percentage Calculator
Definition of Commission
Test Your Percentages
☐ Understand what is meant by percentage error, and how to calculate it.
Percentage Difference, Percentage Error, Percentage Change
Activity: Find an Approximate Value For Pi
Percentage Error
☐ Understand what is meant by percentage points and basis points.
Percentage Points
☐ Understand what is meant by percentage change (percentage increase or percentage decrease), and how to calculate it.
Percentage Difference, Percentage Error, Percentage Change
Percentage Change
☐ Understand what is meant by percentage difference, and how to calculate it.
Percentage Difference, Percentage Error, Percentage Change
Percentage Difference
Grade 8 | Ratios
☐ Know how to share a quantity in a given ratio e.g. Share the profits of a company in the ratio of the investments of the partners
Ratios
The Herd of Camels
Grade 8 | Measurement
☐ Solve equations/proportions to convert to equivalent measurements within the metric measurement system
Conversion of Area
Conversion of Length
How to Safely Convert From One Unit to Another
Unit Converter
Conversion of Volume
Measuring Metrically with Maggie
☐ Know the metric units of speed (velocity): meters per second (ms-1) and kilometers per hour (kmh-1)
Metric System of Measurement
Metric Speed (Velocity)
Unit Converter
☐ Recognize the difference between the expressions 'weight' and 'mass', and know the correct metric unit for weight (Newton)
Weight or Mass?
☐ Solve equations/proportions to convert to equivalent measurements from metric to customary measurement systems and vice versa.
How to Convert Imperial to Metric
How to Convert Metric to Imperial
Unit Converter
☐ Solve equations/proportions to convert to equivalent measurements within the US standard measurement system
Conversion of Length
Conversion of Area
How to Safely Convert From One Unit to Another
Introduction to US Standard Units
Unit Converter
Conversion of Volume
☐ Know the standard US units of speed (velocity): Feet per second(fps) and Miles per hour(mph).
US Standard Speed (Velocity)
Unit Converter
☐ Recognize the difference between the expressions 'weight' and 'mass', and know the correct US standard unit for weight (pound-force)
Weight or Mass?
☐ Know the metric units of acceleration and how to calculate acceleration given initial velocity, final velovity and the time interval.
Metric System of Measurement
☐ Convert from degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius and vice versa.
Conversion of Temperature - Celsius to Fahrenheit
Unit Converter
Interactive Thermometer
Grade 8 | Geometry (Plane)
☐ Apply algebra to determine the measure of angles formed by or contained in parallel lines cut by a transversal and by intersecting lines
Transversals
Definition of Parallel Lines
Parallel Lines, and Pairs of Angles
☐ Construct the following using a straight edge and compass: * Segment congruent to a segment * Angle congruent to an angle * Perpendicular bisector * Angle bisector
Definition of Contruction (Geometry)
Definition of Compass (Drawing)
Same (congruent) Angle Construction
Line Bisector Construction
Angle Bisector Construction
30 Degree Angle Construction
45 Degree Angle Construction
60 Degree Angle Construction
Inscribe a Circle in a Triangle Construction
Point to Tangents on a Circle Construction
Bisect
☐ Identify pairs of vertical angles as congruent
Congruent Angles
Vertical Angles
Vertically Opposite Angles
Definition of Vertical Angles
Parallel Lines, and Pairs of Angles
Congruent
☐ Draw the image of a figure under a translation
Transformations
Geometry Translation
Definition of Translation
Definition of Translate
Congruent
☐ Draw the image of a figure under a dilation (resizing)
Similar
Geometry Resizing
Transformations
Definition of Enlarge
☐ Identify the properties preserved and not preserved under a reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation
Congruent
Geometry - Reflection
Geometry Resizing
Geometry Rotation
Rotational Symmetry
Transformations
Geometry Translation
Definition of Reflection
Reflection Symmetry
Clock in the Mirror
Definition of Rotation
Definition of Rotational Symmetry
Symmetry - Reflection and Rotation
Rotation Game
Similar
Pentomino Challenge
Pentomino Puzzle
Activity: Make a Mandala
☐ Identify pairs of supplementary and complementary angles
Complementary Angles
Supplementary Angles
Interior Angle
Adjacent Angles
Exterior Angle
☐ Calculate the missing angle in a supplementary or complementary pair
Complementary Angles
Supplementary Angles
Interior Angle
Definition of Complementary Angle
Definition of Supplementary Angles
Angles on a Straight Line Add to 180
Exterior Angle
☐ Determine angle pair relationships when given two parallel lines cut by a transversal
Transversals
Alternate Exterior Angles
Alternate Interior Angles
Consecutive Interior Angles
Corresponding Angles
Parallel Lines, and Pairs of Angles
Definition of Parallel
Definition of Parallel Lines
Definition of Transversal
Definition of Intersection
☐ Calculate the missing angle measurements when given two parallel lines cut by a transversal
Transversals
Alternate Exterior Angles
Alternate Interior Angles
Consecutive Interior Angles
Corresponding Angles
Parallel Lines, and Pairs of Angles
☐ Calculate the missing angle measurements when given two intersecting lines and an angle
Vertical Angles
Vertically Opposite Angles
Parallel Lines, and Pairs of Angles
☐ Describe and identify transformations in the plane, using proper function notation (rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations)
Geometry - Reflection
Geometry Resizing
Geometry Rotation
Geometry Translation
Function Transformations
Transformations
☐ Draw the image of a figure under rotations of 90 degrees and 180 degrees, and identify rotations by multiples of 30 degrees
Geometry Rotation
Rotational Symmetry
Transformations
Symmetry - Reflection and Rotation
Pentomino Challenge
Pentomino Puzzle
Point Symmetry
Activity: Make a Mandala
☐ Draw the image of a figure under a reflection over a given line
Geometry - Reflection
Transformations
Symmetry - Reflection and Rotation
Reflection Symmetry
Grade 8 | Algebra
☐ Factor algebraic expressions using the GCF
Greatest Common Factor
Definition of Factor
Definition of Greatest Common Factor
Definition of Factoring
Factoring in Algebra
☐ Write verbal expressions that match given mathematical expressions
The Language of Mathematics
Solving Word Questions
☐ Understand cross-multiply
Cross Multiply
☐ Know the Implication and Iff symbols, and when each of them is used.
Implication and Iff
☐ Be familiar with the language of mathematics, including: symbols, letter conventions, variables and mathematical sentences.
The Language of Mathematics
Symbols in Algebra
Symbols in Geometry
Grade 8 | Exponents
☐ Develop and apply the laws of exponents for multiplication and division
Laws of Exponents
Exponents
Exponents of Negative Numbers
nth Roots
Variables with Exponents - How to Multiply and Divide them
☐ Evaluate expressions with integer exponents
Laws of Exponents
Exponents
Index Notation - Powers of 10
Negative Exponents
Exponents of Negative Numbers
Using Exponents in Algebra
Grade 8 | Inequalities
☐ Translate verbal sentences into algebraic inequalities.
Introduction to Inequalities
Definition of Inequality
The Language of Mathematics
☐ Solve multi-step inequalities and graph the solution set on a number line
Solving Inequalities
☐ Solve linear inequalities by combining like terms, using the distributive property, or moving variables to one side of the inequality (include multiplication or division of inequalities by a negative number)
Properties of Inequalities
Solving Inequalities
☐ Graph the solution set of an inequality on a number line
Solving Inequalities
Properties of Inequalities
Number Line
Intervals
Grade 8 | Coordinates
☐ Determine the equation of a line given the slope and the y-intercept, and vice versa
Slope (Gradient) of a Straight Line
Gradient (Slope) of a Straight Line
Y Intercept of a Straight Line
Explore the properties of a straight line graph
Equation of a Straight Line
Linear Equation Test
Calculate the Straight Line Graph
Linear Equations
☐ Understand Polar Coordinates, and how to convert from Cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates and vice versa.
Cartesian Coordinates
Polar and Cartesian Coordinates
Definition of Polar Coordinates
☐ Calculate the area of a polygon given the coordinates of its vertices
Area of Irregular Polygons
☐ Know how to find the slope and y-intercept of a straight line from its graph
Calculate the Straight Line Graph
Y Intercept of a Straight Line
Linear Equation Test
Gradient (Slope) of a Straight Line
Slope (Gradient) of a Straight Line
Equation of a Straight Line
Explore the properties of a straight line graph
Grade 8 | Quadratic Equations
☐ Recognize the characteristics of quadratics in tables, graphs, equations, and situations
Quadratic Equations
Function Grapher and Calculator
Explore the Quadratic Equation
Parabola
Grade 8 | Polynomials
☐ Factor a trinomial in the form ax^2 + bx + c; a=1 and c having no more than three sets of factors
Factoring in Algebra
Factoring Quadratics
☐ Use physical models to perform operations with polynomials
Definition of Polynomial
Mathematical Models
☐ Multiply and divide monomials
Definition of Monomial
Multiplying Polynomials
Algebra - Expanding
Fractions in Algebra
Dividing Polynomials
☐ Add and subtract polynomials (integer coefficients)
Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
☐ Multiply a binomial by a monomial or a binomial (integer coefficients)
Multiplying Polynomials
Algebra - Expanding
☐ Divide a polynomial by a monomial (integer coefficients) Note: The degree of the denominator is less than or equal to the degree of the numerator for all variables.
Degree (of an Expression)
Dividing Polynomials
Polynomials - Long Division
Grade 8 | Functions
☐ Define and use correct terminology when referring to function (domain and range)
Domain, Range and Codomain
What is a Function
☐ Determine whether a relation is a function
Domain, Range and Codomain
What is a Function
Grade 8 | Estimation
☐ Estimate a percent of a quantity, given an application
Estimation Games
Introduction to Percentages
☐ Justify the reasonableness of answers using estimation
Estimation Tips and Tricks
Estimation (Introduction)
Visual Estimation
Grade 8 | Graphs
☐ Find a set of ordered pairs to satisfy a given linear numerical pattern (expressed algebraically); then plot the ordered pairs and draw the line
Definition of Ordered Pair
Definition of Plot
Equation of a Straight Line
Calculate the Straight Line Graph
☐ Solve systems of equations graphically (only linear, integer solutions, y=mx+b format, no vertical/horizontal lines)
Function Grapher and Calculator
Systems of Linear Equations
☐ Distinguish between linear and nonlinear equations ax2 + bx + c; a=1 (only graphically)
Function Grapher and Calculator
Graph of an Equation
☐ Create a graph given a description or an expression for a situation involving a linear or nonlinear relationship
Equation Grapher
☐ Determine the slope of a line from a graph and explain the meaning of slope as a constant rate of change
Explore the properties of a straight line graph
Equation of a Straight Line
Slope (Gradient) of a Straight Line
Gradient (Slope) of a Straight Line
Linear Equation Test
Definition of Slope
Definition of Gradient
Calculate the Straight Line Graph
Linear Equations
☐ Determine the y-intercept of a line from a graph and be able to explain the y-intercept
Y Intercept of a Straight Line
Definition of Y Intercept
Linear Equation Test
Linear Equations
☐ Graph a line from an equation in slope-intercept form (y=mx+b)
Slope (Gradient) of a Straight Line
Gradient (Slope) of a Straight Line
Y Intercept of a Straight Line
Function Grapher and Calculator
Explore the properties of a straight line graph
Equation of a Straight Line
Linear Equation Test
Calculate the Straight Line Graph
Linear Equations