Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 8 (Paperback)

Big Idea 1: Moving Shapes

Visualize: What does it mean to be the same?

Play: Pixel Puzzles

Investigate: Slide It, Flip It, Turn It

Big Idea 2: Zooming In and Out

Visualize: What is Similarity?

Play: Find the Fakes

Investigate: Growing on a Grid

Big Idea 3: Analyzing Proportional Relationships

Visualize: Dropping the Altitude

Play: Seeing Triangles Under the Line

Investigate: Ramp It Up

Big Idea 4: Comparing Patterns of Growth

Visualize: Squared Squares

Play: Skip Counting Arrays

Investigate: Stairway to Eleven

Big Idea 5: The Ins and Outs of Functions

Visualize: Growing Functions

Play: Getting Warmer!

Investigate: The Functions of Near Squares

Big Idea 6: Finding Patterns in the Clouds

Visualize: What’s Going on in this Graph?

Play: What’s the Story Here?

Investigate: Creating Data Visualizations

Big Idea 7: Completing the Real Number System

Visualize: Square Sides

Play: Between 4x4 and 5x5

Investigate: The Hypotenuse Hypothesis

Big Idea 8: Discovering Pythagoras

Visualize: Unpacking Pythagoras

Play: Pythagorean Triples

Investigate: Approximating Square Roots

Big Idea 9: Exploring the Geometry of Ice Cream

Visualize: Building Intuition about Volume

Play: Comparing Cylinders

Investigate: Scooping Up Volume