MATHEMATICS Standard VIII A Publication under Government of TamilNadu Distribution of Free Textbook Programme (NOT FOR SALE) Untouchability is a sin Untouchability is a crime Untouchability is inhuman TAMILNADU TEXTBOOK CORPORATION College Road , Chennai — 600 006© Government of Tamilnadu First Edition - 2005 Reprint - 2006 Chairperson Dr. K. MARIAPPAN Director Elementary Education Chennai ~ 600 006. Reviewers Thiru M.K. SUBRAMANIAN ‘Tmt. C. SAROJA Deputy Director ( Retd.) Lecturer Directorate of Teacher Education DIET Research and Training Vadalur — 607 303, Chennai - 600 006, Authors ‘Thiru, V. SRIRAM Thiru, T. KATHIRVEL, BT. Assistant BT. Assistant P.CK.G. Gout. Hr. See. Schoo! Govt. Hr, See. Schoo! Kodambakkam Arumbakkam Chennai 600 024. Chennai - 600 106. ‘Thiru. P.NAGARAJAN ‘Thiru. T.K.SRINIVASAN BT, Assistant B.T, Assistant B.R. Gout, Hr, Sec, School Govt, Hr. See. Schoo! Puzhal. Thiruvallur Dist West Mambalam (Pudhur) Chennai ~ 600 066, Chennai ~ 600 083. Thiru, S.RAMAMURTHI ‘Thiru, M.SRINIVASAN Assistant Professor B.T. Assistant Directorate of School Education Govt. High School Chennai- 600 006. Budur, Thiruvallur Dist. Chennai ~ 600 067. ‘This book has been prepared by the Direetorate of School Education of the Government of Tamilnadu This book has been printed on 60 G.S.M. paper. Printed by web offset at: Padhma Enterprises, Coennai -600 005.CONTENTS NUMBER SYSTEM 1.1 Order Relations among numbers - Revision 1.2 Decimal Representation of rational numbers 1.3 Roots of a number 1.4. Errors and estimation 1,5. Base-2, Base-5 number systems EVERYDAY ARITHMETIC 2.1. Percentage 2.2. Banking and compound interest 2.3. Domestic finance MEASUREMENTS 3.1 Circular sectors 3.2. Drawing 3D shapes 3.3. Surface areas and volumes of right prism , cylinder, cone, sphere and hemisphere ALGEBRA 4.1 Praming a formula 4.2. Simultaneous linear equation GEOMETRY 5.1 Properties of triangle $.2 Concurrency in triangle 53. Parallelogram iit PAGES 1-43 1 8 13 7 31 44-70 44 33 67 71-112 7m 1” 84 113-141 113, 19 142-175 142 162 168