ICSE Class 8 Maths Syllabus is provided here for students of Class 8 to learn the topics of Mathematics properly and for the best learning experience, as offered by the ICSE curriculum. Keep a check on the ICSE Syllabus while studying and make sure that you don’t miss out on any topic during your preparation.
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The syllabus of ICSE Class 8 Mathematics is given below.
Theme 1: Number System
1) Rational Numbers
- Properties of rational numbers (including identities). Using the general form of expression to describe properties
- Representation of rational numbers on the number line
- Between any two rational numbers, there lies another rational number
- Word problem
2) Exponents Powers
- Laws of exponents with integral powers
- Square and Square roots using the factor method and division method for numbers containing
- no more than total 4 digits
- no more than 2 decimal places
- Cubes and cubes roots (only factor method for numbers containing at most 3 digits)
3) Playing with numbers
- Writing and understanding a 2 and 3-digit numbers in the generalised form (100a + 10b + c, where a, b, c can be only digit 0-9) and engaging with various puzzles children to solve and create problems and puzzles.
- Deducing the divisibility test rules of 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 for a two or three-digit number expressed in the general form.
 4) Sets
- Union and intersection of sets
- Disjoint-set
- Complement of a set
Theme 2: Ratio and Proportion
- Slightly advanced problems involving applications on percentages, profit & loss, overhead expenses, Discount, tax.
- Difference between simple and compound interest (compounded yearly up to 3 years or half-yearly up to 3 steps only)
- Direct and inverse variations – Simple and direct word problems
- Time and work problems – Simple and direct word problems
Theme 3: Algebra
- Algebraic Expressions
- Multiplication and division of algebraic expression (Coefficient should be integers)
- Identities (a ± b)2 = a2± 2ab + b2, a2 – b2 = (a – b) (a + b).
- Properties of in equalities.
- Factorisation (simple cases only) as examples of the following types a(x + y), (x ± y)2, a2 – b2, (x + a)(x + b)
- Solving linear equations in one variable in contextual problems involving multiplication and division (word problems) (avoid complex coefficient in the equations)
Theme 4: Geometry
Understanding shapes:
i. Properties of quadrilaterals – Angle Sum property
ii. Properties of a parallelogram (By verification)
- Opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal
- Opposite angles of a parallelogram are equal
- Diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other
- Diagonals of a rectangle are equal and bisect each other
- Diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other at right angles
- Diagonals of a square are equal and bisect each other at right angles
Representing 3D in 2D
- Identify and match pictures with objects [more complicated, e.g., nested, joint 2D and 3D shapes (not more than 2)].
- Drawing 2D representation of 3D objects (Continued and extended)
- Counting vertices, edges & faces & verifying Euler’s relation for 3D figures with flat faces (cubes, cuboids, tetrahedrons, prisms and pyramids)
Construction of Quadrilaterals
- Given four sides and one diagonal
- Three sides and two diagonals
- Three sides and two included angles
- Two adjacent sides and three angles
The idea of reflection symmetry and symmetrical shapes.
Circle
- Circle, centre, radius/diameter, arc, chord, sector and segment.
Theme 5: Mensuration
- Area of a trapezium, a polygon and semi-circle.
- Surface area of a cube, cuboid, cylinder.
- Idea of Total surface area and curved surface areas of various 3D figures
- Concept of volume, measurement of volume using a basic unit, the volume of a cube, cuboid and cylinder
- Volume and capacity (the measurement of capacity)
Theme 6: Data Handling
- Arranging ungrouped data, it into groups, representation of grouped data through bar-graphs, constructing and interpreting bar-graphs.
- Simple Pie charts with reasonable data numbers
- Consolidating and generalising the notion of chance in events like tossing coins, dice, etc. Relating it to chance in life events.
Recommended textbooks
- ICSE Mathematics for Class 8 by Asit Das Gupta-English-Bharati Bhawan (English) by Asit Das Gupta
- Mathematics Today-8 (ICSE) (English) 01 Edition (Paperback) by S K Gupta
- Longman ICSE Mathematics Book 8 (Paperback) by Sehgal
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