Mathematics · Key Stage 3 · £4.99
Year 8 Mathematics
Scheme of Work
Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from Year 9 and forwards from Year 7. Probability appears here, as Year 7’s coverage note promised, with fractions a year old.
£4.99The Year 8 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 32 pages
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- 1aProportional Reasoning: Rates and Change
- 1bLinear Relationships and Graphs
- 2aIndices, Primes and the Structure of Number
- 2bArea, Volume and Surface Area
- 3aProbability
- 3bAlgebraic Manipulation: Brackets and Factorising
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Phases rather than single lessons, because mathematics is timetabled at three to four hours a week.
One principle applies to every unit and is stated once at the front: a method a student cannot explain is a method they will lose. Reasoning is required at every step.
Every duration, context and assessment word is a strong default rather than a fixed rule. Year 8 means ages 12–13, or S1–S2 in Scotland.
- Written to
- The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 mathematics (DfE, 2013)
- Intended for
- heads of mathematics, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent
- 32 pages · 10 sections
The sequence
What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit
The 6 units of the Year 8 Mathematics Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.
1a
Proportional Reasoning: Rates and Change
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
If something goes up 20% and then down 20%, where does it end up?
1b
Linear Relationships and Graphs
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
What does a straight line on a graph actually tell you?
2a
Indices, Primes and the Structure of Number
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Why is every whole number built from primes in exactly one way?
2b
Area, Volume and Surface Area
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
Why does doubling the sides of a shape not double its area?
3a
Probability
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
If a coin lands heads five times in a row, what is it more likely to do next?
3b
Algebraic Manipulation: Brackets and Factorising
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
Why is 3(x + 2) the same as 3x + 6, and how would you convince someone?
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