CURRICULUM

Maths

Maths Curriculum Intent

Mathematics increases students’ resilience for problem solving when they have limited information. It teaches them how to think and work systematically, critically analyse information and effectively communicate the steps within their thinking. Our curriculum adopts a ‘no tricks’ approach to teaching, developing a growth mindset: everybody can do mathematics. We aim to increase awareness and understanding of where the mathematics is used in the real world to enable our students to be ‘school ready, work, ready, life ready’.

MATHS STRANDS

Number

Number is interleaved throughout the five years. Number includes teaching students about numerical structure and calculation, fractions, decimals and percentages and measures and accuracy.

Algebra is interleaved throughout the five years. Algebra includes teaching student’s algebraic notation, vocabulary and manipulation, graphs, solving equations and inequalities and sequences.

Algebra

Ratio, Proportion, and rates of change

Students begin to learn about proportion through calculating and using fractions and percentages. They are introduced to proportion in y8 and ratio in y9. Within this content the students are taught to use ratio notation, simplify ratios, and divide quantities using ratios. In y10 and y11 this content is linked to algebra and graphs to support students understand how to calculate rates of change e.g. gradient of a line.
Geometry and measures are interleaved throughout the five years. Within this content students are taught the properties of 2D and 3D shape and how to construct them. They are also taught how to calculate perimeter, area and volume of shape and use units of measurement. They learn about angle facts and bearings and when they reach KS4 they are introduced to Pythagoras and Trigonometry to calculate missing sides and angles in triangles.

Geometry and Measures

Probability

Probability is interleaved throughout the five years. In this are of maths students learn to apply their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percentages to calculate likelihood and chance of events occurring both theoretically and experimentally. Students are taught how to use tables and diagrams such as sample space diagrams, tree diagrams and Venn diagrams to help them calculate independent and dependent events.
Statistics is interleaved throughout the five years. The core of the statistics content is to teach students both how to draw and interpret a variety of graphs and charts such as bar charts, pie charts and frequency polygons in ks3. In Ks4 students are introduced to cumulative frequency, box plots and histograms. Students are also taught about different types of data, sampling and the importance of bias.

STATISTICS

Year 7

Calculations
All students will be taught to:
• Use place value to multiply and divide by 10, 100, 1000 etc.
• Understand that division can also be written as a fraction.
• Multiply and divide integers and decimals mentally.
• Use formal written methods for short division.
• Divide any whole number by any other whole number accurately using long division.
• Multiply any whole number by any other whole number using column multiplication.
• Add and subtract using integers and decimals mentally.
• Use formal written methods for addition and subtraction.
• Understand place value from thousandths through to thousands.
• Use place value to multiply and divide by 0.1, 0.01, 0.001 etc.
• Multiply one decimal number by another using column multiplication.
• Divide decimal numbers by integers using long division.
• Understand and apply inverse operations to solve problems.
• Use estimates to check answers are reasonable.
• Know divisibility tests for the 2,4,5, 8 and 10 times tables.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to: • Know divisibility tests for the 3, 6 and 9 times tables.
• Use answers to one calculation to work out the answer for other related calculations (including division).
• Divide decimals by decimals using both long and short division.
• Understand that to divide by decimal numbers, equivalent fractions can be used to convert to an integer divisor.
• Multiply and divide integers by decimals (terminating) between 0 and 1 mentally e.g. 0.5, 0.25, 0.2.
TOPIC 1
Number Sense
All students will be taught to:
• Convert fractions to decimals accurately without a calculator.
• Order negative numbers including decimals on a number line.
• Order simple fractions and decimals on a number line.
• Place simple fractions in the correct place on a number line.
• Identify equivalent fractions and cancel fractions to their simplest form.
• Order simple fractions and decimals.
• Order negative numbers on a number line.
• Understand and apply the concept of temperature and money less than zero.
• Count forwards/backwards around zero
• Order fractions by converting to decimals/percentages.
•Convert a fraction to a percentage using a calculator.
•Convert a fraction to a percentage by writing them with a denominator of 100 and where this isn't possible, converting them to a decimal number first.
• Covert a decimal number to a fraction.
•Convert a decimal number to a percentage.
• Multiply and divide using negative numbers.
• Add and subtract with negative numbers.
• Convert fractions to decimals accurately with a calculator.
• Order fractions by writing them with a common denominator (including negative fractions). Tier 1 students will also be taught to: • Represent a given inequality on a number line. • Create an inequality from information shown on a number line. • Convert fluently between fractions, decimals, and percentages with and without a calculator. • Convert fractions to recurring decimals with and without a calculator and understand recurring decimal notation. • Complete the four operations fluently with negative numbers in context.
Topic 2
Algebraic Notation
All students will be taught to:
• Use the correct order of operations to interpret numeric calculations and algebraic expressions. (BIDMAS)
• Write an expression from a problem.
•Understand and simplify expressions through multiplication and division with more than one variable.
•Understand and simplify expressions through multiplication and division with one variable.
• Understand and simplify expressions (addition and subtraction) with more than one variable by collecting like terms.
• Understand and simplify expressions (addition and subtraction) with one variable by collecting like terms.
• Understand the difference between variables, expressions, and terms. • Use correct algebraic notation to represent unknown numbers or variables.
• Multiply out linear expressions with brackets.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Factorise any expression into a single bracket.
• Expand and simplify expressions containing more than one single bracket.
Topic 3
2D Shape, Angles and Symmetry
All students will be taught to:
• Identify the order of rotational symmetry and number of lines of reflectional symmetry within a given shape.
• Use knowledge of different types of quadrilateral to solve missing angle problems with all types of common quadrilateral.
• Use knowledge of different types of triangle to solve missing angle problems with all types of triangles.
• Be able to classify, and name angle facts, for all common quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, kite, and trapezium).
• Be able to classify, and name angle facts, for all types of triangle.
• Tessellate a shape, combinations of shapes.
• Identify which shapes tessellate.
• Identify a shape from given properties, such as line of symmetry, order of rotational symmetry, parallel sides, number of sides, angle properties etc.
• Understand and use the terms parallel and perpendicular accurately.
• Solve composite angle problems involving both triangles and quadrilaterals.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Work out the angle sum within any regular or irregular polygon when given the number of sides.
• Work out the size of each individual interior and exterior angle within a regular polygon.
• Identify exterior and interior angles of polygons.
Topic 4
Fractions
All students will be taught to:
• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators.
• Convert fluently between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Find a fraction of an amount.
• Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages with and without a calculator.
• Write one quantity as a fraction of another including when the fraction is greater and less than 1.
• Know standard fraction / decimal/ percentage equivalences (e.g. ½ = 0.5 = 50%, ¼ = 0.25 = 25%, 1/10 = 0.1 = 10%, 1/100 = 0.01 = 1%).
• Order fractions on a number line.
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. • Write a fraction in its lowest terms.
• Identify equivalent fractions.
• Multiply and divide with mixed numbers
• Add and subtract with mixed numbers.
• Multiply and divide a fraction by a fraction.
• Multiply and divide an integer by a fraction.
• Multiply and divide a fraction by an integer.
• Use calculator and non-calculator methods to find a fraction of an amount. Tier 1 students will also be taught to: • Multiply fractions such as 1/2 x 1/3 relating them to 'a half of a third'. • Understand mental arithmetic methods for multiplying and dividing by terminating decimal values between -1 and 1, linking this to fractions.
Topic 5
Time
All students will be taught to:
• Solve basic functional time problems.
• Understand a leap year and know when they occur.
• Know how many days are in each month.
• Know how to convert from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.
• Know how many days in a year, weeks in a year, days in a week, hours in a day, minutes in an hour and seconds in a minute there are.
• Convert fluently between the 12- and 24-hour clock.
• Tell the time on a digital clock.
• Tell the time on an analogue clock.
• Understand the concept of different time zones and use these to convert between instantaneous times in different countries around the world.
• Understand how to write time in different forms e.g. 1 hour 45 minutes as 1 and 3/4 of an hour or 1.75 hours.
• Solve problems that involve conversions between adjacent units of time i.e. seconds to minutes or minutes to hours.
• Solve problems using timetables.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Solve problems that involve conversions between non-adjacent units of time i.e. seconds to weeks or minutes to months. Include examples that have to take into account different numbers of days in each month and leap years.
• Solve complex planning problems that draw on other aspects of maths. e.g. planning a journey to another country to attend a meeting. Timings. costs, travel plans etc. all included.
Topic 6
Equations
All students will be taught to:
• Expand and simplify expressions containing more than one single bracket.
• Multiply out linear expressions with brackets.
• Substitute answers back into equations to check solutions.
• Set up and solve a one-step equation
• Solve a one-step linear equation
• Understand the meaning of the equals sign and its role in mathematics.
• Solve any linear 2-step equation.
Tier 1 students are also taught to:
• Understand the meaning of and difference between a variable, coefficient, term, expression, formulae, and equation.
• Set up and solve multi-step equations in a given context.
• Solve a 2-step equation involving expanding a bracket.
• Simplify and solve an equation.
Topic 7
Percentages
All students will be taught to:
• Find 5, 10, 25 and 50 percent of a quantity without a calculator.
• Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages with and without a calculator.
• Know standard fraction / decimal/ percentage equivalences (e.g. ½ = 0.5 = 50%, ¼ = 0.25 = 25%, 1/10 = 0.1 = 10%, 1/100 = 0.01 = 1%).
• Order percentages on a number line.
• Solve real-life problems using percentages.
• Increase or decrease a quantity by a percentage using a calculator using the multiplier method.
• Find any percentage of a given quantity using a calculator using the multiplier method.
• Increase or decrease a quantity by a percentage without a calculator.
• Find any percentage of a given quantity without a calculator.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Express a change in quantity as a percentage change.
• Express one quantity as a percentage of another.
Topic 8
Measure
All students will be taught to:
• Convert one metric unit to another.
• Use a protractor to measure and draw angles, including reflex angles, to the nearest degree.
• Choose which units and instruments to use for everyday measurements.
• Be able to read and interpret scales on a range of measuring instruments.
• Measure lengths accurately using a ruler.
• Draw and interpret scale drawings.
• Convert numbers using a given scale or scale factor.
•Know how to read a map scale and create scales.
• Convert between metric and imperial measures when given the conversion.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Construct a triangle given three sides, two angles and a side or two sides and the included angle.
• Convert between non-adjacent metric units, e.g. kilometres and centimetres
Topic 9
Formulae
All students will be taught to:
• Simplify expressions with more than one variable.
• Simplify expressions containing one variable.
• Write an expression from a problem.
• Use correct algebraic notation to represent unknown numbers or variables.
• Use the correct order of operations to interpret (BIDMAS)
•Interpret the information from substituting into a formula.
•Set up and substitute into a formula from given information.
• Set up a formula from given information.
• Substitute into a formula with negative integer values with and without a calculator.
• Substitute into a formula with fractional values with and without a calculator.
• Substitute into a formula with decimals with and without a calculator.
• Understand the difference between a variable, term, expression, and formula.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
•Multiply out single brackets.
• Rearrange a two-step formula.
• Rearrange a one-step formula.
• Substitute into a formula with negative non-integer values without a calculator.
Topic 10
Rounding and Estimating
All students will be taught to:
• Understand and use estimation to check the validity of answers.
• Round numbers to up to 2 decimal places.
• Approximate any number by rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000, 10 000, 100 000 or 1 000 000.
• Approximate any number with one or two decimal places by rounding to the nearest whole number.
• Solve real life problems using estimations and rounding (everything rounded to 1 significant figure).
• Round any decimal number to a given number of significant figures (including numbers between -1 and 1).
• Round any whole number to a given number of significant figures.
• Round any number to any given number of decimal places.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Express error intervals using inequalities.
• Understand the difference in the way the upper bound is expressed for discrete and continuous data.
• Identify upper and lower bounds.
Topic 11
Coordinates
All students will be taught to:
• Plot and read positive coordinates.
• Know the meaning of horizontal and vertical.
• Know how to write a coordinate.
• Be comfortable placing positive and negative numbers on a number line (written vertically and horizontally)
• Use coordinates with the properties of shapes to solve problems for missing vertices of shapes on a set of axes.
• Know the term origin and its location on a set of axes as well as the coordinate it corresponds to.
• Understand the x-axis and y-axis on a coordinate grid and know which value in a coordinate corresponds to each axis.
• Plot and read coordinates in all four quadrants.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Solve coordinate problems that use coordinates in 3 dimensions.
• Know and understand what a plane is.
• Plot and write coordinates in 3 dimensions.
• Understand that there is a third dimension, and this is represented by a z coordinate.
• Find the midpoint of a pair of coordinates.
• Draw lines parallel to the axis and understand how to write their equations.
Topic 12
Area and Perimeter
All students will be taught to:
• Find a missing length when given the area or perimeter and other lengths in a square, rectangle, or parallelogram.
• Calculate the area of simple rectilinear compound shapes.
• Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa.
• Calculate the area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms.
• Know that the area of a rectangle is given by the formula area = length × width
• Work out the perimeter of any shape (when given the measurements).
• Solve problems linking to other contexts such as cost of a gardening project that draw on using area and perimeter.
• Find a missing length when given the area or perimeter and other lengths including with triangles.
• Write an algebraic expression for the area/perimeter of a shape.
• Convert to consistent units of measurement within the metric system where necessary to solve area and perimeter problems.
•Know that when solving area and perimeter problems, the units of measurement must be consistent.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Find a missing length when given the area or perimeter and other lengths including with trapezia.
• Set up and solve equations linked to the area and perimeter of shapes.
• Find the area of a trapezium and learn the formula.
Topic 13
Data and Frequency Tables
All students will be taught to:
• Sort and classify data into sets.
• Design and use two-way tables (Carroll diagrams) for ungrouped data.
• Design and use two-way tables (Carroll diagrams) for grouped & ungrouped data.
• Complete a table from given information.
• Complete a tally chart for qualitative data.
• Group data in equal class intervals.
• Use Venn diagrams to represent sorted data.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Use inequalities for grouped data.
Topic 14
Financial Awareness
Students will be taught how:
• To calculate the annual cost of subscriptions and services
• To know and understand what constitutes the cost of living
• To be able to plan make financial decisions that take possible future events into account
• To be able to plan within a monthly budget
Topic 15
3D Shape
All students will be taught to:
• Recognise and name 3D objects.
• Recognise vertices, edges, and faces.
• Construct isometric drawings of 3D objects.
• Draw the net of a 3D object.
• Draw plans and elevations for 3D objects.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Find the surface area of a cuboid and a right-angled triangular prism.
Topic 16

Year 8

Types of Number
All students will be taught to:
• Recognise prime numbers and know tests for primes.
• Make mental estimates of the answers to calculations; use checking procedures to monitor the accuracy of their results.
• Round to any number of significant figures.
• Find factors and multiples of any number.
• Multiply and divide numbers by 01, 0.01, 0.001, 10, 100 and a 1000.
• Round a number to any number of decimal places.
• Know up to the 12 x 12 times tables and associated division facts.
• Understand and use BIDMAS
• Be able to use written methods for the four operations• Know the index laws for multiplication and division of powers with the same base (numbers only no algebra).
• Use product notation to write numbers as products of their prime factors.
• Use the concepts and vocabulary of highest common factor (HCF) and lowest common multiple (LCM).
• Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy and understand this statement.
• Know tests of divisibility for 1-10 (Not for 7)
• Estimate Square Roots
• Calculate cubes and cube roots with and without a calculator.
• Calculate square and square roots with and without a calculator.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Know the index laws for raising a power to a power (numbers only no algebra).
• Use Venn diagrams and prime factorisation to find HCF and LCM.
TOPIC 1
Algebraic Expressions
All students will be taught to:
• Multiply out linear expressions with brackets.
• Understand the difference between expressions, equations, formula, and term.
• Simplify expressions involving multiplication and division using more than one variable.
• Understand and simplify expressions with more than one variable using addition and subtraction.
• Simplify expressions with one variable using addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
• Write an expression from a problem.
• Use correct algebraic notation to represent unknown numbers or variables.
• Factorise into one bracket.
• Expand and simplify expressions containing more than one single bracket.
• Simplify algebraic expressions by cancelling down.
• Use and apply the index laws for multiplication and division to algebra problems.
• Use and apply the index laws for raising a power to a power to algebra problems.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Set up and simplify from problems involved multiplying multiple terms by other terms (thus requiring the use of expanding double brackets).
• Multiply out double brackets (quadratic expressions) - include brackets containing three terms.
Topic 2
Proportion
All students will be taught to:
• Be able to find a multiplier to use in a proportion problem.
• Find the value of a single item in a comparison problem
• Be able to recognise when two values are in proportion.
• Be able to use fractions in situations involving proportion.
• Identify when a comparison problem requires both division and multiplication
• Identify when a comparison problem can be solved using multiplication
• Identify when a comparison problem can be solved using division
• Use exchange rates to convert between currencies with a calculator.
• Identify value for money by matching prices or quantities.
• Solve proportion problems using the unitary method.
• Identify when proportional reasoning needs to be used in a real-life problem/exam question
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Be able to solve simple inverse proportion problems.
• Use comparisons to be able to identify best buys for multi-step problems. Including those where different combinations of deals can be used.
Topic 3
Angles, Polygons and Parallel Lines
All students will be taught to:
• Know the meaning of ‘regular’ polygon.
• Solve composite angle problems involving both triangles and quadrilaterals.
• Understand and use the terms parallel and perpendicular accurately.
• Tessellate a shape, combinations of shapes.
• Use knowledge of different types of quadrilateral to solve missing angle problems with all types of common quadrilateral.
• Use knowledge of different types of triangle to solve missing angle problems with all types of triangles.
• Be able to classify, and name angle facts, for all common quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, kite and trapezium).
• Be able to classify, and name angle facts, for all types of triangle.
• Calculate missing angles around a point and on a straight line.
• Identify shapes that will tessellate and explain why.
• Recognise acute, obtuse, right, and reflex angles.
• Use a protractor to measure and draw angles to the nearest degree.
• Form and solve equations to find angles 2D shapes.
• Understand and use angle notation.
• Work out the angle sum within any regular or irregular polygon when given the number of sides.
• Work out the size of each individual interior and exterior angle within a regular polygon.
•Identify exterior and interior angles of polygons.
• Identify vertically opposite angles.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Use geometric arguments in simple proofs.
• Calculate missing angles in parallel lines problems and explain reasoning
• Identify alternate, corresponding, and interior angles in parallel lines.
Topic 4
Equations
All students will be taught to:
• Substitute answers back into equations to check solutions.
• Solve 1-step equations (the coefficient and the answer may be positive or negative and fractional).
• Write an equation from a problem.
• Understand the meaning of the equals sign and its role in mathematics.
• Understand the meaning of and difference between a variable, coefficient, term, expression, formulae and equation.
• Multiply out linear expressions with brackets
• Write an expression from a problem. (express missing number problems algebraically)
• Use the correct order of operations to interpret numeric calculations and algebraic expressions. (BIDMAS)
• Solve fractional 3-step equations where the unknown once (one fraction only).
•Form and solve equations from a problem
• Solve linear equations with brackets.
• Solve 2-step equations
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Use the basic principles of substitution to set up and solve equations with unknowns on both sides. E.g. two sides of a square labelled and 3x + 5 and 6x -2. Find x
• Solve equations with the unknowns on both sides such as 3x-4 = 5 + x
Topic 5
Averages and Range
All students will be taught to:
• Calculate median, mode and range from a bar chart.
• Understand the difference between averages and range.
• Calculate the mean, median, mode and range for a set of simple numbers.
• Solve missing number problems when given certain averages or the range.
• Know which average to choose and why.
• Compare two groups’ averages in context.
• Compare two groups’ ranges in context.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Find a mean of part of a group when given the mean of the whole group and other necessary information.
• Understand how changing the data will change the averages/range.
• Calculate the mean, median, mode and range from a frequency table.
Topic 6
Fractions, Percentages and Decimals review
All students will be taught to:
• Multiply and divide with mixed numbers
• Add and subtract with mixed numbers.
• Multiply and divide a fraction by a fraction.
• Multiply and divide an integer by a fraction.
• Multiply and divide a fraction by an integer.
• Use calculator and non-calculator methods to find a fraction of an amount.
• Find 5, 10, 25 and 50 percent of a quantity without a calculator.
• Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages with and without a calculator.
• Know standard fraction / decimal/ percentage equivalences (e.g. ½ = 0.5 = 50%, ¼ = 0.25 = 25%, 1/10 = 0.1 = 10%, 1/100 = 0.01 = 1%).
• Order percentages on a number line.
• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators.
• Convert fluently between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Find a fraction of an amount.
• Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages with and without a calculator.
• Write one quantity as a fraction of another including when the fraction is greater and less than 1.
• Order fractions on a number line.
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
• Write a fraction in its lowest terms.
• Identify equivalent fractions.
• Express a change in quantity as a percentage change.
• Express one quantity as a percentage of another.
• Multiply fractions such as 1/2 x 1/3 relating them to 'a half of a third'.
• Understand mental arithmetic methods for multiplying and dividing by terminating decimal values between -1 and 1, linking this to fractions.
•Solve real-life problems using percentages.
• Increase or decrease a quantity by a percentage using a calculator using the multiplier method.
•Find any percentage of a given quantity using a calculator using the multiplier method.
• Increase or decrease a quantity by a percentage without a calculator.
• Find any percentage of a given quantity without a calculator.
Topic 7
Formulae
All students will be taught to:
•Interpret the information from substituting into a formula.
•Set up and substitute into a formula from given information.
• Set up a formula from given information.
• Substitute into a formula with negative integer values with and without a calculator.
• Substitute into a formula with fractional values with and without a calculator.
• Substitute into a formula with decimals with and without a calculator.
• Understand the meaning of the equals sign and its role in mathematics.
• Understand the difference between a variable, term, expression, equation and formula.
• Expand single brackets.
• Simplify expressions with more than one variable.
• Simplify expressions containing one variable.
• Write an expression from a problem.
• Use correct algebraic notation to represent unknown numbers or variables.
• Use the correct order of operations to interpret (BIDMAS)
• Rearrange a two-step formula.
• Rearrange a one-step formula.
• Substitute into a formula with negative non-integer values without a calculator.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Rearrange a formula with unknowns on both sides. (not situations where factorising is required to isolate the unknown).
• Rearrange a formula with more than two steps required.
• Substitute into common scientific formulae. - speed, density and pressure with the values and formulae given
Topic 8
Transformations
All students will be taught to:
• Know the meaning of ‘congruent’, ‘congruence’, ‘object’, ‘image’.
• Rotate a shape by a given amount of turn.
• Reflect shapes in a mirror line (including diagonals).
• Reflect a shape using a mirror line parallel to the axes.
• Design a shape with given symmetrical properties.
• Give the order of rotational symmetry of a 2D shape.
• Recognise reflection symmetry of 2D shapes and draw lines of symmetry on.
• Describe a rotation fully.
• Finding the centre of rotation.
• Describe a translation using vector notation.
• Understand that reflections, translations and rotations produce congruent images.
• Rotate shapes around a given centre.
• Translate a shape when given a vector.
• Understand vector notation.
• Reflect a shape when given the equation of the line of reflection (lines parallel to the axis only)
• Draw lines parallel to the axis from the equation (x = n and y = n)
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Combine reflections, rotations, and translations.
• Describe the equation of the line of reflection. (y= n, x = n, y = x and y = -x).
• Reflect shapes in the in lines such as x = 2, y = 4, y=x and y=-x.
• Understand and plot the line y = x and y = -x
Topic 9
Probability
All students will be taught to:
• Express a probability as a fraction, decimal or percentage.
• Understand probability must be between 0 and 1 and can be expressed as a fraction, decimal or percentage.
• Identify equally likely outcomes.
• Understand the vocabulary of chance including impossible, unlikely, evens, likely, certain.
• List all the possible outcomes for an experiment (e.g. rolling a dice).
• Understand the equivalence between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Understand that if the probability of an event occurring is p then the probability of it not occurring is 1 – p.
• Identify different mutually exclusive outcomes and know that the sum of these probabilities is 1.
• Know that probability is a way of measuring likeliness and that experimental probability will not always match theoretical probability.
• List all the outcomes for two successive events in a systematic way and derive probabilities from this.
• Understand the probability scale and place events on it.
• Work out the theoretical probabilities for events with equally likely outcomes.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Understand that increasing the sample size generally leads to better estimates of probability.
• Use a two-way table (sample space diagram) to find a probability.
• Use a single probability to find an estimate of frequency.
• Know how to work out the number of possible combinations for combined events.
Topic 10
Area and Perimeter
All students will be taught to:
• Solve problems linking to other contexts such as cost of a gardening project that draw on using area and perimeter.
• Find a missing length when given the area or perimeter and other lengths including with triangles. • Write an algebraic expression for the area/perimeter of a shape.
• Convert to consistent units of measurement within the metric system where necessary to solve area and perimeter problems.
•Know that when solving area and perimeter problems, the units of measurement must be consistent.
• Find a missing length when given the area or perimeter and other lengths in a square, rectangle or parallelogram.
• Calculate the area of simple rectilinear compound shapes.
• Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa.
• Calculate the area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms.
• Know that the area of a rectangle is given by the formula area = length × width
• Work out the perimeter of any shape (when given the measurements).
• Find a missing length when given the area or perimeter and other lengths including with trapezia.
• Set up and solve equations linked to the area and perimeter of shapes.
• Find the area of a trapezium and learn the formula.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Find the area and perimeter of semi circles and quarter circles.
• Leave answers for circle problems in terms of pi.
• Find the circumference of a circle.
• Find the area of a circle.
• Know the formulae for finding the area and circumference of circles
• Know and label the parts of a circle (only area, circumference, diameter and radius at this point)
Topic 11
Sequences
All students will be taught to:
• Continue a non-numerical sequence.
• Recognise and continue non-linear sequences.
• Continue a sequence of numbers (including decimals, fractions, and negatives).
• Calculate cubes and cube roots with and without a calculator.
• Recognise the squares of numbers to 12x12 and the corresponding roots.
• Know and understand the language even, odd, prime, factor, multiple.
• Begin to write expressions for position-to-term rule (nth term).
• Be given the position-to-term rule and write the terms of the sequence.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Prove or disprove that a term is in a sequence by solving.
• Be given the position-to-term rule for non-linear sequences and write the terms of the sequence.
Topic 12
Volume and Surface Area
All students will be taught to:
• Construct isometric drawings of 3D objects.
• Visualise and describe the properties of 3D shapes (number of edges, vertices, and faces).
• Recognise and name 3D objects.
• Recognise vertices, edges, and faces.
• Find the area of squares, rectangles, triangles, and parallelograms.
• Recognise and sketch nets of 3D shapes.
• Draw plans and elevations for 3D objects
• Find a missing length in a volume question
• Use area to find the volume of a prism and vice versa
• Find the volume of rectangular, square, trapezia, triangular and parallelogram-based prisms
• Find the surface area of a cuboid and a right-angled triangular prism.
• Find the volume by counting cubes and stating units.
(Know the units for volume and the abbreviations cm3 and m3)
• Use the area of shapes to find other dimensions
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Find the surface area of a cylinder
• Find the volume of a cylinder
• Solve algebraic problems including Volume/Surface Area (linear algebraic equations)
• Know the formulae for circumference and area of a circle.
• Recognise the symbol π and understand the number it represents to at least 2.d.p.
Topic 13
Financial Awareness
All students are taught to:
• Be able to understand bank statements, what a balance, credit and debit is.
• Understand wages and how much of their salary they see after tax and National Insurance.
• Understand pensions and other deductible amounts from their wage.
• Distinguish between the public and private sector, and understand the profit and loss of a business.
Topic 14
Kinematics
All students will be taught to:
• Convert between metric and imperial measures when given the conversion.
• Convert fluently between metric units of length.
• Convert fluently between metric units of mass.
• Convert fluently between metric units of volume/capacity.
• Know the conversions for units of metric measurement.
• Solve worded number problems with or without a calculator and with numbers of any type (money, time etc).
• Fluently recall time conversions.
•Know the connection between speed, distance and time and use the speed = distance / time formula in simple 1-stage problems.
• Read/Solve problems using a conversion graph.
•Convert between non-adjacent metric units, e.g. kilometres and centimetres.
• Convert to consistent units of measurement within the metric system where necessary to solve a problem.
•Identify when it is necessary to convert quantities in order to use a sensible unit of measure.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
• Find the average speed over a distance time graph.
•Know the connection between speed, distance and time and use the speed = distance / time formula for multi-stage problems.
• Describe a journey from a given distance/displacement time graph.
• Draw a distance/displacement time graph.
• Understand the difference between distance and displacement.
Topic 15
Constructions and Congruence
All students will be taught to:
• Construct both angle, line and point to line bisections.
• Apply bisections to problems.
• Construct a locus of a given area.
• Construct congruent triangles using ASA, SAS, SSS & RHS.
• Prove two triangles are congruent using the rules ASA, SAS, SSS or RHS.
• Know the difference between congruent and similar shapes.
• Know what similar and congruent mean.
Tier 1 students will also be taught to:
Apply congruence, similarity, and triangle constructions to solve problems.
• Construct a locus of a points from a fixed point, line or shape.
• Apply bisections and loci to solve problems.
Topic 16

Year 9

Foundation
Higher
Types of Number (Decimals and Indices)
All students will be taught to:
• Know how to find LCM and HCF using Venn Diagrams.
• Know what HCF and LCM are and how to use them to solve problems.
• Know the definitions of multiples, factors, and prime numbers.
• Know the cube numbers from 1 - 6 and square numbers from 1 - 15.
• Know that square numbers can have both a positive and a negative root.
• Be able to multiply and divide by powers of 10 (inc. 10, 100, 1000, 0.1, 0.01, 0.001)
• Understand decimal place value.
• Be able to convert large and small numbers to standard form and vice versa.
• Calculate with numbers in index form i.e. 43 + 52
• Be able to use a calculator.
• Round a number to the nearest whole number.
• Round a number to a given decimal place.
• Round a number to a given number of significant places.
• Use approximations to 1 significant figure to estimate answers.
TOPIC 1
Algebraic Expressions
All students will be taught to:
• Be able to simplify an expression involving sums, products, and powers
• Expand a single and double bracket.
• Expand a bracket and simplify.
• Factorise a linear expression.
• Substitute values into expressions and equations
• Rearrange equations to change the subject of a formula
• Form an expression
• Form an equation to solve a problem.
• Recognise and calculate with algebra using index notation.
• Know the index laws for multiplication and division of powers with the same base.
Topic 2
Proportion
All students will be taught to:
• Understand direct proportion
• Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, understand a graphical representation of something in direct proportion.
• Use and convert standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures (including standard compound measures) using decimal quantities where appropriate.
• Use a multiplier when solving problems involving direct proportion or proportional increase/decrease.
• Use comparisons to be able to identify best buys for multi-step problems. Including those where different combinations of deals can be used.
Topic 3
Averages
All students will be taught to:
• Find the mean, median and mode from a list of data.
• Know when to use each average and why.
• Find the mode and median from frequency data.
• Find the mean from a frequency table.
• Find the mean, mode, median and range from a bar chart.
• Find the interval that contains the model group from grouped data.
• Find the interval that contains the median from grouped data.
• Find the estimated mean from grouped frequency data.
Topic 4
Ratio
All students will be taught to:
• Understand what a ratio means and its link to fraction notation.
• Understand what a ratio means and its link to proportion
• Simplify ratios and understand equivalence between ratios.
• Write a ratio from a worded problem.
• Simplify a 2 or 3 part ratio
• Write a ratio in the form 1: n and n: 1
• Divide a quantity into a 2 or 3 part ratio
• Use ratio notation to work out the whole amount shared (Part to whole).
• Use ratio to find a quantity when other quantities are known (part to part).
Topic 5
Area and Perimeter
All students will be taught to:
• Use standard formulae to solve problems involving areas of parallelograms, triangles, trapezia, and compound shapes.
• Know and recognise the parts of circle.
• Know and apply the formulae for area of a circle.
• Know and apply the formulae for circumference of a circle.
• Work backwards in a circle problem to find the radius or the diameter.
• Solve a circle problem, leaving answers in terms of pi.
Topic 6
Fractions
All students will be taught to:
• Know and find equivalent fractions.
• Simplify a fraction.
• Convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions.
• Multiply fractions.
• Divide fractions.
• Find a fraction of an amount.
• Add and subtract proper, improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Use a scientific calculator to calculate with fractions, both positive and negative.
Topic 7
Solving Equations
All students will be taught to:
• Know the difference between an expression, an identity, and an equation.
• Write an expression and an equation.
• Expand two brackets and simplify. eg 2(x+4) - 3(x+2).
• Solve one and two step linear equations using 1 variable. • Apply solving linear equations to other aspects of maths
Topic 8
Frequency Diagrams
All students will be taught to:
• Draw and interpret two-way tables
• Complete and interpret frequency trees
• Draw dual and composite bar charts
• Draw and interpret line graphs.
• Draw and interpret Venn Diagrams.
• Compare and contrast the same type of and different types of frequency diagram
• Interpret specific information from a frequency diagram including mode, total frequency, highest and lowest value etc.
Topic 9
Percentages
All students will be taught to:
• Understand fractions or percentages as operators.
• Calculate a fraction or percentage of an amount.
• Write one amount as a fraction or percentage of another.
• Calculate a percentage change.
• Calculate a percentage increase or decrease.
• Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages and understand their equivalence.
Topic 10
Inequalities
All students will be taught to:
• Know and understand the inequality symbols < ≤ > ≥ = ≡.:
• Find integer solutions to an inequality.:
• Solve a linear inequality.:
• Represent inequalities on a number line.
Topic 11
Pie Charts and Scatter Diagrams
All students will be taught to:
• Understand that pie charts are used to show proportions.
• Use a template to construct a pie chart by scaling frequencies.
• Construct pie charts when the total frequency is not a factor of 360.
• Interpret data shown on in a pie chart.
• Plot a scatter diagram.
• Understand the meaning of ‘correlation’.
• Identify positive, negative and no correlation.
• Interpret a scatter diagram using understanding of correlation.
• Understand that correlation does not indicate causation.
• Construct a line of best fit on a scatter diagram.
• Use a line of best fit to estimate values.
• Know when it is appropriate to use a line of best fit to estimate values.
• Choose appropriate graphs or charts to represent data.
Topic 12
Linear Graphs
All students will be taught to:
• Work with co-ordinates in all four quadrants.
• Draw the lines, y=x, y=-x, y=n and x=n and understand which lines are parallel to the axes.
• Draw a line in the format y=mx + c.
• Find the gradient of a straight line from the equation and graph.
• Deduce the equation of a straight line and write it in the form y=mx+c.
• Use the linear equation to identify parallel lines.
Topic 13
Scale Drawing, Nets and Plans and Elevations
All students will be taught to:
• Understand what a scale factor is.
• Use scale factors to solve problems.
• Convert between miles and kilometres when given the conversion.
• Draw & interpret plans and elevations.
• Draw and identify nets of shapes.
Topic 14
Financial Awareness
All students will be taught to:
• Understand the importance of their Credit Rating and how this affects their financial options.
• Understand that borrowing money costs interest and be able to calculate monthly interest charges.
• Understand that Buy Now Pay Later schemes and Store Cards are forms of credit which can lead to debt.
• Understand how Payday Loans work.
• Calculate interest charges on Payday Loans.
• Understand the dangers of falling into debt associated with gambling.
• Understand that probabilities when gambling are never favourable.
Topic 15
Volume
All students will be taught to:
• Identify 3D shapes from both picture and description.
• Find the Volume of a prism by counting squares and by calculation.
• Find the Volume of a cylinder.
• Solve problems involving Volume.
Topic 16
Probability
All students will be taught to:
•Write probabilities in words, fractions, decimals and percentages and place these on a scale from 0 to 1.
• Compare the probabilities of events by comparing sizes of fractions, decimals, and percentages.
•Systematically list all outcomes for single and combined events.
•Use and draw sample space diagrams.
• Use theoretical models to include outcomes using dice, spinners, and coins.
Topic 17

Year 10

Foundation
Higher
Factors Multiples and Primes
All students will be taught to:
• Identify factors, multiples and primes including being able to recognise prime numbers up to 100.
• List factors and multiples systematically and use lists to find common factors and multiples of two numbers.
• Find the prime factor decomposition of a positive integer and write as a product of its prime factors (understand that each number has a unique prime factor decomposition).
• Find LCM and HCF of two numbers: by listing, Venn diagrams, and using prime numbers – including using the prime factor decomposition of two numbers.
TOPIC 1
Equations
All students will be taught to:
• Solve one and two step linear equations using 1 variable.
• Solve any linear equation where the unknown appears once - including with brackets or fractions.
• Solve an equation with unknowns on both sides.
• Apply solving linear equations to other aspects of maths.
Topic 2
Indices
All students will be taught to:
• Understand and use index notation including finding (or estimating) values of calculations involving square roots, cube roots, and positive indices.
• Use indices correctly in the hierarchy of operations including with brackets.
• Use the index law for raising a power to a power.
• Recall and use the index laws of multiplication and division.
• Use a calculator for all operations including powers, roots, and brackets.
Topic 3
Angles and Bearings
All students will be taught to:
• Use the standard conventions for labelling and referring to the sides and angles of a triangle.
• Apply the properties of angles at a point, on a straight line, vertically opposite angles, including when represented algebraically.
• Understand and use alternate, co-interior and corresponding angles on parallel lines.
• Derive and use the sum of angles in a triangle to deduce and use the angle sum in any polygon, and to derive properties of regular polygons.
• Measure, draw and read bearings.
• Know the difference between an angle and a bearing.
• Calculate bearings from problems using parallel lines angle facts.
• Know compass directions and related angles.
• Know that Bearings are always given as 3 figures and measured clockwise from North.
• Understand and use the scale for distance on a map.
Topic 4
Ratio
All students will be taught to:
•Understand the link between ratio and fractions and be able to use fractions to solve ratio problems.
•Use ratio notation, including reduction to simplest form.
•Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part: part or part: whole ratio; apply ratio to real contexts and problems.
• Write three part or two-part ratios by combining two other ratios e.g. Find A: C given A: B and B: A.
•Apply ratio to real contexts and problems (such as those involving conversion, comparison, scaling, mixing, concentrations)
• Relate ratios to linear functions
Topic 5
Sequences
All students will be taught to:
• Generate terms of a sequence from a term-to-term rule.
• Generate terms of a sequence from a position-to-term rule.
• Find the term-to-term rule and position-to-term rule for a linear sequence.
• Recognise and use sequences of triangular, square and cube numbers, simple arithmetic progressions.
• Recognise and use Fibonacci type sequences and quadratic sequences.
Topic 6
Types of data, sampling and Bias
All students will be taught to:
•Be able to describe and identify different types of data: qualitative, quantitaive, discrete, continuous, primary and secondary.
•Use the data handling cycle to plan an investigation to test a hypothesis.
•Design or criticise a suitable data collection sheet for different types of data.
•Understand what is meant by a sample and population and how sample sizes and type of sample can affect results.
•Know and be able to use different types of sampling including stratified sampling.
•Understand bias and how it can be minimised to ensure the sample is representative.
Topic 7
Formulae
All students will be taught to:
• Know the hierarchy of operations and be able to use this to form expressions and formulae.
• Substitute numerical values into scientific formulae.
• Understand and use standard mathematical formulae.
• Rearrange formulae to change the subject.
• Change the subject of a formula with brackets or when the subject appears twice.
• Translate simple situations or procedures into algebraic formulae.
Topic 8
Proportion
All students will be taught to:
• Understand direct proportion and its link to equivalent ratios.
• Use and convert standard units of mass, length, time, money, and other measures (including standard compound measures) using decimal quantities where appropriate.
• Use a multiplier when solving problems involving direct proportion or proportional increase/decrease.
• Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, including graphical and algebraic representations.
• Understand that x is inversely proportional to y is equivalent to x is proportional to 1/y
• interpret equations that describe inverse and direct proportion
Topic 9
Similarity and Congruence
All students will be taught to:
•Be able to identify congruent shapes, and to show that two shapes are congruent.
•Be able to produce a congruent shape by reflecting, rotating, or translating a shape and understand why it is congruent.
•Be able to produce similar shapes by enlargement – including with a fractional scale factor and explain why these shapes are similar.
•Solve problems involving similar shapes where the scale factor is known or can be found.
•Compare lengths using ratio notation.
•Use and convert units of metric units of length, area and volume e.g. cm2 to m2
•Apply the concepts of congruence and similarity, including the relationships between lengths of similar objects.
Topic 10
Compound Units
All students will be taught to:
•Use compound units such as speed and rates of pay.
•Use compound units such as density and pressure.
•Change freely between compound units e.g. from km/h to metres/second or from wage per hour to wage per annum.
•Change freely between compound units (e.g. density, pressure) in numerical and algebraic contexts.
• Draw and interpret a distance-time graph.
• Draw and interpret any compound measures graph (e.g. cost per mile for a taxi company).
Topic 11
Factorising Quadratics
All students will be taught to:
• Simplify an expression - including the laws of indices.
• Multiply a term over a single bracket.
• Factorise a linear expression by taking out a common factor.
• Expand the product of two linear brackets.
• Factorise a quadratic expression of the form x² + bx + c.
• Factorise the difference of two squares.
Topic 12
Pythagoras’ Theorem
All students will be taught to:
• Identify and label different parts of a triangle including the hypotenuse and use conventional notation for this.
• Recall and use the formula a²+b²=c²to find the hypotenuse right angled triangle.
• Recall and use the formula a²+b²=c² to find one of the shorter side lengths of a right-angled triangle.
• Be able to use the formula a²+b²=c²to show whether a triangle is right-angled or not.
• Use Pythagoras’ theorem in context or to solve other geometrical problems - for example to find the distance between two coordinates.
Topic 13
Fractions Decimals and Percentages
All students will be taught to:
• Understand and find a reciprocal.
• Perform all four operations with decimals.
• Perform all four operations with fractions.
• Convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Find a fraction of a quantity.
• Convert fluently between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Find a percentage of a quantity.
• Increase or decrease a quantity by a given percentage.
• Calculate a repeated percentage change.
• Calculate a change in quantity as a percentage change.
• Calculate reverse percentages
Topic 14
Linear and Quadratic Functions
All students will be taught to:
• Generate and plot coordinates for any linear function.
• Recognise that y=mx+c corresponds to a linear graph and know how the parts of this equation determine the line.
• Calculate the gradient of a straight-line segment using dy/dx.
• Be able to find the equation of any straight line. • Recognise and plot simple quadratic functions
Topic 15
Surface Area and Volume
All students will be taught to:
• Identify properties of the faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres.
• Know and understand units for volume, area and length.
• Use standard formulae to solve problems involving areas of parallelograms, triangles and trapezia.
• Calculate area and circumference of circles.
• Calculate the volume of any prism.
• Calculate the surface area of any prism.
• Find the surface area and volume of composite solids.
• Calculate the volume of spheres, cones, and pyramids.
• Calculate the surface area of spheres, cones, and pyramids.
Topic 16
Probability
All students will be taught to:
• Compare the probabilities of events by comparing sizes of fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Use theoretical models to include outcomes using dice, spinners, and coins.
• Record outcomes of probability experiments in tables.
• Compare experimental data and theoretical probabilities.
• Compare relative frequencies from samples of different sizes.
• Find the probability of an event happening using relative frequency.
•Estimate the number of times an event will occur, given the probability and the number of trials - both for experimental and theoretical probabilities.
• Use two way tables and frequency trees to record information and calculate probabilities.
Topic 17
Financial Awareness
All students will be taught to:
• Be able to understand the real-life cost of renting a property.
• Understand what a mortgage is and what interest rates mean.
• Understand how a student loan works, on be able to work out what sort of support they can get at university
• Work out the cost of financing a car. Students will understand the different payment options available to them.
Topic 18

Year 11

Foundation
Higher
Fractions Decimals and Percentages
All students will be taught to:
• Perform all four operations with decimals.
• Perform all four operations with fractions.
• Convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Find a fraction of a quantity.
• Convert fluently between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Find a percentage of a quantity.
• Increase or decrease a quantity by a given percentage. • Calculate a repeated percentage change.
• Calculate a change in quantity as a percentage change.
• Calculate simple reverse percentage changes.
• Calculate compound percentage change.
TOPIC 1
Probability Trees and Venn Diagrams
All students will be taught to:
• Combine probabilities by multiplying them together for simple experiments.
• Draw and use tree diagrams to calculate the probability of two independent events.
• Draw and use tree diagrams to calculate the probability of two dependent events.
• Know how to place elements in Venn diagrams with 2 sets, according to their properties.
• Understand the notation for intersection and union, and which regions these statements apply to in a Venn diagram.
• Use set notation to find probabilities from a Venn diagram.
Topic 2
Powers. Roots and Standard form
All students will be taught to:
• Use indices correctly in the hierarchy of operations including with brackets, with and without a calculator.
• Recall and use the index laws of multiplication, division and powers of powers.
• Interpret and compare numbers in standard form a x 10n 1≤a<10 and n is a positive of negative integer.
• Calculate with numbers in standard form.
• Interpret a calculator display in standard form and know how to enter numbers in standard form.
• Recall and use square numbers and square roots up to 15 squared.
• Simplify expressions in the form √y x √y or (√y)2. • Simplify expressions involving surds such as x√a + y√a.
• Expand and Simplify expressions involving surds and brackets such as a(√x + b).
Topic 3
Sequences
All students will be taught to:
• Generate a sequence given an nth term and find an nth term of a given sequence.
• Recognise, use and continue non-linear sequences such as Fibonacci chains, cube numbers and triangular numbers.
• Recognise and continue simple geometric progressions such as 2n.
Topic 4
Arcs and Sectors
All students will be taught to:
• Know and recognise the parts of circle.
• Know and apply the formulae for area of a circle and circumference of a circle.
• Calculate the perimeter of composite shapes that include sections of a circle.
• Calculate the area of composite shapes that include sections of a circle.
• Know how to find arc length.
• Calculate the angle of a sector when radius is given.
• Know how to find the area of a sector.
• Know how to solve problems involving arc length and area of sectors.
• Know the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder. • Calculate the volume of a cylinder.
Topic 5
Simultaneous Equations and Inequalities
All students will be taught to:
• Generate and plot coordinates and draw the graph of any linear function.
• Recognise that y=mx+c corresponds to a linear graph and know how the parts of this equation determine the line.
• Solve any linear equation including those with brackets or where the unknown appears as a denominator.
• Solve linear equations where the unknown appears twice.
• Use elimination to solve a pair of simultaneous equations, including those where one or both equations need to be multiplied.
• Form a pair of simultaneous equations from a worded question, or from a geometric diagram.
• Plot a pair of simultaneous equations on a set of axes and know that the point of intersection is the solution for that pair of equations.
• Know the symbols < ≤ > ≥ = ≡
• Represent inequalities on a number line.
• Solve an inequality.
Topic 6
Ratio
All students will be taught to:
•Understand the link between ratio and fractions and be able to use fractions to solve ratio problems.
•Use ratio notation, including reduction to simplest form.
•Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part: part or part: whole ratio; apply ratio to real contexts and problems.
• Write three part or two-part ratios by combining two other ratios e.g. Find A: C given A: B and B: A.
•Apply ratio to real contexts and problems (such as those involving conversion, comparison, scaling, mixing, concentrations)
• Relate ratios to linear functions
Topic 7
Topic 8
Quadratics
All students will be taught to:
• Expand single brackets/factorise linear expressions.
• Expand double brackets (using grid method) to produce a quadratic expression/equation.
• Solve a quadratic equation of the form x² + bx + c by factorising.
• Solve a quadratic equation of the form ax² + bx + c by factorising.
• Draw a quadratic graph including graphs with a negative coefficient of x².
• Find approximate solutions to quadratic equations using a graph.
• Deduce roots of quadratic functions algebraically.
• Be able to use a quadratic graph to find roots and turning points (minimum and maximum points).
• Solve problems that involve solving a quadratic (by factorising) equation in context.
Topic 8
Topic 8
Other Graphs
All students will be taught to:
• Recognise, sketch and interpret graphs of linear and quadratic functions.
• Recognise, sketch and interpret graphs of cubic functions, the reciprocal function y = 1/x.
• Plot and interpret graphs in real contexts to find approximate solutions to problems.
Topic 9
Vectors
All students will be taught to:
• Describe vectors as 2D translations.
• Add and subtract column vectors and multiply column vectors by a scalar.
• Add and subtract diagrammatic vectors and multiply diagrammatic vectors by a scalar.
• Recognise that when one vector is a scalar multiple of another then the lines will be parallel.
Topic 10
Averages
All students will be taught to:
• Find the mean, median and mode from a list of data.
• Know when to use each average and why.
• Use the mean to find a missing number in a set of data
• Understand the range as a measure of spread (or consistency)
• Make comparisons using averages or the range
• Estimate the range from a grouped and ungrouped frequency table
• Find the mode and median from a frequency table.
• Find the mean from a frequency table.
• Find the interval that contains the modal group median from grouped data.
• Find the estimated mean from grouped frequency data.
• Find any average from a range of graphs and diagrams.
Topic 11
Pythagoras Recap and Trigonometry
All students will be taught to:
• Recall and use the formula a²+b²=c² to find the hypotenuse right angled triangle and one of the shorter side lengths of a right-angled triangle.
• Use Pythagoras’ theorem in context or to solve other geometrical problems - for example to find the distance between two coordinates.
• Choose an appropriate trigonometric ratio that can be used in a given situation.
• Understand that sine, cosine and tangent are functions of an angle.
• Know the trigonometric ratios, sinθ = opp/hyp, cosθ = adj/hyp, tanθ = opp/adj.
• Set up and solve a trigonometric equation to find a missing side in a right-angled triangle.
• Set up and solve a trigonometric equation to find a missing angle in a right-angled triangle.
Topic 12
Constructions and Loci
All students will be taught to:
• Use the angle facts for points, lines, parallel and intersecting lines, and regular polygons.
• Know what similar and congruent mean.
• Construct congruent triangles using ASA, SAS, SSS & RHS.
• Prove two tringles are congruent using the rules ASA, SAS, SSS or RHS.
• Apply congruence, similarity, and triangle constructions to solve problems.
• Know the difference between congruent and similar shapes.
• Construct both angle, line and point to line bisections.
• Construct a locus of a points from a fixed point, line or shape.
• Apply bisections and loci to solve problems.
Topic 13

Important Information

Dear Parents/Carers

Please note the College is open today and Year 11 will be expected on site for their Mock Examinations. However, for Years 7 to 10, if you cannot get your child to school safely today, then please ensure that they access remote learning via Teams. For safeguarding purposes, please email in to info@horizoncc.co.uk if your child is not going to be in and will be accessing Teams.

Any child who accesses Teams remotely today will receive a present attendance mark of a B code (educated off-site). If your child does not access Teams then they will be classified as absent Please note that attendance codes will be updated throughout the day.

Mrs Huddart

Principal

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