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NCERT · Class 8

NCERT Class 8 Mathematics: Chapter List and Official PDFs

All 14 chapters of the NCERT Class 8 Mathematics textbook(s), with the section headings of each chapter and a link to the official PDF on ncert.nic.in. Open a chapter to see what it covers.

14 chapters2 books

Ganita Prakash Part-I

Chapter 1: A Square and A Cube
  • 1.1 Square Numbers
  • 1.2 Cubic Numbers
  • 1.3 A Pinch of History

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Chapter 2: Power Play
  • 2.1 Experiencing the Power Play ...
  • 2.2 Exponential Notation and Operations
  • 2.3 The Other Side of Powers
  • 2.4 Powers of 10
  • 2.5 Did You Ever Wonder?
  • 2.5 A Pinch of History

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Chapter 3: A Story of Numbers
  • 3.1 Reema’s Curiosity
  • 3.2 Some Early Number Systems
  • 3.3 The Idea of a Base
  • 3.4 Place Value Representation

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Chapter 4: Quadrilaterals
  • 4.1 Rectangles and Squares
  • 4.2 Angles in a Quadrilateral
  • 4.3 More Quadrilaterals with Parallel Opposite Sides
  • 4.4 Quadrilaterals with Equal Sidelengths
  • 4.5 Playing with Quadrilaterals
  • 4.6 Kite and Trapezium

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Chapter 5: Number Play
  • 5.1 Is This a Multiple Of?
  • 5.2 Checking Divisibility Quickly
  • 5.3 Digits in Disguise

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Chapter 6: We Distribute, Yet Things Multiply
  • 6.1 Some Properties of Multiplication
  • 6.2 Special Cases of the Distributive Property
  • 6.3 Mind the Mistake, Mend the Mistake
  • 6.4 This Way or That Way, All Ways Lead to the Bay

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Chapter 7: Proportional Reasoning-1
  • 7.1 Observing Similarity in Change
  • 7.2 Ratios
  • 7.3 Ratios in their Simplest Form
  • 7.4 Problem Solving with Proportional Reasoning
  • 7.5 Sharing, but Not Equally!
  • 7.6 Unit Conversions

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Ganita Prakash Part-II

Chapter 1: Fractions in Disguise
  • 1.1 Fractions as Percentages
  • 1.2 Percentage of Some Quantity
  • 1.3 Using Percentages

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Chapter 2: The Baudhāyana-Pythagoras Theorem
  • 2.1 Doubling a Square
  • 2.2 Halving a Square
  • 2.3 Hypotenuse of an Isosceles Right Triangle
  • 2.4 Combining Two Different Squares
  • 2.5 Right–Triangles Having Integer Sidelengths
  • 2.6 A Long-Standing Open Problem
  • 2.7 Further Applications of the Baudhāyana - Pythagoras Theorem

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Chapter 3: Proportional Reasoning-2
  • 3.1 Proportionality — A Quick Recap
  • 3.2 Ratios in Maps
  • 3.3 Ratios with More than 2 Terms
  • 3.4 Dividing a Whole in a Given Ratio
  • 3.5 A Slice of the Pie
  • 3.6 Inverse Proportions

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Chapter 4: Exploring Some Geometric Themes
  • 4.1 Fractals
  • 4.2 Visualising Solids

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Chapter 5: Tales by Dots and Lines
  • 5.1 The Balancing Act
  • 5.2 Visualising and Interpreting Data

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Chapter 6: Algebra Play
  • 6.1 Algebra Play
  • 6.2 Thinking about ‘Think of a Number’ Tricks
  • 6.3 Number Pyramids
  • 6.4 Fun with Grids
  • 6.5 The Largest Product
  • 6.6 Decoding Divisibility Tricks

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Chapter 7: Area
  • 7.1 Rectangle and Squares

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Free sample questions

Three sample questions with answers. Full explanations — and the rest of the question bank — are free to read after you sign up.

Q1. The mean of the five numbers 12, 15, 9, w, 14 is 13. The value of w is

  1. 15
  2. 13
  3. 16
  4. 65
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Correct answer: A. 15

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Q2. The cube root of 13824 is

  1. 24
  2. 18
  3. 26
  4. 36
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Correct answer: A. 24

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Q3. The word 'isometric', from Greek, means:

  1. equal angle
  2. equal measure
  3. three dimensions
  4. same shape
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Correct answer: B. equal measure

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Chapter lists follow the NCERT textbooks as available to us; textbooks are revised from time to time, so confirm on ncert.nic.in.

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