{"id":333010,"date":"2026-09-24T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=333010"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:05:36","slug":"grade-8-mathematics-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2026\/09\/24\/grade-8-mathematics-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8 Mathematics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">What We Covered This Week:<\/b> Building on our work with the laws of indices, students took their understanding further by exploring standard form (scientific notation):<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"4\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Standard Form Conversions:<\/b> Expressing ordinary numbers in standard form and vice versa.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,1,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Algebraic Operations:<\/b> Simplifying brackets, expanding expressions, and writing the results in standard form.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,2,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Applications &amp; Comparison:<\/b> Mastered comparison rules for scientific notation and applied these skills to real-world word problems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><b data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Looking Ahead to Next Week:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"6\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"6,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Surds &amp; Radical Form:<\/b> Revisiting rational and irrational numbers, focusing on representing irrational numbers as radicals\/surds and simplifying surds.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6,1,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"6,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Unit Review:<\/b> Conducting a final review of the unit to consolidate learning.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\"><b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Upcoming Assessment:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"8\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Criteria A &amp; C Summative Assessment:<\/b> Tuesday, the 6th.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">Please encourage your child to do homework, review their notes and practice problems using our slides in google classroom. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Covered This Week: Building on our work with the laws of indices, students took their understanding further by exploring standard form (scientific notation): Standard Form Conversions: Expressing ordinary numbers in standard form and vice versa. Algebraic Operations: Simplifying brackets, expanding expressions, and writing the results in standard form. Applications &amp; Comparison: Mastered comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}