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Typical Course of Study

8th Grade Mathematics

By Beverly Hernandez, About.com

Annotated links for the typical course of study for to help you cover each topic and check mastery of that skill. This is a work in progress that I assume will take a while to complete. I will be adding links and pages periodically.
  • Maintaining skills in fundamental operations
  • Factoring and products
  • Sets and simple sentences
  • Numeration systems
  • Using fractions and decimals
  • Ratio, proportion, and percent
  • Equalities and inequalities
  • Simple formulas and equations
  • Graphing an equation
  • Powers and roots of rational numbers
  • Polynomials
  • Metric and non-metric geometry
  • Pythagorean Theorem
  • Scale drawing
  • Right-triangle trigonometry
  • Customary and metric measurement
  • Permutations
  • Probability statistics
  • Statistical terms
  • Mathematics of insurance, banking, and taxes
8th Grade Course of Study

Used by permission of World Book

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