8th grade Math Guide

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

● Precision - in definitions and in the way text is read ● Efficiency ● Mixture of prose, formulae, graphics

Text Characterizations

● Reading order changes (don’t always read left to right) ● Abstraction and generalization (intense reading needed) ● Concepts described in relation to each other (e.g. a triangle is described as a relationship between the three sides)

Words with precise definitions that are different than general meanings e.g., factor, prime

Vocabulary