Grade 8 - BC Math - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 8 BC Math Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Financial Literacy Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Mental math concepts – multiplying by 0.1 and 0.01 (10% and 1%)
• Calculating percentages – 10% and 15% using mental math strategies (half of 10%)
• Mental math strategies – using 0.1 to determine 1% and use that to determine 3%
• Calculating sale prices (25% off, 30% off)
• Calculating sales tax (12%) for things in BC
• Calculating the sales tax in real world situations (word problems)
• Estimating sales tax
• Calculating a tip in a restaurant
• Interest rates – borrowing and investing
• Simple interest vs compound interest
• Cost of borrowing over time
• Earnings actualized by investing long-term (compound interest)
• Using compound interest calculators online to see the power of compound interest
• Earnings actualized by investing long-term (compound interest)
• Comparing fixed-rate loans and variable-rate loans
• Determining when fixed-rate or variable-rate loans are better for different scenarios
• Income tax (gross/net income)
• Hands-on Activities: Memory Game: Matching Equivalent Fractions, Do Rewards Really Reward You?.
• Exit Cards x 4
• Unit Test - Financial Literacy 
• Check out a preview of this resource to see how it will benefit you and your students. 

Statistics Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Determining the mean, median, mode, and range of multiple data sets
• Finding the missing data point in a data set using the mean
• Determining outliers in a data set and explaining what outliers could represent
• Determining the effect of outliers in data sets on the mean, median and mode
• Understanding when to use each measure of central tendency to report findings
• Interpreting bar graphs, broken-line graphs, multiple-bar graphs, and circles graphs
• Creating bar graphs, broken-line graphs, and circle graphs
• Drawing conclusions about different sets of data
• Determining the mean, median, and mode from data presented in tables and graphs
• Thinking critically about misleading graphs
• Using fractions, decimals, and percents to represent the probability of multiple independent events
• Understanding the difference between theoretical and experimental probability
• Identifying the sample space (number of total outcomes) for experiments involving two independent events
• Comparing theoretical and experimental probabilities of independent and dependent events
• Using tree diagrams to represent independent events
• Using Venn diagrams to solve probability problems
• Hands-on Activities: Task Cards: Mean Detective, Research Activity: Graph Hunter, Flip the Data, Truth or Lie? Graph Edition, Math Hot Seat: Probability Showdown.
• Exit Cards x 10
• 2 Unit Tests

Measuring Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Determine the surface area of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms and cylinders
• Use nets to calculate the surface area of 3D objects
• Calculate the area of circles and semi-circles
• Calculate the volume of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and cylinders
• Use the area of the base of 3D objects to calculate volume
• Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine if a triangle is a right triangle
• Use the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the length of a side on a right triangle
• First Peoples constellations - Pythagorean theorem
• Draw 3D objects using nets
• Construct nets that represent 3D objects
• Represent 3D objects by drawing them as nets on a grid
• Drawing top, front, and side views of objects
• Draw objects using top, front, and side views of objects
• Create 3D objects using top, front, and side views
• Drawing top, front, and side views of Bentwood Boxes
• Isometric drawings of 3D objects
• Cavalier and cabinet drawings
• Perspective drawings using one-point perspectives and multiple vanishing points
• Hands-on Activities: Math Race: Circumference, Radius, Diameter, and Area, Circle Area Discovery, Scavenger Hunt: Volume of Rectangular Prisms, Cylinder Volume Toss Challenge, Math Tic-Tac-Toe: Pythagorean Challenge, 3D Shape Exploration.
• Exit Cards x 10
• 3 Unit Tests

Number Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Perfect squares and square roots
• Estimating square roots of numbers that are not perfect squares
• Visuals of square roots/perfect squares – area and number lines
• Cube roots and cubed integers
• Converting fractions, decimal numbers, and percents
• Understanding percents greater than 100
• Understanding percents less than 1 (percentages in decimals)
• Rate and ratio
• Equivalent rates
• Identifying proportional and non-proportional relationships in various situations.
• Beading and percent patterns using proportions
• Proportional sharing of harvests
• Determining the value of a missing value in a ratio
• 3-Term Ratios – Beading
• Converting mixed numbers and improper fractions
• Simplifying fractions
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions using models and rules
• Multiplying fractions using repeated addition and number lines
• Word problems for all basic concepts for students to apply their understanding
• Hands-on Activities: Square Root Hopscotch, Task Cards: Square Root Operations, Beading and Percent Patterns, Memory Game: Matching Equivalent Rates, Math Hot Seat: Addition Challenge, Multiplication Race, Quiz Creator Competition: Fraction Division Challenge.
• Exit Cards x 13
• Answer pages for all activity sheets!
• 3 Unit Tests

Patterning and Equations Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Basics of linear relationships (two-variable relations)
• Writing expressions that represents patterns
• Identifying linear relationships displayed as graphs and in tables of values
• Creating tables of values that represent patterns
• Creating graphs from tables of values (scale values)
• Graphing linear patterns using four quadrants
• Determining linear equations that represent patterns
• representing linear equations using ordered pairs
• Graphing ordered pairs to display linear equations
• Determining the missing values in ordered pairs based on linear equations and pictorial patterns
• Solving problems arising in real-life situations using linear equations
• Expressions vs equations (difference between expressions vs equations)
• Evaluating expressions using substitution
• Solving two-step equations
• Solving expressions and equations using negative integers
• Modelling the preservation of equality (balance beams, diagrams, algebra tiles)
• Answer pages
• Hands-on Activities: Algebra Jeopardy, Algebraic Adventure Hunt, Task Cards: Patterning – All Operations, Finger Signals Quiz - Understanding Algebraic Expressions, Matching Game: Do The Equations Match?, Math Tic-Tac-Toe: Balance The Equations, Decimal Multiplication Race, Math Hot Seat: Evaluating Equations, Math Basketball: Linear Equations Challenge, Algebraic Bottle Flip Challenge.
• Exit Cards x 14
• 2 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 8 - Google Lesson Slides - BC Math Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 8, BC Math Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.