Functions and Volume

Grades: 8th Grade

• Overview

• 8.5 Unit Overview

• Pre-Unit

• 8.5 Pre-Unit Check

• Sub-Unit 1: Introduction to Functions

  Students learn what a function is and how it is represented in tables, graphs, and equations.

• Turtle Crossing
• Guess My Rule
• Function or Not?
• Dependence Day

• Sub-Unit 2: Representing and Interpreting Functions

  Students create and interpret graphs of functions that represent stories, examining individual points, rates of change, and trends. 

• The Tortoise and the Hare
• Graphing Stories
• Comparing Linear Functions
• Charge!
• Piecing It Together
• 8.5 Practice Day 1
• 8.5 Sub-Unit Quiz

• Sub-Unit 3: Volume

  Students calculate and compare the volumes of cylinders, cones, and spheres.

• Volume Lab
• Cylinders
• Scaling Cylinders
• Cones
• Unknown Dimensions
• Spheres
• 8.5 Practice Day 2

• End-Unit

• 8.5 End-of-Unit Assessments

• Resources

• 8.5 Lesson Practice
• 8.5 Additional Practice
• 8.5 Show What You Knows

• Differentiation and Personalized Learning

• 8.5 Differentiation and Personalized Learning