Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum Year 8 has been developed by a team of highly experienced maths educators and proven authors to provide a complete teaching and learning program for the new curriculum.

Second Edition of this title also now available.

To view a sample chapter, please click on the chapter below in blue.

Chapters updated September 25th, 2013

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These tests are available free to teachers who are registered Cambridge GO users.

These chapter tests have been written to help students consolidate the material covered in each chapter. The A, B and C tests have been written to a similar level and are designed to give students practise at key skills and concepts, while the D tests are more challenging.

These tests are also available as part of the teacher edition resources.

Note: D tests updated 18 October 2013

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Combined teaching program and Australian Curriculum grids (compliant with Australian Curriculum Version 3), including HOTmaths program:

State curriculum grids:

These are more detailed versions of the curriculum grids that are summarised in the teaching program.

The complete Teacher Edition online resources are available now.

Please note: The Teacher resource package does not include access to the PDF textbook. Please use the 16 character code in the front of your textbook to access the PDF textbook.

The Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum Teacher Edition & Online Solutions/Resources is available for purchase separately.

The complete Teacher Resource Package contains:

• Chapter summary posters
• Chapter tests and solutions
• Teacher edition PDFs
• Teaching programs
• Worked solutions
• Worksheets and answers
   

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Essential Maths/HOTmaths integrated program

The best textbook/interactive online resource combination for junior/middle secondary is now available — see: