{"id":349,"date":"2017-05-09T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2025-07-16T23:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:01:45","slug":"year-8-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/year-8-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 8 Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Level: <\/strong>Year 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Length:\u00a0<\/strong>Full Year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recommended Background:&nbsp;<\/strong>Successful completion of Year 7 Mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Content<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Year 8, students engage in a range of approaches to learning and doing mathematics that develop their understanding and fluency of concepts, as well as their reasoning and problem-solving processes. Proficiency in mathematics enables students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar situations by using mathematical strategies to solve problems efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics as outlined by the Australian Curriculum are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Number \u2013 irrational numbers, exponent laws, expanding and factorising, terminating and recurring decimals, integers, percentages.<\/li><li>Algebra \u2013 linear expanding and factorising, graphing, linear functions.<\/li><li>Measurement \u2013 area, perimeter, capacity, circumference, time, rates, Pythagoras\u2019 Theorem.<\/li><li>Space \u2013 congruence, quadrilaterals, 3-D objects.<\/li><li>Statistics \u2013 census, distribution, random sampling, bias.<\/li><li>Probability \u2013 complementary events, two-way tables, tree-diagrams, Venn diagrams.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of each semester, students will be expected to sit for a year level common test. This assessment, together with other results, will be used to gauge student performance and readiness for the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assessment<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students\u2019 performance will be determined according to the subject\u2019s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes. Students will be assessed in each of the topics using a combination of tests, assignments and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Special Requirements<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A scientific calculator is required. We recommend one with an authentic display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leads to<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/year-9-mathematics\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"355\">Year 9 Mathematics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Level: Year 8 Length:\u00a0Full Year Recommended Background:&nbsp;Successful completion of Year 7 Mathematics. Content: In Year 8, students engage in a range of approaches to learning and doing mathematics that develop their understanding and fluency of concepts, as well as their reasoning and problem-solving processes. Proficiency in mathematics enables students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[33,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}