🔢 Grade 8 Math

Units

1. Unit 1

   🟦Squares, Cubes & Roots

   Knowing perfect squares and cubes, finding square roots and cube roots, estimating where a square root falls between whole numbers, and linking squares to the area of a square.

   Outcome: N8.1 · squares and square roots of whole numbers

2. Unit 2

   💯Percents & Money

   Finding a percent of a number, moving between fractions, decimals and percents, sale prices and sales tax (BC's 12%), simple monthly budgets, and making change.

   Outcome: N8.2 · percents, including fractional and decimal percents

3. Unit 3

   ⚖️Ratios, Rates & Proportions

   Simplifying ratios, finding missing terms in equivalent ratios, comparing unit prices, working with speed, scaling recipes and map distances, and turning a part of a whole into a percent.

   Outcome: N8.3 · rates, ratios and proportional reasoning

4. Unit 4

   🍕Fraction Operations

   Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, multiplying and dividing fractions, switching between mixed numbers and improper fractions, and finding a fraction of an amount.

   Outcome: N8.4 · multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbers

5. Unit 5

   ➖Integer Operations

   Multiplying and dividing positive and negative integers, adding and subtracting them, working with the order of operations, and solving real-life problems such as temperature changes.

   Outcome: N8.5 · multiplying and dividing integers

6. Unit 6

   📉Growing & Shrinking Patterns

   Finding the constant rate and initial value of a pattern, comparing patterns, writing a rule such as 5n + 2 or 40 − 3n, and using the rule to predict later terms.

   Outcome: P8.1 · linear relations in tables, graphs and equations

7. Unit 7

   📈Patterns & Two-Step Equations

   Writing and evaluating expressions like 3n + 2, solving two-step equations, and finding the rule for a growing pattern or a cost made of whole items such as tickets.

   Outcome: P8.1, P8.2 · linear relations and solving linear equations

8. Unit 8

   📐Pythagorean Theorem

   Finding a missing side of a right triangle, checking whether a triangle is a right triangle, and using the theorem for ladders and diagonals.

   Outcome: SS8.1 · the Pythagorean theorem

9. Unit 9

   📦Surface Area & Volume

   Finding surface area and volume of boxes, cubes, triangular prisms and cylinders, working backwards to a missing dimension, linking cm³ to millilitres, and recognizing nets and views of 3D objects.

   Outcome: SS8.2, SS8.3 · surface area and volume of right prisms and cylinders

10. Unit 10

    🪞Tessellations & Transformations

    Why some shapes tessellate, naming the transformations in a tiling, and finding the image of a point after a translation, reflection, rotation or dilation on a coordinate grid.

    Outcome: SS8.4 · tessellations and transformations

11. Unit 11

    🎲Probability & Data

    Counting outcomes, finding theoretical and experimental probabilities, predicting how often something will happen, and summarizing data with the mean, median and range.

    Outcome: SP8.1, SP8.2 · displaying data, and the probability of independent events