8th - 9th Grade Math

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Online Calculators

• White's Higher Arithmetic (answers are in the back of the book)
• Wikipedia Article on Algebra
• WikiBooks Algebra Book
• Introduction to Algebra
• Essentials of Algebra Pt 1
• Math Work Report Form (for your records)
• Download Algebra help program
• High School Ace - helpful with all high school math topics
•       Alternative Texts The First Course of Algebra
•                                      The Second Course of Algebra
• Alternate Math Texts in VHI vLibrary
• Amusements in Mathematics (fun math book)
• Easy Algebra Equations Game
• Amazon.com Algebra (books) **You do not have to buy these books. Amazon books are an option and may be used to help with your math homeschool work. We suggest you choose the used option and save money. VHI does not benefit from Amazon.com sales.
• Virtual Math Manipulatives (online simulations Pre-12)

Topics to be covered this year

• Maintaining skills in fundamental operations
• Factoring and products
• Sets and simple sentences
• Numeration systems and more numeration systems
• Using fractions and decimals
• Ratio, proportion, and percent
• Equalities and inequalities
• Simple formulas and equations
• Graphing an equation
• Powers and roots of rational numbers
  
  • more info on square roots
  • (optional battleships exponents game)
  • (optional asteroids exponents game)
• Polynomials
• Metric and nonmetric geometry (note: "metric" refers to measuring)
  
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Scale drawing
• Right-triangle trigonometry (another explanation clearer but longer)
  
• Customary  measurement (vocabulary and practice game 1, game 2, game 3)
  
  • inches, feet, yards, and miles
  • teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons
  • ounces, pounds, tons
• Metric measurement
• Permutations
• Probability  (more info and a demonstration)
• Statistics
• Statistical terms (and more terms defined, which can also be listed in suggested learning order)
  
• Mathematics of insurance, banking, and taxes
  • (common cents for grades 9-12 has relevant games for banking and insurance)

Extras

• Stock market and investing (or alternate site)
• Dr Math
• Math Worksheets
• Explanations and practice for most math topics
• Philosophy and Fun of Algebra
•       Alternative Texts The First Course of Algebra
•                                      The Second Course of Algebra

links verified 4/13/06