Eighth Grade

Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers.

• Models of Square Numbers

Work with radicals and integer exponents.

Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.

• Time Trials
• Measuring Lines
• Ball Bounce
• The Thick of Things
• Ready, Set, Flip
• Stacking Cups
• Let's Party!
• Functioning With Knots
• Bungee Dolls
• Shadow Lines

Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations.

• What's in a Case?
• Equality in the Balance
• Pogo Stick Paths
• Books Upon Books
• Sales Calls
• Calling Long Distance
• Stacking Cups
• Let's Party!
• Functioning With Knots

Define, evaluate, and compare functions.

• Let's Party!
• Books Upon Books
• Color Tiles
• Stacking Cups
• Functioning With Knots
• Rocket Shot
• Cliff Diving
• BASE Jumping
• A Swing in Time

Use functions to model relationships between quantities.

• Pattern Block Functions
• Functions in Circles
• Books Upon Books
• Stacking Cups
• Ready, Set, Flip
• Functioning With Knots
• Rocket Shot
• Cliff Diving
• BASE Jumping
• A Swing in Time

Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.

• Growing Designs
• Hat Tricks
• Capture the Flag
• Transformers

Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

• The Pythagorean Relationship (Essential Math Book)
• Geoboard Formulas: Pythagoras
• Triangles of Squares
• Working Backwards with Geometry Formulas: Pythagoras
• Pythagorean Relationship, Part One
• Pythagorean Relationship, Part Two
• Square Root the Carpenter’s way
• Probably Pythagorean

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones and spheres.

• Measurement of Prisms, Pyramids, and Cones (Essential Math Book)
• Filling Formulas
• Puzzling Pyramids

Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data.

• Close to Ideal?
• Ball Bounce
• Head Size to Hat Size
• Hats, Heads, and Height
• Bungee Dolls
• Who's Right