CBSE Class 8 Maths Syllabus 2026-27

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Number System            (60 hrs)

(i)

Knowing our Numbers:

Consolidating the sense of numberness up to 5 digits, Size, estimation of numbers, identifying smaller, larger, etc. Place value (recapitulation and extension), connectives: use of symbols =, <, > and use of brackets, word problems on number operations involving large numbers up to a maximum of 5 digits in the answer after all operations. This would include conversions of units of length & mass (from the larger to the smaller units), estimation of outcome of number operations. Introduction to a sense of the largeness of, and initial familiarity with, large numbers up to 8 digits and approximation of large numbers)

(ii)

Playing with Numbers:

Simplification of brackets, Multiples and factors, divisibility rule of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.

(All these through observing patterns. Children would be helped in deducing some and then asked to derive some that are a combination of the basic patterns of divisibility.) Even/odd and prime/composite numbers, Co-prime   numbers,   prime

Number System            (50 hrs)

(i)

Knowing our Numbers:

Integers

•     Multiplication and division of integers (through patterns). Division by zero is meaningless

•     Properties of integers (including identities for addition & multiplication, commutative, associative, distributive) (through patterns). These would include examples from whole numbers as well. Involve expressing commutative and associative properties in a general form. Construction of counter- examples, including some by children. Counter examples like subtraction is not commutative.

•     Word problems including integers (all operations)

(ii)

Fractions and rational

numbers:

•     Multiplication of fractions

•     Fraction as an operator

•     Reciprocal of a fraction

•     Division of fractions

•     Word problems involving mixed fractions

•     Introduction to rational numbers (with representation on number line)

•     Operations on rational numbers (all operations)

Number System            (50 hrs)

(i)

Rational Numbers:

•     Properties of rational numbers. (including identities). Using general form of expression to describe properties

•     Consolidation of operations on rational numbers.

•     Representation of rational numbers on the number line

•     Between any two rational numbers there lies another rational number (Making children see that if we take two rational numbers then unlike for whole numbers, in this case you can keep finding more and more numbers that lie between them.)

•     Word problem (higher logic, two operations, including ideas like area)

(ii)

Powers

•     Integers as exponents.

•     Laws of exponents with integral powers

(iii)

Squares, Square roots,

Cubes, Cube roots.

•     Square and Square roots

•     Square roots using factor method and division method for numbers containing (a) no more than total 4 digits and (b) no more than 2 decimal places

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•     Angle — Vertex, arm, interior and exterior,

•     Triangle — vertices, sides, angles, interior and exterior, altitude and median

•     Quadrilateral — Sides, vertices, angles, diagonals, adjacent sides and opposite sides (only convex quadrilateral are to be discussed), interior and exterior of a quadrilateral.

•     Circle — Centre, radius, diameter, arc, sector, chord, segment, semicircle, circumference, interior and exterior.

(ii)

Understanding Elementary

Shapes (

2-D and 3-D ):

•     Measure of Line segment

•     Measure of angles

•     Pair of lines

–      Intersecting and perpendi- cular lines

–      Parallel lines

•     Types of angles- acute, obtuse, right, straight, reflex, complete and zero angle

•     Classification of triangles (on the basis of sides, and of angles)

•     Types of quadrilaterals – Trapezium, parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus.

•     Simple polygons (introduction) (Upto octagons regulars as well as non regular).

•     Identification of 3-D shapes: Cubes,

Cuboids, cylinder, sphere, cone,

(ii)

Properties of triangles:

•       Angle sum property (with notions of proof & verification through paper folding, proofs using property of parallel lines, difference between proof and verification.)

•     Exterior angle property

•     Sum of two sides of a it’s third side

•     Pythagoras          Theorem

(Verification only)

(iii)

Symmetry

•     Recalling reflection symmetry

•     Idea of rotational symmetry, observations of rotational symmetry of 2-D objects. (900, 1200, 1800)

•     Operation of rotation through 900 and 1800 of simple figures.

•     Examples of figures with both rotation and reflection symmetry (both operations)

•     Examples of figures that have reflection and rotation symmetry and vice-versa

(iv)

Representing 3-D in 2-D:

•     Drawing 3-D figures in 2-D showing hidden faces.

•     Identification and counting of vertices, edges, faces, nets (for cubes cuboids, and cylinders, cones).

•     Matching pictures with objects

(Identifying names)

(iii)       Diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. [Why (iv), (v) and (vi) follow from (ii)]

(iv)        Diagonals of a rectangle are equal and bisect each other.

(v)        Diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other at right angles.

(vi)        Diagonals of a square are equal and bisect each other at right angles.

(ii)

Representing 3-D in 2-D

•     Identify and Match pictures with objects [more complicated e.g. nested, joint 2-D and 3-D shapes (not more than 2)].

•     Drawing 2-D representation of 3-D objects (Continued and extended)

•     Counting vertices, edges & faces & verifying Euler’s relation for 3-D figures with flat faces (cubes, cuboids, tetrahedrons, prisms and pyramids)

(iii)

Construction:

Construction of Quadrilaterals:

•     Given four sides and one diagonal

•     Three sides and two diagonals

•     Three sides and two included angles

•     Two adjacent sides and three angles

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•     Elements of 3-D figures. (Faces, Edges and vertices)

•     Nets for cube, cuboids, cylinders, cones and tetrahedrons.

(iii)

Symmetry: (

reflection)

•     Observation and identification of 2-D symmetrical objects for reflection symmetry

•     Operation of reflection (taking mirror images) of simple 2-D objects

•     Recognising reflection symmetry (identifying axes)

(iv) Constructions (using Straight edge Scale,

protractor,

compasses)

•     Drawing of a line segment

•     Construction of circle

•     Perpendicular bisector

(v)

Congruence

•     Congruence through superposition (examples- blades, stamps, etc.)

•     Extend congruence to simple geometrical shapes e.g. triangles, circles.

•     Criteria of congruence (by verification) SSS, SAS, ASA, RHS

(vi)

Construction (Using scale,

protractor, compass)

•     Construction of a line parallel to a given line from a point outside it.(Simple proof as remark with the reasoning of alternate angles)

•     Construction of simple triangles. Like given three sides, given a side and two angles on it, given two sides and the angle between

them.

protractor)

•     Angle 60°, 120° (Using Compasses)

•     Angle bisector- making angles of 30°, 45°, 90° etc. (using compasses)

•     Angle equal to a given angle (using compass)

•     Drawing a line perpendicular to a given line from a point a) on the line b) outside the line.

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Mensuration                  (15 hrs) C

ONCEPT OF PERIMETER AND INTRODUCTION TO AREA

Introduction and general understanding of perimeter using many shapes. Shapes of different kinds with the same perimeter. Concept of area, Area of a rectangle and a square Counter examples to different misconcepts related to perimeter and area.

Perimeter of a rectangle – and its special case – a square. Deducing the formula of the perimeter for a rectangle and then a square through pattern and generalisation.

Mensuration                  (15 hrs)

•     Revision of perimeter, Idea of

, Circumference of Circle

Area

Concept of measurement using a basic unit area of a square, rectangle, triangle, parallelogram and circle, area between two rectangles and two concentric circles.

Data handling               (15 hrs)

(i)       Collection and organisation of data – choosing the data to collect for a hypothesis testing.

(ii)      Mean, median and mode of ungrouped data – understanding what they represent.

(iii)        Constructing bargraphs

(iv)         Feel of probability using data through experiments. Notion of chance in events like tossing coins, dice etc. Tabulating and counting occurrences of 1 through 6 in a number of throws. Comparing the observation with that for a coin.Observing strings of throws, notion of randomness.

Mensuration                  (15 hrs)

(i)       Area of a trapezium and a polygon.

(ii)       Concept of volume, measurement of volume using a basic unit, volume of a cube, cuboid and cylinder

(iii)        Volume and capacity (measurement of capacity)

(iv)         Surface area of a cube, cuboid, cylinder.

Data handling                (10 hrs)

(i)       What is data – choosing data to examine a hypothesis?

(ii)       Collection and organisation of data – examples of organising it in tally bars and a table.

(iii)        Pictograph- Need for scaling in pictographs interpretation & construction.

(iv)         Making bar graphs for given data interpreting bar graphs+.

Data handling                (15 hrs)

(i)       Reading bar-graphs, ungrouped data, arranging it into groups, representation of grouped data through bar-graphs, constructing and interpreting bar-graphs.

(ii)       Simple  Pie    charts   with reasonable data numbers

(iii)        Consolidating and generalising the notion of chance in events like tossing coins, dice etc. Relating it to chance in life events. Visual representation of frequency outcomes of repeated throws of the same kind of coins or dice.

Throwing a large number

of identical dice/coins together and aggregating the

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Introduction to graphs (15 hrs) P

RELIMINARIES:

(i)       Axes (Same units), Cartesian Plane

(ii)       Plotting points for different kind of situations (perimeter vs length for squares, area as a function of side of a square, plotting of multiples of different numbers, simple interest vs number of years etc.)

(iii)        Reading off from the graphs

•     Reading of linear graphs

•     Reading of distance vs time graph