Prerequisite skills on rational numbers

Integer operations

The following video demonstrates the reason why some of the integer rules are as they are and how to apply the rules for addition and subtraction of integers.

Rational numbers checkpoint

The following video demonstrates how to order rational numbers. It demonstrates how we can answer our questions from the checkpoint.

How to find the rule for the nth position of a sequence

Today we learned how to find the nth position of a sequence.

Multiple Representations verbal to equation, table, and graph

The following video shows examples of how to convert a verbal situation to a table, graph and equation.

Equation to table

Today we wrote an equation based on the table. We used the following pdf.

Homework: writing an equation from a verbal description

Tonight the eighth grade students should write an equation for the following situations:
1.Eight times a number equals 64.
2.A number divided by 9 equals 108.
3.The difference between the number of boys, b, and 13 girls is 4.
4. The amount of money Horace made this week, m, is twice the amount of money he made last week.