Year Key Topics What will ALL ...
2013 – 2014 Scheme of Work Subject MATHS
Course/
Year 7
Key Topics
What will ALL students learn?
What will the most able students learn?
What is the key piece of Assessment/Rich task?
Number
Written methods of calculations
Rounding to significant figures
Real-life percentage problem solving tasks
Year Term 1
Decimals Rounding
Percentages
Negative Numbers
To calculate percentages with and without a calculator
To calculate percentage increases and decreases
To understand the place of negative numbers
To use the rules of negative numbers for addition and multiplication
To add and subtract negative numbers
To collect like terms and simplify To expand a single bracket
To factorise a simple expression
Algebra Term 2
Averages
To expand a set of brackets
To calculate averages for discrete data
To calculate averages for grouped data
To identify properties of 2D shapes Angles
To estimate, measure and draw angles
To solve more complex angle problems
Written assessment
To use angle facts to solve basic problems
To use function machines To solve basic and 2-stage equations
To solve equations with brackets
Equations To plot coordinates in one quadrant
Coordinates Term 3
Number
To solve problems involving coordinates To identify types of numbers To use a calculator to find squares and cubes
Algebra
To plot coordinates in four quadrants
To substitute whole numbers into expressions
To use a calculator to solve more complex problems
To substitute a variety of numbers into expressions To use indices rules for multiplying and dividing
Not all students will study this topic Pythagoras
To use metric units Area & Volume
To calculate missing lengths in right angled triangles
To calculate areas of compound shapes To calculate the volume of prisms
Dotty Shapes Investigation
To calculate perimeter and area of simple shapes To calculate the volume of cuboids Term 4
Fractions
To find equivalent fractions and fractions of amounts
To solve problems involving mixed numbers
Written Assessment
To solve problems with fractions
Sequences
Data Handling
Probability
To describe and complete sequences
To collect and interpret data
To understand probability scale
To find the nth term of a sequence
To draw and interpret more complex charts and graphs
To calculate probabilities adding to 1
To calculate simple probabilities Term 5
Graphs
To interpret real life graphs (conversion, distance/time)
Transformations
To understand line and rotational symmetry To complete reflections, translations and rotations
To construct linear graphs from an equation
To complete enlargements
Transformation patterns (Rangoli)
Ratio
To simplify ratios
To share amounts into a ratio
To solve ratio problems
Algebra
To collect terms and simplify
To expand sets of brackets
To expand brackets
To solve equations with brackets and with fractional/negative solutions
To solve basic 2-stage equations
Number
To calculate percentages of amounts
To solve more complex questions with percentages and fractions
To solve problems involving percentages To solve problems involving fractions Term 6
Probability
Construction
Inequalities
To calculate probabilities of events
To construct triangles with one side and two angles
To understand inequality signs
To calculate probabilities using sample space diagrams
To construct all types of angles
To show an inequality on a number line
Horse Race investigation End of year written assessment
Course/
Year 7
Key Topics
What will ALL students learn?
What will the most able students learn?
What is the key piece of Assessment/Rich task?
Number
Written methods of calculations
Rounding to significant figures
Real-life percentage problem solving tasks
Year Term 1
Decimals Rounding
Percentages
Negative Numbers
To calculate percentages with and without a calculator
To calculate percentage increases and decreases
To understand the place of negative numbers
To use the rules of negative numbers for addition and multiplication
To add and subtract negative numbers
To collect like terms and simplify To expand a single bracket
To factorise a simple expression
Algebra Term 2
Averages
To expand a set of brackets
To calculate averages for discrete data
To calculate averages for grouped data
To identify properties of 2D shapes Angles
To estimate, measure and draw angles
To solve more complex angle problems
Written assessment
To use angle facts to solve basic problems
To use function machines To solve basic and 2-stage equations
To solve equations with brackets
Equations To plot coordinates in one quadrant
Coordinates Term 3
Number
To solve problems involving coordinates To identify types of numbers To use a calculator to find squares and cubes
Algebra
To plot coordinates in four quadrants
To substitute whole numbers into expressions
To use a calculator to solve more complex problems
To substitute a variety of numbers into expressions To use indices rules for multiplying and dividing
Not all students will study this topic Pythagoras
To use metric units Area & Volume
To calculate missing lengths in right angled triangles
To calculate areas of compound shapes To calculate the volume of prisms
Dotty Shapes Investigation
To calculate perimeter and area of simple shapes To calculate the volume of cuboids Term 4
Fractions
To find equivalent fractions and fractions of amounts
To solve problems involving mixed numbers
Written Assessment
To solve problems with fractions
Sequences
Data Handling
Probability
To describe and complete sequences
To collect and interpret data
To understand probability scale
To find the nth term of a sequence
To draw and interpret more complex charts and graphs
To calculate probabilities adding to 1
To calculate simple probabilities Term 5
Graphs
To interpret real life graphs (conversion, distance/time)
Transformations
To understand line and rotational symmetry To complete reflections, translations and rotations
To construct linear graphs from an equation
To complete enlargements
Transformation patterns (Rangoli)
Ratio
To simplify ratios
To share amounts into a ratio
To solve ratio problems
Algebra
To collect terms and simplify
To expand sets of brackets
To expand brackets
To solve equations with brackets and with fractional/negative solutions
To solve basic 2-stage equations
Number
To calculate percentages of amounts
To solve more complex questions with percentages and fractions
To solve problems involving percentages To solve problems involving fractions Term 6
Probability
Construction
Inequalities
To calculate probabilities of events
To construct triangles with one side and two angles
To understand inequality signs
To calculate probabilities using sample space diagrams
To construct all types of angles
To show an inequality on a number line
Horse Race investigation End of year written assessment
