Online Curriculum: Amplify Desmos Math - Grade 8 for Math 8 and Algebra 1 for Algebra
Students can access the curriculum online, either through Amplify Desmos or via Google Classroom.
Parents can access the Caregiver Hub here.
Illustrative Sample Problems: Please use this resource to access some sample problems that relate to each standard. The navigation for this site is great and the resources give a comprehensive overview of the relevant mathematics. This is also a great resource to check out the types of questions that will be explored in grades six through eight.
Desmos Online Graphing Calculator: this is a free online graphing calculator that can be used as a regular calculator or to graph any sort of equation!
Khan Academy: this website provides instructional videos on concepts, as well as practice problems with answers.
WolframAlpha Table of Values: If you need to fill in a lengthy table, this website can help you do it!
Math Antics: offers help on tons of topics through short videos.
Dr. Math: Dr. Math offers help on many topics.
Purplemath: offers help on many topics!
Virtual Manipulatives: Virtual Manipulatives to help solve problems.
Kuta Software: this website provides free worksheets with answers keys based on topics ranging from Pre-Algebra to Calculus!
MathIsFun.com: Some students may find the explanations and examples on this website helpful. It covers much of what we will do this year.
Brilliant.org: A site that provides a problem of the day and some really nice challenge problems over a range of topics.
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Articles:
Book Recommendations:
Old Dog, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents by Rob Eastaway and Rob Askew
Other Parent Resources can be found here
Fiction:
Giant Pumpkin Suite by Melanie Heuiser Hill
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman
Leonardo Da-Vinci Gets a Do-Over by Mark Friedlander
Ruby Redfort Feel the Fear by Lauren Child
A Gebra Named Al by Wendy Isdell
For Parents:
Old Dog, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents by Rob Eastaway and Rob Askew
Math Puzzles:
The Theory of Remainders by Andrea Rothbart