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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Twenty Per Cent Off and Ten More Is Not Thirty Per Cent Off

Learn to find discount and discount per cent from the marked price, work out a marked price that allows both a discount and a profit, combine successive discounts correctly, and add GST to a discounted price.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Selling Two Things at the Same Price Can Still Lose Money

Learn to find profit or loss per cent from cost and selling price, work out the selling price from a required percentage, recover the cost price from the selling price, and handle overhead expenses and two-article problems.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Up Twenty Per Cent Then Down Twenty Leaves You Worse Off

Learn to calculate percentage increase and decrease, find the value after two successive changes, apply percentages to population growth, depreciation and marks, and solve mixture, income and savings problems.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Finding the Whole From a Part Runs Every Step Backwards

Learn to convert between fractions, decimals, ratios and percentages in both directions, find a percentage of a quantity and express one quantity as a percentage of another, and recover the whole when only a part is known.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Adding Two Overlapping Groups Counts the Middle Part Twice

Learn to find the union, intersection and difference of two sets, draw and read Venn diagrams, verify De Morgan's laws and the distributive property, and solve counting problems with the union formula.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

A Collection of Three Things Has Eight Different Subsets

Learn to write a set in roster and set-builder form, classify sets as empty, singleton, finite, equal or equivalent, count subsets with the two-to-the-n rule, and find the complement of a set in a universal set.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Only the Last Three Digits Decide Divisibility by Eight

Learn every divisibility test from 2 to 11 and when to use each, find the missing digit that makes a number divisible by a given number, and see why each test works using place value.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Subtract Any Three-Digit Number From Its Reverse and 99 Divides It

Learn to write a two-digit or three-digit number in generalised form, prove the reversal and cyclic results that follow from it, and solve cryptarithm puzzles where letters stand for digits.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

A Cube Keeps the Sign of Its Number but a Square Never Does

Learn to test whether a number is a perfect cube, cube negative numbers, fractions and decimals, find cube roots by prime factorisation and from the last digit, and find the smallest multiplier or divisor that makes a perfect cube.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Prime Factors Fail the Moment a Number Is Not a Perfect Square

Learn to find a square root by prime factorisation and by long division, handle fractions and decimals and round to a given number of places, find the least number to add or subtract to reach a perfect square, and solve area and row problems.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

You Can Rule Out a Non-Square From Its Last Digit Alone

Learn which unit digits a perfect square can and cannot have, square any two-digit or three-digit number using algebraic identities and the column method, and use the odd-number and Pythagorean patterns.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

If the Bases Match, You Can Throw the Bases Away

Learn to solve exponential equations by making the bases the same, write very large and very small numbers in standard form and back again, evaluate expressions with rational bases and reciprocals, and compare quantities with exponents.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

A Negative Power Is Only an Instruction to Turn the Fraction Over

Learn what positive, zero and negative exponents mean and how to convert between exponential and expanded form, apply all the laws of exponents to simplify expressions, and clear negative exponents from a rational base.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

Division Is the One Operation Rational Numbers Cannot Always Do

Learn to add and subtract rationals using the LCM, multiply and divide them with reciprocals, test the closure, commutative, associative and distributive properties, and solve word problems using the additive inverse.

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MathematicsClass 8ICSE

There Is No Such Thing as the Next Rational Number

Learn what makes a number rational and how to write it in standard form, place positive and negative rationals on a number line, compare and order them reliably, and insert as many rationals as you like between any two.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

Four Kinds of Farming That Never Involve a Single Crop

Learn what animal husbandry involves and how indigenous cattle breeds differ from exotic ones, how poultry is managed and what the White Revolution achieved, what pisciculture, sericulture and apiculture each produce, and how bacteria and fungi make food.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

One Crop Leaves the Soil Richer Than It Found It

Learn to tell kharif crops from rabi ones by their season and water needs, follow the six agricultural practices in order, compare manure with chemical fertiliser, and see why crop rotation keeps soil fertile.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

Most First Aid Mistakes Are Things People Add, Not Things They Miss

Learn what first aid is for and the rules that apply to every case, the correct response to bleeding, burns, fractures and snake bite, what to do about drowning and electric shock, and why tobacco, alcohol and drugs do lasting damage.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

Four Different Kinds of Germ Cause the Diseases You Know Best

Learn what a disease is and which ones spread, match each named disease to the kind of germ that causes it, follow the five routes by which infection travels, and see how each route is blocked.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

Your Hand Moves Before Your Brain Knows It Was Burnt

Learn the structure and functions of the spinal cord and what protects it, tell the central, peripheral and autonomic systems apart, trace an impulse round a reflex arc, and sort reflexes into natural and acquired.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

A Nerve Message Can Only Ever Travel in One Direction

Learn why the body needs coordination and which two systems provide it, label a neuron and state what each part does, tell sensory from motor and relay neurons, and place the cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla oblongata.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

Blood Passes Through the Heart Twice on Every Complete Round

Learn the four chambers of the heart and where each valve sits, trace the whole path of blood through both circuits, understand heartbeat, pulse and the heart's own pacemaker, and see what tissue fluid and lymph do.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

One Blood Group Gives to Everyone and Takes From Almost Nobody

Learn what blood is made of and what each component does, follow the chain of reactions that seals a cut, understand the ABO groups and the Rh factor, and compare arteries, veins and capillaries.

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BiologyClass 8ICSE

Two Hormones Rewrite the Whole Body in About Four Years

Learn what adolescence and puberty mean and when each begins, trace every physical change back to testosterone or oestrogen, understand the emotional changes and what actually helps, and see why diet and hygiene matter more at this age.

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