High School Math: What's Next?

(A very brief guide for people in Grade 8.)

Now you have mastered elementary arithmetic including the yoga of fractions, you can balance your cheque book and even compute mortgage payments, and you wonder what's next. There is not enough room on this sheet to deal with all the ins and outs (such as tesselations and fractals) or even do justice to probability (which involves a subtle handling of fractions). So we focus on four major topics.

Trigonometry.