8th Grade Math Objectives Month-by-Month
August
- Specify number place value
- Read/write whole numbers
- Construct a number line
- Round whole numbers
- Add/subtract word problems
- Multiply/divide powers of ten
- Specify points, lines, and rays
- Evaluate word problems
- Recall prime/composite numbers
- Evaluate 3 digit divisors
- Expand/reduce fractions
- Convert fractions to decimals
- Convert decimals to fractions
- Calculate rectangular area
- Cancel product of primes
September
- Multiply/divide fractions
- Identify multiples
- Average numbers
- Multiple fractional factors
- Calculate with metric units
- Calculate area as a difference
- Calculate mean, median, mode, range
- Find area of triangles
- Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers
- Assemble and analyze graphs
- Find least common multiples
- Adding fractions
- Calculate order of operations
- Evaluate with variables
- Calculate with multiple unit multipliers
- Add / subtract with mixed numbers
- Calculate rate word problems
October
- Calculate rate word problems
- Calculate equations
- Calculate equivalent equations
- Understand addition rule
- Recognize reciprocals
- Explain multiplication/division rule
- Find overall average
- Calculate with parenthesis
- Divide in "Order of Operations"
- Calculate exponents/roots
- Calculate volume
- Evaluate exponential expressions with radicals
- Find fractional parts
- Calculate surface area
- Discuss brackets
- Show scientific notation
- Calculate decimal part of numbers
- Solve with fractions and symbols of inclusion
- Find %
- Calculate Ratio and Proportion
- Convert decimals, fractions, and percent
- Solve equations with mixed numbers
November
- Solve mixed number problems
- Calculate distance
- Solve proportions with fractions
- Calculate circumference and define pi
- Solve equations using both rules
- Solve fractional parts
- Changing rates
- Calculate semicircles
- Solve proportions with mixed numbers
- Calculate ratio word problems
December
- Calculate forms of %
- Evaluate negative numbers
- Adding signed numbers
- Visualizing signed numbers
- Calculate powers and roots of fractions
- Graph inequalities
- Calculate volume of right circular cylinders
- Insert parenthesis
- Solve implied ratios
January
- Multiply with scientific notation
- Solve % greater than 100
- Multiply/divide signed numbers
- Calculate algebraic addition
- Solve increase in %
- Show opposites
- Evaluate with signed numbers
- Solve rate problems as ratio
- Use negative coefficients
- Calculate algebraic phrases
- Calculate surface area of right solid
- Use symbols of negation
- Calculate number word problems
- Solve operations with signed numbers
- Solve roots with the "cut and try" method
- Solve order of division
- Add like terms with two terms
- Solve 2-step problems
- Examine unequal quantities
- Calculate exponents with signed numbers
- Solve advanced ratio
February
- Multiply with exponential expression
- Add like terms with more than two terms
- Use the distributive property
- Estimate higher root
- Evaluate roots of negative numbers
- Solve % as a rate
- Recall roman numerals
- Solve % word problems
- Convert complex decimal numbers
- Figure simple and compound interest
- Figure mark up and mark down
- Figure commission profit
- Understand complementary and supplementary angles
- Measure angles
- Construct angles
- Find probability
March
- Understand similar triangles
- Find probability of independent events
- Solve multiple term equations
- Name polygons
- Find area of parallelograms and trapezoid
- Draw perpendicular bisectors
- Construct triangles
April
- Use unit multipliers to convert (Cubed)
- Add in base 2
- Convert metric volume
- Plot coordinates
May
- Find volume of pyramids, cones, and spheres
- Solve advanced equations
- Form solids
- Locate symmetry
- Solve permutations
- Add in base 10 and base 2
- Graph lines
- Complete Algebra I entry program
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