Maths
Year 8 Maths
Term
Weekly Lesson Plan
- Week 1: Introduce index notation and index laws with positive integral indices and zero index (ACMNA182).
- Week 2: Practice index laws with varied numerical problems (ACMNA182).
- Week 3: Perform four operations with rational numbers and integers using mental, written and digital methods (ACMNA183).
- Week 4: Apply operations to solve problems involving rational numbers (ACMNA183).
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Explore irrational numbers, including π, and contrast with rational numbers (ACMNA186).
- Week 7: Solve percentage problems, including increases and decreases, with and without digital tools (ACMNA187).
- Week 8: Apply percentages to real-life contexts and word problems (ACMNA187).
- Week 9: Solve problems involving rates and ratios, using a range of methods and technologies (ACMNA188)
- Week 10: Assessment and review
- Week 1: Choose and convert appropriate units for area and volume (ACMMG195).
- Week 2: Calculate perimeters and areas of parallelograms, trapeziums, rhombuses, and kites (ACMMG196).
- Week 3: Investigate the relationship between circumference, area, radius and diameter of circles (ACMMG197).
- Week 4: Solve problems involving circumference and area of circles (ACMMG197).
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Develop formulas for volumes of rectangular, triangular prisms and prisms in general (ACMMG198). Use volume formulas to solve problems involving prisms (ACMMG198).
- Week 7: Solve problems involving time durations using 12- and 24-hour formats within one time zone (ACMMG199).
- Week 8: Define congruence of plane shapes using transformations (ACMMG200).
- Week 9: Develop and apply conditions for congruence of triangles (ACMMG201).
- Week 10: Use congruent triangles and angle properties to establish properties of quadrilaterals and solve related problems (ACMMG202)
- Week 11: Assessment and review
- Week 1: Solve problems involving profit and loss, with and without digital tools (ACMNA189).
- Week 2: Extend and apply the distributive law for expanding algebraic expressions (ACMNA190).
- Week 3: Factorise algebraic expressions by identifying numerical factors (ACMNA191).
- Week 4: Simplify algebraic expressions involving all four operations (ACMNA192)
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Plot linear relationships on the Cartesian plane with and without technology (ACMNA193).
- Week 7: Interpret graphs to describe linear relationships (ACMNA193).
- Week 8: Solve linear equations using algebraic techniques (ACMNA194).
- Week 9: Solve linear equations using graphical techniques, verify solutions by substitution(ACMNA194)
- Week 10: Assessment and review
- Week 1: Identify complementary events and use the sum of probabilities to solve problems (ACMSP204).
- Week 2: Describe events using 'at least', exclusive 'or', inclusive 'or', and 'and' (ACMSP205).
- Week 3: Represent events in two-way tables and Venn diagrams and solve related problems (ACMSP292).
- Week 4: Investigate data collection techniques including census, sampling, and observation (ACMSP284).
- Week 5: Assessment and review
- Week 6: Explore practicalities and implications of sampling through investigations (ACMSP206).
- Week 7: Explore variation of means and proportions of random samples from the same population (ACMSP293).
- Week 8: Investigate the effect of individual data values, including outliers, on mean and median (ACMSP207).
- Week 9: Apply probability concepts to solve practical problems
- Week 10: Assessment and review