INCOMING Grade 8:
Summary of work in grade 7
1) developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships
2) developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations
3) solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume
4) drawing inferences about populations based on samples.
Focus areas coming up in grade 8 (in addition to a thorough review of major concepts from 7th grade):
1) formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations;
2) grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships;
3) analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem.
Summary of work in grade 7
1) developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships
2) developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations
3) solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume
4) drawing inferences about populations based on samples.
Focus areas coming up in grade 8 (in addition to a thorough review of major concepts from 7th grade):
1) formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations;
2) grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships;
3) analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem.
Common Core Standards links
8th grade overview (including a look at Mathematical Practices):
8th grade CCSS introduction
3 year progression & road map: The Council of the Great City Schools has created Parent Roadmaps to provide guidance to parents about what their child will be learning in Mathematics and how they can support that learning. These parent roadmaps also provide three-year snapshots showing how selected standards progress from year to year:
Parent Roadmaps
* at the end of the 8th grade Roadmap, there are also other suggestions / links for student practice
8th grade overview (including a look at Mathematical Practices):
8th grade CCSS introduction
3 year progression & road map: The Council of the Great City Schools has created Parent Roadmaps to provide guidance to parents about what their child will be learning in Mathematics and how they can support that learning. These parent roadmaps also provide three-year snapshots showing how selected standards progress from year to year:
Parent Roadmaps
* at the end of the 8th grade Roadmap, there are also other suggestions / links for student practice