Prerequisites: None.
Description:
This is the first secondary mathematics course and is to be taken by all grade 8 students except those who have qualified for Mathematics 8 Enriched. This course is a continuation, in a more formal manner, of the work begun in elementary school.
Objectives Include:
- Developing concepts concretely, pictorially and symbolically.
- Developing mathematical communication skills.
- Developing basic numeracy skills by encouraging students to perform calculations without a calculator.
Course Topics Include:
The following units of study are the ones which will appear on the midyear exam. No calculator will be allowed for these calculations.
- Fractions:review of grade 7 concept, × and ÷ fractions, order of operations, word problems.
- Percent, Ratio, Rate:relating fractions, decimals, and percents, calculating percents, solving percent problems, GST, PST, discount, ratios, equivalent ratios, solving ratio problems.
- Integers: using models to × and ÷ integers, × and ÷ integers, order of operations with integers.
The remaining units of study are the ones which will be taught after the midyear exam.
- Geometry:sketching, drawing & building views of 3D objects, transformations, tessellations.
- Measuring Prisms and Cylinders:review of area, nets, surface area & volume of prisms and cylinders.
- Linear Equations and Graphing:solving equations using models, solving equations using algebra, distributive property, creating a table of values, graphing linear relations.
- Square Roots and the Pythagorean Theorem:square numbers and area models, squares and square roots, measuring line segments, estimating square roots, Pythagoras’ theorem, applications.
- Data Analysis and Probability: choosing and appropriate graph, misrepresenting data, probability.
Textbook: Math Makes Sense 8