Skill Expansion Practice: Grade 8 Math (Lower Half of the Year) (New Curriculum PEP Edition)

Author: Wang Jiwei
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Entering the 21st century, the Ministry of Education issued a new compulsory education curriculum standard. The publication of experimental textbooks for compulsory education curriculum under the guidance of this new curriculum standard is an important sign of the deepening of China's education reform. According to the planning and arrangements of the Ministry of Education, the experimental textbooks for the compulsory education curriculum standard have been published. The new textbooks give a fresh and innovative feel, adhering to the requirements of the new era and the concept of quality-oriented education, striving to embody the new concepts of curriculum, textbooks, teaching, and learning. With the focus on cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical abilities, and with the goal of improving students' comprehensive qualities, their use is bound to be warmly welcomed by teachers and students. How to deeply understand the new curriculum standard and how to improve students' qualities, especially their ability to explore independently, have become pressing new issues. The writing of this series of books is a new attempt in this regard. Based on a careful study and discussion of the new curriculum standard, we have compiled the experience of exploratory learning in recent years, combined with the content of the new textbooks, to concretize the basic concepts and requirements of the new curriculum standard. This is beneficial not only for students to learn the new textbooks but also for them to improve their own qualities and abilities. The writing of this series of books strives to highlight the following characteristics:
First, the modernity and openness of the content. Modern society is an open society, but many previous textbooks and supplementary materials were outdated and monotonous, no longer suitable for current circumstances and students' needs. Therefore, this series of books incorporates many fresh elements, fully considering students' existing experiences, interests, and needs, and widely utilizes multimedia and other information resources to make the content novel and vivid, effectively stimulating students' interest in learning.
Second, emphasizing the combination of autonomy and exploration. The new curriculum standard strongly emphasizes the cultivation of students' exploratory abilities, and the new textbooks also focus on the selection and updating of basic knowledge and skills. On this basis, greater emphasis is placed on improving students' comprehensive qualities and innovative and practical abilities. Therefore, this series of books includes both training in autonomy to help students build a solid foundation and cultivate the awareness of independent learning, as well as the cultivation of exploratory abilities. Through life-related content and diverse presentation methods, students can acquire new knowledge and experiences in their exploration, thereby comprehensively improving their qualities and abilities.
Third, focusing on the integration of different subjects, providing more background materials, and emphasizing the connections between knowledge in different subjects. In the process of transfer and expansion, efforts are made to integrate knowledge points into an organic whole as much as possible.