8.5 Differentiation and Personalized Learning

Grades: 8th Grade

• Mini-Lessons

  Use these 15-minute, teacher-led small group lessons to support students with a specific concept or skill.

• Justifying Whether a Graph Represents a Function
• Comparing Properties of Linear Functions
• Calculating Volumes of Cylinders

• Prior Skills and Concepts

  Use these resources from prior grades and units to support students with the foundational concepts and skills in this unit.

• Writing Equations from Descriptions and Tape Diagrams
• Flags
• Solutions
• Number Machines
• Seeing Structure
• Turtle Time Trials
• Ups and Downs
• Determining the Circumference of a Circle
• Calculating the Surface Area of Prisms
• Circle Area
• Simple Prisms

• Extensions

  Assign these problems to students who want to extend their thinking or use them with the whole class.

• Introduction to Functions
• Representing and Interpreting Functions
• Volume

• Personalized Learning

  Use this adaptive digital practice to provide personalized scaffolds to students based on what they already know.

• Sketch a Graph of a Function in Context
• Volume of a Cone

• Math Fluency Practice

  Use Fluency Practice activities to strengthen vital math skills, enhance continuous learning, and boost students’ confidence.

• Math Adventures

  Use Math Adventures when students can be independent after finishing classwork, an assessment, or group work.

• Twelve A Dozen

• Item Bank and Additional Activities

  Create custom practice sets tailored to your students' needs using pre-authored standards aligned items. You can find the Item Bank in your Custom Activities or on any blank screen in Activity Builder.