Framingham Public Schools

Eighth Grade Curriculum Outcomes

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Mathematics / Algebra I

 

Brief Statement of Subject Matter:

Students work with basic operations within the four strands identified by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, and the Framingham Public Schools Mathematics Curriculum. These four strands are:

  • Number and Operation Patterns
  • Functions, and Algebra
  • Geometry and Measurement
  • Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability.

 

General Objectives:
Students engage in problem solving, estimating, communicating, reasoning and connecting in order to:

  • work with the basic operations in arithmetic.
  • use multiple strategies to investigate and solve problems.
  • recognize and formulate problems from real world situations.
  • link mathematics to other curriculum areas.
  • use everyday language to describe mathematical ideas.
  • respond to open-ended and open-response questions related to mathematical concepts.

 

 

MATHEMATICS

Basic Text: IMPACT Mathematics, McGraw Hill Glencoe, 2005

 

Major Units:

  1. Exploring Patterns
  2. Investigating Algebra
  3. Modeling Integers
  4. Exploring the Language of Algebra
  5. Exploring Data and Graphs
  6. Exploring Number Theory

  7. Rational Numbers and Percents
  1. Proportion, Percent and Probability
  2. Real Numbers and Inequalities
  3. Geometry Concepts and Spatial Thinking
  4. Congruence, Similarity, and Transformation
  5. Measurements in Geometry
  6. Exploring Linear Equations

  7. Exploring Data and Polynomials

 

 

ALGEBRA I

Basic Text: Algebra I: An Integrated Approach, McDougal, Littel, 2000

 

Major Units:

  1. Equations and Inequalities
  2. Graphing
  3. Informal Geometry and Problems
  4. Probability
  5. Data Analysis
  6. Matrices
  1. Formulas and Functions
  2. Exponents and Radicals
  3. Polynomials
  4. Quadratics
  5. Proportion and Rational Equations




 

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