Textbook review 8 math

Squares and square roots and cubes and cube roots - why two different things?
The prelims part is titled “Prilims”… smh
Reads like an undergrad book
- Goes top down instead of building things up from bottom to top
Intimidating because of fancy words (Closure)
- When should such words be introduced, if at all? Definitely not used to introduce things, words can maybe be mentioned at the end of a section (by the way, this is called closure) and until kids are comfortable using only the word (which is expected to take a while), whenever the idea is referred to, refer to it both by name and by the idea itself
How necessary is learning abstraction at the age of 13?
Can the art be slightly more appealing
Highlight that there is a revision / start with a revision, because if someone doesn’t remember the terms / ideas that are being mentioned right at the start of the chapter, they might not get as far as the revision before getting discouraged [pg 15]
Can linear equations be motivated again in class 8

Ignore :)