Eighth Grade Mathematics (1920)
Transition from pure arithmetic to pre-algebra. Integration of practical applications with emerging standardized testing concepts.
5
Hours/Week
8
Skills Expected
Roaring Twenties
Era
Post-WWI era saw emergence of standardized testing and efficiency movements in education. Junior high schools became common, changing the 8th grade experience.
Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
Scientific education and standardized testing emerged. Junior high schools became common.
- Fundamental operations with whole numbers, fractions, decimals
- Introduction to signed numbers
- Simple algebraic equations
- Geometric concepts and area/volume calculations
- Reading and interpreting graphs and charts
- Practical problems in banking and commerce
- Ratio, proportion, and percentage
- Basic statistics concepts
- Stone-Millis Arithmetic
- Hamilton's Essentials of Arithmetic
- Strayer-Upton Practical Arithmetics
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Wentworth's New School Algebra
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