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
- Decimals
- Fractions
- Indices: Exponent form, index laws, standard form, squares, cubes and square roots.
3. MEASUREMENT, CHANCE AND DATA
- Ratio: Simplifying, sharing in given ratio, scale drawing.
- Length
- Circles: Circumference, diameter.
- Area: Circle, triangle, parallelogram, rhombus and trapezium.
Surface area.
- Volume: Prisms, cylinders
- Chance: Probability, tree diagrams, sample spaces.
- Data Handling: Mean, Median, Mode, Range quartiles, box-and-whisker plots.
Histograms, stem and leaf plots.
4. STRUCTURE
- Graphs and Formulas: Interpreting graphs, distance-time graphs, using patterns.
- Graphs and equations: Solving equations using graphs, using "guess, check, improve",
using spreadsheets.
- Equations and expressions: Solving equations using backtracking, by doing the same to both
sides.
Word Problems.
5. WORKING MATHEMATICALLY
- Problem Solving Projects.
- Reasoning
- Mathematical processes

WORK REQUIREMENTS

1. Exercises and worksheets
2. Homework tasks
3. Problem solving reports
4. Projects

ASSESSMENT TASKS

1. Tests
2. Projects
3. Problem-solving reports
4. Work sheets