Grade 8 is the runway to high school — consolidating everything, with independence as the quiet second subject. Here is the year as Ontario schools actually teach it — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
Ontario math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Rational numbers, powers, square roots, and an introduction to irrational numbers.
Ratios, rates, percents, and proportional relationships.
Algebraic expressions, solving multi-step equations, and linear relations.
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Angle relationships, parallel lines, and the Pythagorean relationship.
Surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders, and composite figures.
Data collection, analysis, misleading representations, and probability of compound events.
Budgeting, credit and interest, and evaluating financial decisions.
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The basic structure and function of plant and animal cells and cell processes.
Basic fluid mechanics, including the properties and uses of fluids.
Different types of systems and the factors that contribute to their safe and efficient operation.
The characteristics of Earth’s water systems and factors that affect these systems.
In a storm, why do you see the lightning before you hear the thunder?
In Ontario, Grades 7–8 split Social Studies into separate History and Geography strands — just like at school.
The creation of Canada from 1850 to 1890 — Confederation, building a new country, and westward expansion; include honestly and respectfully how these changes affected First Peoples and other communities (such as loss of land and pressure on their ways of life), at a general, age-appropriate level and from their perspectives, without graphic detail.
Canada, 1890–1914: a changing society shaped by immigration, industrialization, and regional development.
Global settlement patterns and sustainability — where and why people live where they do; describe any data in words.
Global inequalities in economic development and quality of life, and how they can be measured and addressed.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (the 2020 Ontario math curriculum and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.