mathematics - year 7

“Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there”

-Marcus du Sautoy, British mathematician- 

Each class at Key Stage 3 follows a slightly different scheme of work depending on ability.  Here is an example of the content that a set 2 student will be following.

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
  • Numbers and the Number System:
  • Use the concepts and vocabulary of prime numbers, factors (divisors), multiples, common factors, common multiples, highest common factor and lowest common multiple
  • Use positive integer powers and associated real roots (square, cube and higher), recognise powers of 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Recognise and use sequences of triangular, square and cube numbers, simple arithmetic progressions
  • Calculating:
  • Understand and use place value (e.g. when working with very large or very small numbers, and when calculating with decimals)
  • Apply the four operations, including formal written methods, to integers and decimals
  • Use conventional notation for priority of operations, including brackets
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations (e.g. cancellation to simplify calculations and expressions)
  • Checking, Approximating and Estimating:
  • Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy (e.g. To a specified number of decimal places or significant figures)
  • Estimate answers; check calculations using approximation and estimation, including answers obtained using technology
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations (e.g. Cancellation to simplify calculations and expressions)
  • Counting and Comparing:
  • Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions
  • Use the symbols =, ≠, , ≤, ≥
  • Visualising and Constructing:
  • Use conventional terms and notations: points, lines, vertices, edges, planes, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, polygons, regular polygons and polygons with reflection and/or rotation symmetries
  • Use the standard conventions for labelling and referring to the sides and angles of triangles
  • Draw diagrams from written description
  • Investigating Properties and shapes:
  • Identify properties of the faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of: cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres
  • Derive and apply the properties and definitions of: special types of quadrilaterals, including square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, kite and rhombus; And triangles and other plane figures using appropriate language
  • Algebraic Proficiency: Tinkering:
  • Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations, formulae and terms
  • Use and interpret algebraic notation, including: ab in place of a × b, 3y in place of y + y + y and 3 × y, a² in place of a × a, a³ in place of a × a × a, a/b in place of a ÷ b, brackets
  • Simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions by collecting like terms and multiplying a single term over a bracket
  • Where appropriate, interpret simple expressions as functions with inputs and outputs
  • Substitute numerical values into formulae and expressions
  • Use conventional notation for priority of operations, including brackets
  • Exploring Fractions, Decimals and Percentages:
  • Express one quantity as a fraction of another, where the fraction is less than 1 or greater than 1
  • Define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’
  • Express one quantity as a percentage of another
  • Proportional Reasoning:
  • Use ratio notation, including reduction to simplest form
  • Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part:part or part:whole ratio
  • Pattern Sniffing:
  • Generate terms of a sequence from a term-to-term rule
  • Measuring Space:
  • Use standard units of measure and related concepts (length, area, volume/capacity, mass, time, money, etc.) • Use standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures (including standard compound measures) using decimal quantities where appropriate
  • Change freely between related standard units (e.g. Time, length, area, volume/capacity, mass) in numerical contexts
  • Measure line segments and angles in geometric figures
  • Investigating Angles:
  • Apply the properties of angles at a point, angles at a point on a straight line, vertically opposite angles
  • Calculating Fractions, Decimals and Percentages:
  • Apply the four operations, including formal written methods, to simple fractions (proper and improper), and mixed numbers
  • Interpret percentages and percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, and interpret these multiplicatively
  • Compare two quantities using percentages
  • Solve problems involving percentage change, including percentage increase/decrease
  • Solving Equations and Inequalities:
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations (e.g. Cancellation to simplify calculations and expressions)
  • Solve linear equations in one unknown algebraically
  • Calculating Space:
  • Use standard units of measure and related concepts (length, area, volume/capacity)
  • Calculate perimeters of 2d shapes
  • Know and apply formulae to calculate area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia
  • Calculate surface area of cuboids
  • Know and apply formulae to calculate volume of cuboids
  • Mathematical Movement:
  • Work with coordinates in all four quadrants
  • Understand and use lines parallel to the axes, y = x and y = -x
  • Solve geometrical problems on coordinate axes
  • Identify, describe and construct congruent shapes including on coordinate axes, by considering rotation, reflection and translation
  • Describe translations as 2d vectors
  • Presentation of Data:
  • Interpret and construct tables, charts and diagrams, including frequency tables, bar charts, pie charts and pictograms for categorical data, vertical line charts for ungrouped discrete numerical data
  • Measuring Data:
  • Interpret, analyse and compare the distributions of data sets from univariate empirical distributions through appropriate measures of central tendency (median, mean and mode) and spread (range)
Autumn Term
  • Numbers and the Number System:
  • Use the concepts and vocabulary of prime numbers, factors (divisors), multiples, common factors, common multiples, highest common factor and lowest common multiple
  • Use positive integer powers and associated real roots (square, cube and higher), recognise powers of 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Recognise and use sequences of triangular, square and cube numbers, simple arithmetic progressions
  • Calculating:
  • Understand and use place value (e.g. when working with very large or very small numbers, and when calculating with decimals)
  • Apply the four operations, including formal written methods, to integers and decimals
  • Use conventional notation for priority of operations, including brackets
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations (e.g. cancellation to simplify calculations and expressions)
  • Checking, Approximating and Estimating:
  • Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy (e.g. To a specified number of decimal places or significant figures)
  • Estimate answers; check calculations using approximation and estimation, including answers obtained using technology
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations (e.g. Cancellation to simplify calculations and expressions)
  • Counting and Comparing:
  • Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions
  • Use the symbols =, ≠, , ≤, ≥
  • Visualising and Constructing:
  • Use conventional terms and notations: points, lines, vertices, edges, planes, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, polygons, regular polygons and polygons with reflection and/or rotation symmetries
  • Use the standard conventions for labelling and referring to the sides and angles of triangles
  • Draw diagrams from written description
  • Investigating Properties and shapes:
  • Identify properties of the faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of: cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres
  • Derive and apply the properties and definitions of: special types of quadrilaterals, including square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, kite and rhombus; And triangles and other plane figures using appropriate language
Spring Term
  • Algebraic Proficiency: Tinkering:
  • Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations, formulae and terms
  • Use and interpret algebraic notation, including: ab in place of a × b, 3y in place of y + y + y and 3 × y, a² in place of a × a, a³ in place of a × a × a, a/b in place of a ÷ b, brackets
  • Simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions by collecting like terms and multiplying a single term over a bracket
  • Where appropriate, interpret simple expressions as functions with inputs and outputs
  • Substitute numerical values into formulae and expressions
  • Use conventional notation for priority of operations, including brackets
  • Exploring Fractions, Decimals and Percentages:
  • Express one quantity as a fraction of another, where the fraction is less than 1 or greater than 1
  • Define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’
  • Express one quantity as a percentage of another
  • Proportional Reasoning:
  • Use ratio notation, including reduction to simplest form
  • Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part:part or part:whole ratio
  • Pattern Sniffing:
  • Generate terms of a sequence from a term-to-term rule
  • Measuring Space:
  • Use standard units of measure and related concepts (length, area, volume/capacity, mass, time, money, etc.) • Use standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures (including standard compound measures) using decimal quantities where appropriate
  • Change freely between related standard units (e.g. Time, length, area, volume/capacity, mass) in numerical contexts
  • Measure line segments and angles in geometric figures
  • Investigating Angles:
  • Apply the properties of angles at a point, angles at a point on a straight line, vertically opposite angles
Summer Term
  • Calculating Fractions, Decimals and Percentages:
  • Apply the four operations, including formal written methods, to simple fractions (proper and improper), and mixed numbers
  • Interpret percentages and percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, and interpret these multiplicatively
  • Compare two quantities using percentages
  • Solve problems involving percentage change, including percentage increase/decrease
  • Solving Equations and Inequalities:
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations (e.g. Cancellation to simplify calculations and expressions)
  • Solve linear equations in one unknown algebraically
  • Calculating Space:
  • Use standard units of measure and related concepts (length, area, volume/capacity)
  • Calculate perimeters of 2d shapes
  • Know and apply formulae to calculate area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia
  • Calculate surface area of cuboids
  • Know and apply formulae to calculate volume of cuboids
  • Mathematical Movement:
  • Work with coordinates in all four quadrants
  • Understand and use lines parallel to the axes, y = x and y = -x
  • Solve geometrical problems on coordinate axes
  • Identify, describe and construct congruent shapes including on coordinate axes, by considering rotation, reflection and translation
  • Describe translations as 2d vectors
  • Presentation of Data:
  • Interpret and construct tables, charts and diagrams, including frequency tables, bar charts, pie charts and pictograms for categorical data, vertical line charts for ungrouped discrete numerical data
  • Measuring Data:
  • Interpret, analyse and compare the distributions of data sets from univariate empirical distributions through appropriate measures of central tendency (median, mean and mode) and spread (range)
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