🔢 Grade 8 Math

Units

1. Unit 1

   🟦Squares & Square Roots

   Finding squares and square roots of whole numbers, spotting perfect squares, and estimating the square root of other numbers by placing it between two whole numbers.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Number · perfect squares and square roots of whole numbers, and estimating square roots of numbers that are not perfect squares

2. Unit 2

   ⚖️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.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Number · ratios, rates and proportional reasoning

3. Unit 3

   🍕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.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Number · multiplying and dividing positive fractions and mixed numbers

4. Unit 4

   ➖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.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Number · multiplying and dividing integers

5. Unit 5

   📈Tables, Graphs & Linear Relations

   Using an equation like y = 3x + 2 to build a table of values, find a missing x or y, and describe how the variables change together.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Patterns and Relations · ordered pairs, tables of values and graphs of linear relations with whole-number data

6. Unit 6

   🧮Equations with Brackets

   Solving one-variable equations, including ones with brackets and negative numbers, checking by substitution, and spotting a common mistake with the distributive property.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Patterns and Relations · solving linear equations of the forms ax = b, x/a = b, ax + b = c and a(x + b) = c, and checking the solution

7. Unit 7

   📐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.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Shape and Space · developing and applying the Pythagorean theorem

8. Unit 8

   📦Nets & Views

   Matching flat nets to prisms and cylinders, working out what the parts of a net measure, and picturing an object from above, the front and the side.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Shape and Space · nets of right prisms and cylinders, and top, front and side views of objects built from rectangular prisms

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.

   Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Shape and Space · surface area and volume of prisms and cylinders

10. Unit 10

    🔷Congruent Shapes

    Recognizing congruent shapes, matching corresponding sides and angles, and finding the coordinates of a point after a slide, flip or turn.

    Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Shape and Space · congruence of polygons and the coordinates of images after translations, reflections and rotations

11. Unit 11

    🎲Independent Events

    Finding the chance that two separate events both happen, such as a coin toss and a die roll, by multiplying their probabilities.

    Approved guide: Alberta Mathematics K–9 (2007), Statistics and Probability · the probability of two independent events, and verifying with a tree diagram