Math Strategies 8 provides support for students based on prior mathematics performances. Students receive targeted instruction in mathematics, producing greater understanding and success. The curriculum is aligned to 8th grade math and allows for more individualization based on students’ needs.

• Full Year Course
• Administrator or Counselor placement based on 5th STAAR Math score and classroom performance

Math 8 primary focal areas include number and operations; proportionality; expressions, equations, and relationships; and measurement and data. Students use concepts, algorithms, and properties of real numbers to explore mathematical relationships and to describe increasingly complex situations and connect multiple representations of relationships. Students communicate information about geometric figures or situations by quantifying attributes, generalize procedures from measurement experience, and use the procedures to
solve problems.

• Full Year Course

Algebra I primary focal areas center on the study of linear, quadratic, and exponential functions and their related transformations, equations, and associated solutions in both mathematical and real-world situations. In addition, students will study polynomials of degree
one and two, radical expressions, sequences, and laws of exponents. Students will generate and solve linear systems with two equations and two variables and will create new functions through transformations. The course addresses the remaining Grade 8 Math TEKS and
extends beyond the state Algebra I standards as students develop key concepts fundamental to Advanced Placement and college credit-bearing courses. Successful completion of the course earns one high school math credit.

• Full Year Course
• Prerequisite: PreAP Math 7