Alberta Grade 8 math worksheets

Show perfect squares and their square roots with tiles, drawings and symbols, for whole numbers.

Estimate the square root of a whole number that is not a perfect square, using nearby perfect squares.

Work with percents of any size, including fractional percents, percents over 100 and percent increase or decrease.

Describe and write ratios with two or three terms, and rates, comparing parts with each other or with the whole, and as fractions or percents.

Solve problems with rates, ratios and proportions, such as unit prices, scale and speed.

Multiply and divide positive fractions and mixed numbers, with models, drawings and symbols, and use them to solve problems.

Multiply and divide integers using models and symbols, and explain the sign of the answer.

Make tables and graphs of linear relations in two variables, match equations to graphs, and read the graph to solve problems.

Write and solve linear equations with integers, from ax = b up to a(x + b) = c, using models, drawings and symbols.

Show why the Pythagorean theorem holds, and use it to find a missing side or to check for a right angle.

Draw nets for prisms, pyramids and cylinders, and tell which object a net will fold into.

Find how much surface covers a right rectangular prism, right triangular prism or right cylinder, and use it in real problems.

Work out and use volume formulas for right rectangular prisms, right triangular prisms and right cylinders.

Draw and read the top, front and side views of objects built from rectangular prisms, and build an object from its views.

Decide whether polygons are congruent by matching their sides and angles.

Judge whether a circle graph, line graph, bar graph or pictograph shows its data fairly, and say how to improve it.

Find and use the probability that two independent events both happen.