Grade 8/Algebra I Unit Resources

Preparing to Teach

• Unit Preparation
• Planning an Investigation
• Discourse and Collaboration: Teacher Strategies
• Discourse and Collaboration: Supporting Students
• Student Work and Notebooks
• Using Technology
• CMP Lesson Structure - Launch, Explore, Summary
• Assessments in CMP
• Meeting Students' Needs, General Support

8-1 Thinking with Math Models

• Focus Questions
• Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Virtual Bridge Experiment, Climbing Monkeys
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.2 Explore - Bridge Length and Strength
  • Problem 1.2 Summary - Bridge Length and Strength
  • Problem 2.3 Explore - Tree Top Fun
  • Problem 5.2 Summary - Politics of Girls and Boys: Analyzing Data in Two-Way Tables
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-2 Looking for Pythagoras

• Focus Questions
• Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Interactive Pythagoras, Painted Cubes
• Arc of Learning
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.4 Launch - Cube Roots
  • Problem 3.3 Launch - Finding Distances
  • Problem 3.3 Explore - Finding Distances
  • Problem 3.3 Summary - Finding Distances
  • Problem 3.2 Launch - A Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
  • Problem 5.2 Summary - Analyzing Triangles
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-3 Growing, Growing, Growing

• Focus Questions
• Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Student Work from Problem 2.1: Killer Plant Strikes Lake Victoria
• Arc of Learning
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.1 Explore - Making Ballots: Introducing Exponential Functions
  • Problem 3.2 Summary - Investing for the Future: Growth Rate
  • Problem 4.1 Launch - Making Smaller Ballots: Introducing Exponential Decay
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-4 Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes

• Focus Questions
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Shawn Towle demonstrates the CMP Activity Painted Cubes
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Painted Cubes
• Student Work from Investigation 2
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.1 Explore - Trading Land: Representing Areas of Rectangle
  • Problem 3.2 Explore - Counting Handshakes: Another Quadratic Function
  • Problem 4.1 Launch - Tracking a Ball: Interpreting a Table and an Equation
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-5 Butterflies, Pinwheels, and Wallpaper

• Focus Questions
• Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Transformations, Tessellations, Hubcap Maker
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.4 Summary - Properties of Transformations
  • Problem 3.5 Launch - Parallel Lines, Transversals, and Angle Sums
  • Problem 4.2 Explore - Return of Super Sleuth: Similarity Transformations
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-6 Say It With Symbols

• Focus Questions
• Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Shawn Towle demonstrates  the CMP Activity Pouring and Filling
• Using Realize/Dash Activities - Pouring and Filling
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.3 Explore - The Community Pool Problem: Interpreting Expressions
  • Problem 3.3 Launch - Factoring Quadratic Equations
  • Problem 4.3 Explore - Generating Patterns: Linear, Exponential, Quadratic
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-7 It's In The System

• Focus Questions
• Grade 8 Scope and Sequence
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 2.2 Launch - Taco Truck Lunch
  • Problem 3.3 Summary - Operating at a Profit: Systems of Line and Curves
  • Meeting Students' Needs

8-8 Function Junction

• Focus Questions
• Algebra I Scope and Sequence
• Teacher and Classroom Connection Videos
  • Problem 1.5 Summary - Inverse Functions
  • Problem 3.4 Explore - Getting From Here to There: Transforming y=x2
  • Meeting Students' Needs