This year we will continue to build and expand off concepts you began exploring in 7th grade, including working with variables, linear equations, and exponential growth. We will learn through a combination of hands-on investigations, based on the Connected Math Curriculum you have used in 6th and 7th grade math, where you work together to develop new understandings, and from traditional algebra text books that explain directly how and why we solve certain problems in different ways.
Our year together in math will be focused on the journey to understanding, rather than just getting the "right answer." I am excited to welcome a class of unique students and appreciate that each of you has your own strengths, and ways of understanding math, as well as your own challenges. This year we will focus on how can we share our thinking and understanding with one another to become better problem solvers.
I am very happy to welcome you to the beginning of our special journey together this year in 8th grade math!
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