Quality Grade 8 Math Tutoring & Help
Oxford Learning®’s 8th Grade math tutoring program is specifically designed to help students improve their learning by giving them a thorough understanding of all the components of the course and igniting a passion for learning.
Your teen’s Grade 8 math tutor not only teaches math concepts, but also teaches active thinking and math confidence, both essential skills for math success.
At Oxford Learning®, learning is about more than better grades. Our cognitive approach helps teens learn how to learn, a skill that transfers from classroom to classroom. Our personalized Grade 8 math tutoring gives teens the confidence to take their math skills to the next level, for math success this year and every year.
Grade 8 Math Tutoring Subjects
Number Sense/Numeration
- Representing and ordering rational numbers
- Representing numbers using exponential notation
- Solving multi-step problems involving whole numbers and decimals
- Multiplying and dividing fractions and integers
- Multiplying and dividing decimals by the power of 10
- Applying orders of operations using brackets and exponents
- Solving problems involving percentages to one decimal place and percentages greater than 100
- Solving problems involving rates and proportions
Measurement
- Convert from cubic centimetres and metres to millilitres and cubic centimetres
- Develop circumference and area relationships in a circle
- The formula for the volume of a cylinder
- Surface area relationships for cylinders
Geometry & Spatial Sense
- Sorting quadrilaterals by geometric properties involving diagonals
- Constructing circles
- Investigating relationships among similar shapes
- Determining and applying angle relationships for parallel and intersecting lines
- Relating the number of faces
- Edges and vertices of a polyhedron
- The Pythagorean relationship geometrically
- Plotting the image of a point on the coordinate plane after applying a transformation
Algebra & Patterning
- Representing the general term in a linear sequence
- Using one or more algebraic expressions
- Translating statements using algebraic equations
- Finding the term number in a pattern algebraically when given any term
- Solving linear equations involving one-variable terms with integer solutions using a ‘balance’ model
Data Management & Probability
- Collecting categorical, discrete and continuous data
- Organizing data into intervals
- Displaying data using histograms and scatter plots
- Using measures of central tendency to compare sets of data
- Comparing two attributes using data management tools
- Comparing experimental and theoretical probabilities
- Calculating the probability of complementary elements