CLAUDIO, LAURA

Ms. Claudio Special Education 8th Grade Math

WELCOME TO MATH 2024/2025

Hi, my name is Ms. Claudio, I am your 8th grade Special Education Math teacher this year. This is my 29th year teaching. I am a graduate of the Wall School System. I graduated from Georgian Court College. I have a degree in Special Education and a degree in Elementary Education. I am the Assistant Athletic Director for the Fall and Winter Sports seasons. I look forward to working with you this school year. It will be an exciting and fun year in 8th grade Math.

If you have any questions, please email me at lclaudio@wallpublicschools.org.

2025/2026 Class Schedule:
Periods:

Extra Help: THURSDAY after school - if I need to change it, I will post on board the week before

Remember students to check Google Classroom for class information.

Parents please remember to accept the invite for the Google Classroom Summary Report.
Please note, that Genesis will always be the most up to date resource for grades and assignments

Supplies Needed for September:

Charged Chromebook (School Issued)
Pencils
Earbuds wired
Black Expo Markers (Dry Erase)
Dry Erase Eraser
Calculator - Texas Instruments 30 XIIS Calculator
3-Ring Binder (2 inch suggested-will hold book)
Lined Paper
Highlighter

Grading:

40% Tests
40% Minor Assessments
20% Independent Assignments

Course Overview

Standards for Mathematical Practice

Students will:

* Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
*Reason abstractly and quantitatively
*Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
*Model with mathematics
*Use appropriate tools strategically
*Attend to precision
*Look for and make use of structure
*Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Common Core Domains

*Ratios and Proportional Relationships
*The Number System
*Expressions and Equations
*Functions
*Geometry
*Statistics and Probability

Text is Amplify Desmos
Our Course of Study - We will choose from the following:

MATH 8:

Unit 1: Rigid Transformations and Congruence
Unit 2: Dilations, Similarity, and Introducing Slope
Unit 3: Proportional and Linear Relationships
Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems
Unit 5: Functions and Volume
Unit 6: Associations in Data
Unit 7: Exponents and Scientific Notation
Unit 8: The Pythagorean Theorem and Irrational Numbers

Click here for a more detailed look at each unit.

Homework/Assignments

Click here for Homework

Homework and all assignments are found in Google Classroom.

Homework will be assigned nightly except Fridays and holidays. All homework assignments will be graded for completion. In order to obtain credit, you must show all your work. If you do not complete your homework one night, you can complete the assignment and hand it in the next day for 1/2 credit.

Please check Genesis for up-to-date grades and any missing assignments: Link to Genesis:

All homework and assignments can be found here: Google Classroom

Resources

lclaudio@wallpublicschools.org

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