Math-Science is based on the Utah State Core for Science. Click here to see the 8th grade Core for Science. In addition to the regular 8th grade science core for Utah, how to learn, problem solving, and engineering solutions to problems, we will also cover the following items:
How to solve problems by converting units (Skills needed: know how to multiply fractions)
Moles (Skills needed: converting units)
Solving practical equations (Skills needed: Solve for x in an equation)
In Defense of Food- This is a book we will read during our Ecology unit. It requires no special skills beyond reading and thinking about what you read. We read portions of this book to examine our eating habits in the modern world as part of the ecology we have created for ourselves. We also analyze what science can and cannot tell us about something so basic as what we should eat.