Dobbins Middle School - 8th Grade Math

Welcome to my 8th grade math blog.


It will serve as my primary means of keeping you informed about your child's math class. I encourage you to visit often to stay abreast as we move through the 8th grade Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS).



STANDARDS

For an overview of 8th grade math standards and student editions of the frameworks:

I will update this page with the standards as we progress through the units.

Unit 1: KEY STANDARDS
Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.

MCC8.G.1 Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations:
a. Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length.
b. Angles are taken to angles of the same measure.
c. Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.

MCC8.G.2 Understand that a twodimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.

MCC8.G.3 Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on twodimensional figures using coordinates.

MCC8.G.4 Understand that a twodimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar twodimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.

MCC8.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 angleangle criterion for similarity of triangles. For example, arrange three copies of the same triangle so that the three angles appear to form a line, and give an argument in terms of transversals why this is so.