District Curriculum Overview

Subject: Math                                                       Course: 8th grade math                                                        Grade Level: 8

 

Concepts/Enduring Understandings/Themes

Topics/Units

Content/Skills

Essential Activities/Agreements

The tools of mathematics allow us organize data and make decisions using linear, quadratic, inverse, and exponential relationships

·  Linear Relationships

·  Nonlinear Relationships

·  Statistics

·  Exponential and Quadratic Relationships

·  Be able to recognize and make tables, graphs, and equations (y-form only) of linear, exponential, and quadratic functions.

·  Know the relationship of a ordered pair to tables, graphs, equations, and situations.

·  Be able to find the value of one variable when given the other value using a table, graph, and simple examples with an equation

·  Know how to draw and use a best fit line

·  Be able to make and interpret qualitative graphs.

·  Be able to find and use measures of central tendency

 

·  Motion Detector

The tools of mathematics allow us to make a complex situation easier to understand through simplifying expressions and solving equations

·  Linear Relationships

·  Symbol Manipulation

 

·  Be able to use order of operations to solve problems.

·  Be able to simplify expressions

·  Be able to write equivalent expressions (using area models).

·  Know the distributive, commutative, and associative properties, and how they help us to solve problems.

·  Be able to solve 2-step equations that involve all types of rational numbers.

·  Know how to clearly show work/thinking when simplifying expressions and solving equations.

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·  Algebra Tiles

The tools of mathematics allow us to measure angles and use their properties when navigating and building.

·  Geometry – Angles

·  Geometry – Pythagorean Theorem

 

·  Be able to measure and use angles.

·  Know what an angle is (relationship to 360 degrees)

·  Solve real world problems involving angles.

·  Be able to find the distance between two points on a coordinate grid

·  Be able to demonstrate how the Pythagorean Theorem works.

·  Be able to solve real world problems requiring application of Pythagorean Theorem

 

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