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Khan Academy: 8th Grade Math

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Middle school math concepts broken into digestible parts

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The tutorials include videos and questions that cover many 8th grade math concepts.
Short videos offer support, and provide direct instruction on math concepts.
Activities not only help teach, but check for students' understanding.
If kids get stuck they can view up to four hints.
Kids and teachers both have dashboards to track Mission progress.

How Can I Teach with This Tool?

Khan's 8th Grade Math content is best used as a support for good classroom instruction. In class, it's best for kids of this age to learn socially, with both peers and teachers. As such, Khan's best use here may be at home, where kids can sometimes get stuck. Using content from the 8th Grade Mission, you can further personalize kids' at-home work.

With that said, if you're targeting some more specific eighth-grade skills in class, you might want to use some of the tutorials in your daily instruction and activities. Using your dashboard, you can identify points of struggle, either for individual students or your whole class, to help target your reteaching efforts. This may be particularly helpful in classrooms where students have a broad range of abilities. These tools for differentiation can make it easier to provide all your students -- those struggling as well as those more advanced -- the tools they'll need to thrive in next year's high school math classes.

Standouts:

  • Recognizing Rational and Irrational Numbers: Watch a video comparing these two types of numbers; drag and drop examples to see if you understand the difference.
  • Angles Formed by Parallel Lines and Transversals: Although a bit rough, this video guides viewers through the concept. Be patient –- while the ideas are accurate, it may take a while to get to the point. Note: While the standard, and the site's checks for understanding, refer to angles as "congruent," the video uses different vocabulary.

Full Disclosure: Khan Academy and Common Sense Education share funders; however, those relationships do not impact Common Sense Education's editorial independence and this learning rating.

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Key Standards Supported

Expressions And Equations

  • 8.EE.7

    Solve linear equations in one variable.

  • 8.EE.8

    Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.

  • 8.EE.5

    Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.

  • 8.EE.6

    Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y = mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.

  • 8.EE.1

    Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. For example, 32 × 3–5 = 3–3 = 1/33 = 1/27.

  • 8.EE.2

    Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x2 = p and x3 = p, where p is a positive rational number. Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes. Know that √2 is irrational.

  • 8.EE.3

    Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3 × 108 and the population of the world as 7 × 109, and determine that the world population is more than 20 times larger.

  • 8.EE.4

    Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.

Functions

  • 8.F.1

    Understand that a function is a rule that assigns to each input exactly one output. The graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs consisting of an input and the corresponding output.1

  • 8.F.2

    Compare properties of two functions each represented in a different way (algebraically, graphically, numerically in tables, or by verbal descriptions). For example, given a linear function represented by a table of values and a linear function represented by an algebraic expression, determine which function has the greater rate of change.

  • 8.F.3

    Interpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give examples of functions that are not linear. For example, the function A = s2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line.

  • 8.F.4

    Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph. Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values.

  • 8.F.5

    Describe qualitatively the functional relationship between two quantities by analyzing a graph (e.g., where the function is increasing or decreasing, linear or nonlinear). Sketch a graph that exhibits the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally.

Geometry

  • 8.G.9

    Know the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

  • 8.G.6

    Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.

  • 8.G.7

    Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.

  • 8.G.8

    Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system.

  • 8.G.5

    Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles, about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and the angle-angle criterion for similarity of triangles. For example, arrange three copies of the same triangle so that the sum of the three angles appears to form a line, and give an argument in terms of transversals why this is so.

Statistics And Probability

  • 8.SP.1

    Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Describe patterns such as clustering, outliers, positive or negative association, linear association, and nonlinear association.

  • 8.SP.2

    Know that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables. For scatter plots that suggest a linear association, informally fit a straight line, and informally assess the model fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the line.

  • 8.SP.3

    Use the equation of a linear model to solve problems in the context of bivariate measurement data, interpreting the slope and intercept. For example, in a linear model for a biology experiment, interpret a slope of 1.5 cm/hr as meaning that an additional hour of sunlight each day is associated with an additional 1.5 cm in mature plant height.

  • 8.SP.4

    Understand that patterns of association can also be seen in bivariate categorical data by displaying frequencies and relative frequencies in a two-way table. Construct and interpret a two-way table summarizing data on two categorical variables collected from the same subjects. Use relative frequencies calculated for rows or columns to describe possible association between the two variables. For example, collect data from students in your class on whether or not they have a curfew on school nights and whether or not they have assigned chores at home. Is there evidence that those who have a curfew also tend to have chores?

The Number System

  • 8.NS.1

    Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.

  • 8.NS.2

    Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., π2). For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of √2, show that √2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.

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