Bear Creek K-8 follows the Jefferson County Public Schools Bridge to Curriculum structure for all math classes. This is a unit based structure with approximately four to six week topics of instruction. 8th graders take one of the three following courses: Math 8, Algebra I, or Geometry. Central curriculum topics are as follows:
Geometry Units
Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations
Congruence
Similarity in Right triangles and Trigonometry
Quadrilaterals and Polygons
Probability and Statistics
Circles
Geometric Measurement and Dimension
Algebra Units
Reasoning with equations and inequalities
Modeling Linear Functions
Exponential Functions
Quadratic functions
Descriptive Statistics
Analyzing Functions
Algebraic Reasoning with Geometric Concepts
Math 8
Reasoning with equations.
Transformations, congruence, and similarity.
Exponents and operations with Scientific Notation
Using Rational and Irrational Numbers
Graphing and writing linear equations.
Modeling Functions.
Bivariate Statistics
Math Practices: Modeling