This course addresses the Washington State Learning Standards for Mathematics by developing students' abilities to problem solve, reason, and communicate like mathematicians through the Standards for Mathematical Practice and focusing deeply on the Grade 8 Standards for Mathematical Content.
In 8th Grade, instructional time should focus on four critical areas: (1) deepening knowledge of the number system to include irrational numbers and rational approximations; (2) expressions and equations work with radicals and integer exponents along with proportional relationships, linear equations and systems of equations; (3) evaluation, comparison, and modeling of functions, and (4) geometry, including congruency, similarity, cylinders, cones, spheres, and the Pythagorean Theorem.