Maths Overview Year 8
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW – MATHS
YEAR 8 - SPRING TERM
Main areas of work:
- Problem solving.
- Fractions, converting units of measurement, prime factors with links to lowest and highest common multiples, using formulae and further work on percentages to include price increase and reduction.
- Expression of information in percentage terms.
- Further work on shape to include classifying 2D and 3D shapes.
- Tessellation, area, volume and perimeter.
- Surveys, biased questions, ratio and proportion.
- Algebraic expressions.
- Constructions
- Unit conversions using graphs
Useful Websites:Powers Common multiples
Mean Prime factors
Mode
Median
Range
Interpret
Circles
Tessellation
Area/Volume/Perimeter
Percentage increase/reduction