Grade 8Math: Expressions and Equations and Number System
Use the information below to get a deeper understanding of what your child has mastered and areas where your child may need more help. There are also resources you can use to find activities to support your child’s learning at home.
Help can I help my child progress?
Next Steps
Here are some exercises you can work on at home with your Grade 8 student.
Below Mastery
With your student, identify examples of irrational numbers, such as pi and e; show how buying movie tickets at $10 each is a proportional relationship; and solve y = 2x + 3 when x = 1.
At or Near Mastery
With your student, use decimal approximations to compare the sizes of 3 times pi and 10, and draw graphs of proportional relationships such as distance over time when traveling at a set speed.
Above Mastery
With your student, determine possible numbers of hot dogs and hamburgers sold if hot dogs cost $2.50 each, hamburgers cost $3.75 each, and the total sales are $130. Plot the solutions on a graph.
Talking With Your Child's Teacher
This document titled “Moving Forward: A Guide for Conversations with Your Child’s Teacher” includes helpful tips and questions to discuss with the teacher about your child’s classroom performance, academic progress, and more.
Additional Free Resources Available to Support Your Child's Learning
Use this information to have a meaningful conversation with your child’s teacher about the skills and content in the grade level and to support your child’s learning at home.
What Can I Do to Help My Child?
Talking with your child's teacher
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