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=Year 8 Maths @ KTHS=

CURRICULUM FOCUS
1. **SPACE**  - Geometry - Constructions - Angles - Polygons - Parallel Lines - Isometric Drawings 2. **NUMBER** - Integers: Negative numbers, four operations, plotting points in 4 quadrants.  - Percentages <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Decimals <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Fractions <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Indices: Exponent form, index laws, standard form, squares, cubes and square roots. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. **MEASUREMENT, CHANCE AND DATA** <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">- Ratio: Simplifying, sharing in given ratio, scale drawing. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Length <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Circles: Circumference, diameter. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Area: Circle, triangle, parallelogram, rhombus and trapezium. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Surface area. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Volume: Prisms, cylinders <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">- Chance: Probability, tree diagrams, sample spaces. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Data Handling: Mean, Median, Mode, Range quartiles, box-and-whisker plots. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Histograms, stem and leaf plots. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4. **STRUCTURE** <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">- Graphs and Formulas: Interpreting graphs, distance-time graphs, using patterns. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">- Graphs and equations: Solving equations using graphs, using "guess, check, improve", <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">using spreadsheets. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Equations and expressions: Solving equations using backtracking, by doing the same to both <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">sides. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Word Problems. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">5. **WORKING MATHEMATICALLY** <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">- Problem Solving Projects. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Reasoning <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Mathematical processes <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">

<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">WORK REQUIREMENTS
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1. Exercises and worksheets <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2. Homework tasks <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. Problem solving reports <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4. Projects

<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ASSESSMENT TASKS
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1. Tests <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2. Projects <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. Problem-solving reports <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4. Work sheets <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">