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Eighth Grade Math Overview
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The Number Sense- Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers.
Expressions and Equations
- Work with radicals and integer exponents.
- Understand the connection between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.
- Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
Functions
- Define, evaluate, and compare functions.
- Use functions to model relationships between quantities.
Geometry
- Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometric software.
- Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.
- Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.
Statistics and Probability
- Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.
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Mathematical Practices
- Make sense of problems and persevere in problem solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.