8.8 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.

• Approximating Square Roots
• Calculating Unknown Side Lengths
• Identifying Rational and Irrational Numbers

• Prior Skills and Concepts

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

• Exploring Triangles
• Off the Grid, Part 2
• Calculating Areas of Triangles
• Powers
• Exponent Expressions
• Squares and Cubes
• Evaluating Expressions With Exponents
• Polygon Maker
• Converting Between Fractions, Percents, and Decimals
• Decimal Deep Dive

• Extensions

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

• Square Roots and Cube Roots
• The Pythagorean Theorem
• Rational and Irrational Numbers

• Personalized Learning

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

• Side Lengths of Tilted Squares
• Finding Distances on the Coordinate Plane

• 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.