Year 7 & 8 Administrative & Course Handbook

MATHEMATICS YEAR 7 MATHS Inthestudyofmathematicsweaimthatstudentsdevelop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for successful employment and functioning in society. Students will solve practical problems using mathematics and use knowledge to build an understanding of the role of mathematics in life, society and work. It is also aimed that students will gain specialist knowledge in mathematics that provides for further study. SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE • Describe patterns in uses of indices with whole numbers, recognise commonalities between fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios, plotting points on the Cartesian plane, identify angles formed by a transversal crossing a pair of parallel lines, and connecting the laws and properties of numbers to algebraic terms and expressions. • Calculate accurately with integers, represent fractions and decimals in various ways, investigate best buys, evaluate measures of central tendency and calculate areas of shapes and volumes of prisms. • Formulate and solve authentic problems using numbers and measurements, create transformations and identify symmetry, calculating angles and interpret sets of data collected through chance experiments. • Apply the number laws to calculations, apply known geometric facts to draw conclusions about shapes, apply an understanding of ratio and interpret data displays. YEAR 8 MATHS In the study of mathematics we aim that students develop useful mathematical and numeracy skills for successful employment and functioning in society. Students will solve practical problems using mathematics and use knowledge to build an understanding of the role of mathematics in life, society and work. It is also aimed that students will gain specialist knowledge in mathematics that provides for further study. SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE • Describe patterns in uses of indices and repeating decimals, identify commonalities between operations with algebra and arithmetic, connect rules of relations and functions and their graphs, explain the function of statistical measures, and contrast measurements of perimeter and area. • Calculate accurately with simple decimals, indices and integers, recognise equivalence of common decimals and fractions including repeating decimals, factorising and simplify basic algebraic expressions, evaluate perimeters, areas and volumes of common shapes, and calculate the mean and median of small sets of data. • Formulate and model, with comparisons of ratios, profit and loss, authentic situations involving areas and perimeters of common shapes and analysing and interpret data using two-way tables. • Justify the result of a calculation or estimation as reasonable, explain formal and intuitive use of ratios for comparing rates and prices, derive one probability from its complement, use congruence to deduce properties of triangles, and make inferences about data. 32 MOOROOLBARK COLLEGE