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What we will be learning Quarter 1
Your student will learn about the real number system. Some of the skills your student will practice are: • the absolute value of a number • writing rational numbers in fractional form, and as terminating or repeating decimals • identifying and using significant digits In addition your student will learn about operations with rational numbers. These skills include: • adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers • finding the distance between two integers on a number line • using the order of operations with integers • adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing rational numbers in fraction or decimal form • solving real-world problems using operations with integers, fractions, and decimals |
What we will be learning Quarter 1
Your student will learn about expressions involving exponents. Some of the skills your student will practice • understanding exponential notation • writing the prime factorization of a number • using properties of exponents, such as the product of powers property and the quotient of powers property • simplifying expressions with zero and negative exponents • solving real-world problems involving exponents Also this Quarter, your student will learn about scientific notation. These skills include: • writing numbers in scientific notation and converting numbers between scientific notation and standard form • adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers written in scientific notation • solving real-world problems using numbers in scientific notation Here are some links to help you understand scientific notation In your math notebook, please answer the following two questions. What is scientific notation? Why is scientific notation helpful to scientists and other people that work with very, very large or small numbers? Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Source 4 Formula for scientific notation Real Life Examples of Scientific Notation 8th Grade Project-Writing Standard Form to Scientific Notation Finally, your student will solve linear equations in one or two variables. The skills your student will practice are: • solving linear equations in one variable and solving real-world problems involving linear equations • identifying linear equations with no solutions or with infinitely many solutions • representing a relationship between two variables using a table of values or a linear equation • solving a multi-variable equation for one of its variables Videos/PDF for future Use *Scientific Notation to Standard Form *Negative Exponents and Scientific Notation Cool Video on Multiplying digits- Thanks Christopher for the link |