Year 8 Overview – Pathway to A – Target Level 7
Term 1
Term
Key content
Topic 2 - Equations
Topic 3 - Probability
Topic 4 - Percentages
Topic 5 - Volume
How can we always keep it
balanced?
Why do we have
theoretical probability?
Is it always good to have a
percentage increase?
What makes a prism a
prism?
How do you:
How do you:
How do you:
How do you:
Plot coordinates in
four quadrants –
review?
Solving Linear
equations with
unknowns on both
sides – review?
Calculate using
theoretical probability
- review?
Calculate percentages
of quantities – review?
Use function machines
to generate
coordinates?
Plot straight line
graphs in the form
y =mx +c?
Solve non linear
equations using a trial
and improvement
method?
Interpret and use
straight line graphs?
State the meaning of
the term relative
frequency?
Identify possible
sources of bias - know
that theoretical
probability is
dependant on a large
number of trials?
Calculate percentage
increases – review?
Calculate reverse
percentages calculating the original
amount after an
increase/decrease?
Conduct probability
experiments?
Identify the gradient
of a straight line?
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YR 8 FORMAL ASSESSMENT – NOV 2014
Fertile
Question
Skill
Topic 1- Straight Line
Graphs
What makes a straight line
a straight line?
How do you:
Calculate the area of
well known 2D shapes
– review?
Identify prisms and
the properties of
prisms?
Calculate the volume
of prisms?
Calculate the volume
of a cylinder?
Calculate using
volume?
Calculate the surface
area of prisms?
Calculate the surface
area of a cylinder?
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Term 2
Topic 6- Quadratics
Topic 7 – Grouped data
Topic 8 – Compound Units
Topic 9 – Scatter Graphs
Topic 10 - Approximation
Fertile
Question
Why must a quadratic
graph be U shaped?
Grouped Data – useful or
not?
How can we use units to
help us find out
quantities?
How can we use
correlation to make
predictions
Why do we approximate?
Skill
Key content
How do you:
How do you:
How do you:
How do you:
Find the nth term of a
linear sequence –
review?
Calculate the mean,
median and mode
from a set of data –
review?
Calculate the mean
from a frequency
table?
Identify the modal
class as an indication
of the average?
Calculate the mean
from a grouped
frequency table calculate the
estimated mean?
Find the median for
large data sets with
grouped data?
Calculate using speed,
density and
population density?
Correctly use the term
correlation when
describing the
relationship between
two varying
quantities?
Find the nth term of a
quadratic sequence review?
Plot graphs of
quadratic functions?
Plot, and interpret
distance time graphs?
Plot graphs in practical
situations?
Plot scatter graphs
and distinguish
between positive,
negative and zero
correlation Plot line of
best fit by eye and use
to predict values?
Draw lines of best fit
by eye?
Explain an isolated
point on a scatter
graph?
Assessment
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YR 8 FORMAL ASSESSMENT – MAR 2015
Term
How do you:
Round numbers to a
specified number of
decimal places?
Round numbers to a
specified number of
significant figures?
Estimate answers to
calculations?
Calculate a reciprocal
Express a number as a
product of its prime
factors?
Use prime factor
decomposition to
identify HCF and LCM?
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Term
Topic 11 - Pythagoras
Topic 12 – Inequalities
Topic 13 – Transformations
Topic 14 - Proportion
Topic 15 - Loci
Fertile
Question
Pythagoras – what has he
done for the modern
world?
Equal or not equal – how
could we tell the
difference?
How does transforming a
shape make it different?
When do you use
proportion?
How could Loci be used in your
life?
Skill
Key content
How do you:
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Calculate interior and
exterior angles –
review?
Solve linear
inequalities algebraically (one and
two step only)?
Reflect, rotate and
translate objects on a
coordinate grid –
review?
Calculate using direct
proportion (using the
constant of
proportionality)?
Solve linear
inequalities - using a
number line?
Enlarge objects using a
centre of enlargement
– review?
Enlarge objects using a
fractional and
negative scale factor?
Identify inverse
proportion?
Use bearings in scale
diagrams - state the
bearing of A from B
and B from A?
Calculate the length of
a side in a right angled
triangle using
Pythagoras' Theorem?
Use Pythagoras'
theorem to confirm
whether a triangle is
right angled or not?
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Plot straight line
graphs – review?
Solve linear
inequalities –
graphically?
Recognise that
enlargements
preserve angle but not
length?
Calculate using inverse
proportion (using the
constant of
proportionality)?
Identify, plot and
interpret proportional
and inverse
proportional graphs?
Find the centre of
enlargement and scale
factor from a centre of
enlargement?
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How do you:
Construct triangles –
review?
Bisect lines and angles
review?
Draw, identify and
interpret standard loci
region bounded by a circle
and an intersecting line?
– a given distance from a
point and a given distance
from a line?
– equal distances from two
points or two line
segments?
State the meaning of the
term equidistant?
- regions which may be
defined by ‘nearer to’ or
‘greater than’?
Find and describe regions
satisfying a combination of
loci?
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