Eighth grade mathematics includes a review and a more in-depth, rigorous study of the concepts and skills presented in the seventh grade. Emphasis is placed on problem solving techniques, meaning of negative numbers, fractions in expressions and equations, proportional reasoning, graphing, constructing numerical equations, variables, measurement concepts, tables, and probability and statistics to make predictions. The focus of the eighth grade curriculum is to prepare students for high school mathematics, especially Algebra I, by analyzing proportional and non-proportional relationships. This course will include the appropriate use of graphing technology. 

Algebra I This course will emphasize the study of linear functions. Student will use functions to represent, model, analyze, and interpret relationships in problem situations. Topics include graphing, solving equations and inequalities, and systems of linear equations. Quadratic and nonlinear functions will be introduced. This course grants high school credit, which may be applied toward one of the four required high school math courses. Grade 8 Algebra I will be factored into the student’s overall high school grade average/GPA, and the course will become a permanent part of the student’s high school transcript.