Missouri State Standards for Mathematics: Grade 8

MO.N.1. Number and Operations: Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers and number systems.

N.1.A. Read, write and compare numbers: compare and order all rational numbers including percents, and find their approximate location on a number line (DOK 1; MA5 1.10)

N.1.B. Represent and use rational numbers: use fractions, decimals and percents to solve problems (DOK 2; MA5 3.3)

N.1.C. Compose and decompose numbers: recognize equivalent representations for the same number and generate them by decomposing and composing numbers, including scientific notation (DOK 2; MA5 1.6)

MO.N.2. Number and Operations: Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another.

N.2.C. Apply properties of operations: apply properties of operations to all rational numbers including order of operations and inverse operations (DOK 2; MA1 1.10)

MO.A.1. Algebraic Relationships: Understand patterns, relations and functions.

A.1.B. Create and analyze patterns: analyze patterns represented graphically or numerically with words or symbolic rules, using explicit notation (DOK 2; MA4 1.6)

A.1.C. Classify objects and representations: compare and contrast various forms of representations of patterns (DOK 3; MA4 1.6)

A.1.D. Identify and compare functions: identify functions as linear or nonlinear from tables, graphs or equations (DOK 1; MA4 1.6)

MO.A.2. Algebraic Relationships: Represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols.

A.2.A. Represent mathematical situations: use symbolic algebra to represent and solve problems that involve linear relationships (DOK 3; MA4 3.3)

A.2.B. Describe and use mathematical manipulation: use properties to generate equivalent forms for simple algebraic expressions that include all rationals (DOK 2; MA4 3.2)

MO.A.3. Algebraic Relationships: Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships.

A.3.A. Use mathematical models: model and solve problems, using multiple representations such as graphs, tables, and linear equations (DOK 2; MA4 3.6)

MO.A.4. Algebraic Relationships: Analyze change in various contexts.

A.4.A. Analyze change: analyze the nature of changes (including slope an intercepts) in quantities in linear relationships (DOK 3; MA4 1.6)

MO.G.1. Geometric and Spatial Relationships: Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems.

G.1.A. Describe and use geometric relationships: describe, classify and generalize relationships between and among types of: a) 2-dimensional objects and b) 3-dimensional objects using their defining properties including Pythagorean Theorem (DOK 3; MA2 1.6)

MO.G.2. Geometric and Spatial Relationships: Specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems.

G.2.A. Use coordinate systems: use coordinate geometry to analyze properties of right triangles and quadrilaterals (including use of the Pythagorean Theorem) (DOK 2; MA2 3.2)

MO.G.3. Geometric and Spatial Relationships: Apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations.

G.3.A. Use transformations on objects: reposition shapes under formal transformations such as reflection, rotation and translation (DOK 2; MA2 3.3)

G.3.B. Use transformations on functions: describe the relationship between the scale factor and the area of the image using a dilation (stretching/shrinking) (DOK 2; MA2 3.6)

G.3.D. Use symmetry: identify the number of rotational symmetries of regular polygons (DOK 1; MA2 1.6)

MO.G.4. Geometric and Spatial Relationships: Use visualization spatial reasoning and geometric modeling to solve problems.

G.4.A. Recognize and draw three-dimensional representations: create isometric drawings from a given mat plan (DOK 3; MA2 3.3)

G.4.B. Draw and use visual models: draw or use visual models to represent and solve problems (DOK 3; MA2 3.3)

MO.M.2. Measurement: Apply appropriate techniques, tools and formulas to determine measurements.

M.2.B. Use angle measurement: solve problems of angle measure, including those involving triangles and parallel lines cut by a transversal (DOK 1; MA2 3.2)

M.2.D. Analyze precision: analyze precision and accuracy in measurement situations and determine number of significant digits (DOK 2; MA2 1.7)

MO.D.1. Data and Probability: Formulate questions that can be dressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them

D.1.C. Represent and interpret data: select, create and use appropriate graphical representation of data (including scatter plots) and box plots (box and whiskers) (DOK 2; MA3 1.8)

MO.D.2. Data and Probability: Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data.

D.2.A. Describe and analyze data: find, use and interpret measures of center, outliers and spread, including range and interquartile range (DOK 2; MA3 1.10)

D.2.B. Compare data representations: compare different representations of the same data and evaluate how well each representation shows important aspects of the data (DOK 3; MA3 1.10)

MO.D.3. Data and Probability: Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data.

D.3.A. Develop and evaluate inferences: make conjectures about possible relationships between 2 characteristics of a sample on the basis of scatter plots of the data and approximate lines of fit (DOK 3; MA3 3.5)