Maths Year 8

Mymaths lessons and worksheets to consolidate and extend classroom learning.

Revision tasks to help students develop their reflective learning skills and to prepare themselves for the end of unit test.

A Passport task to enable students to use independent enquiry skills.

Task / Outcome / Description
Task 1:
Poster / All / Grade 1: Create a poster showing and explaining what prime numbers are.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a poster showing and explaining real life applications of prime numbers.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a poster showing and explaining the history of prime numbers and how they developed.
Task 2:
MyMaths / Please note that the topics listed below will automatically appear on student Mymaths accounts when they log in. Class teachers will advise individual students of which level they are required to complete (i.e. achieve 70% or more), however students are encouraged to attempt all levels for extension and consolidation.
All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Squares and Cubes.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Highest Common Factor.
Expert / Grade 3: Mymaths: Higher Powers.
Task 3: MyMaths / All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Factors and Primes.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Order of operations.
Expert / Grade 3/4: Mymaths: Indices 1.
Task 4: MyMaths / All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Simple Probability.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Venn Diagrams 1.
Expert / Grade 3: Mymaths: Venn Diagrams 2.
Task 5: Revision / All / Grade 1: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 1 topics in your books.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 1 topics in your books.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 1 topics in your books.
Task 6: Revision / All / Grade 1: Continued from week 5.
Challenge / Grade 2: Continued from week 5.
Expert / Grade 3: Continued from week 5.
Task 7: Passport / All / Pass: Achieve your target grade for data point 1.
Challenge / Honours: Surpass your target grade for data point 1 by one or two subgrades.
Expert / Honours: Surpass your target grade for data point 1 by one or more whole grades.
Task 8:
MyMaths / Please note that the topics listed below will automatically appear on student Mymaths accounts when they log in. Class teachers will advise individual students of which level they are required to complete (i.e. achieve 70% or more), however students are encouraged to attempt all levels for extension and consolidation.
All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Introducing negative numbers.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Negative numbers 2.
Expert / Grade 3/4: Mymaths: Substitution 1.
Task 9: MyMaths / All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Introduction to Algebra.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Algebraic thinking.
Expert / Grade 4: Mymaths: Substitution 2.
Task 10: Mymaths / All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Equations 1 – one step.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Equations 2 – multi-step.
Expert / Grade 3: Mymaths: Equations 3 – both sides.
Grade 5 extension: Mymaths: Equations 5 – fractional.
Task 11: Revision / All / Grade 1: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 2 topics in your books.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 2 topics in your books.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 2 topics in your books.
Task 12:
Research / Research and write a report on the following:
All / Explain how much Christmas dinner costs for a family of four in the UK. You must include how you found your information.
Challenge / Analyse how the cost of Christmas dinner for a family of four in the UK has changed compared to 30 years ago. You must include a comparison of costs.
Expert / Evaluate how the cost of Christmas dinner for a family of four in the UK has changed compared to 30 years ago. Things to consider: If costs have changed, why could this be? What was the average salary 30 years ago compared to today; is this relevant?
Task 13:
Worksheet / All / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 1 topics and achieve your target grade for data point 3.
Challenge / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 1 topics and surpass your target grade for data point 3 by one or two subgrades.
Expert / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 1 topics and surpass your target grade for data point 3 by one or more whole grades.
Task 14: Passport / All / Pass: Achieve your target grade for data point 4.
Challenge / Honours: Surpass your target grade for data point 4 by one or two subgrades.
Expert / Honours: Surpass your target grade for data point 4 by one or more whole grades.
Task 15:
MyMaths / Please note that the topics listed below will automatically appear on student Mymaths accounts when they log in. Class teachers will advise individual students of which level they are required to complete (i.e. achieve 70% or more), however students are encouraged to attempt all levels for extension and consolidation.
All / Grade 2: Mymaths: Angle Reasoning.
Challenge / Grade 3: Mymaths: Sum of Angles in Polygons.
Expert / Grade 3: Mymaths: Angle Proofs.
Task 16:
Revision / All / Grade 1: Create a revision poster, mind map or revision cards based on the unit 3 topics in your books.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a revision poster, mind map or revision cards based on the Unit 3 topics in your books.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a revision poster, mind map or revision cards based on the Unit 3 topics in your books.
Task 17: Worksheet / All / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 2 topics and achieve your target grade for data point 3.
Challenge / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 2 topics and surpass your target grade for data point 3 by one or two subgrades.
Expert / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 2 topics and surpass your target grade for data point 3 by one or more whole grades.
Task 18:
Research / Create a report, poster or presentation on the history of Algebra. Set 3 will need to do at least the ‘All; task. Set 2 need to do at least ‘All’ and ‘Challenge’ tasks. Set 1 need to do all three tasks. You are welcome to include other useful information, the below are suggestions to help you.
All / Where does the word Algebra originate from and what does it mean? Which civilisation was the first to use Algebra? Give at least three examples of how Algebra is used in real life.
Challenge / How are the Mathematicians’ Diophantus, Al-Khwaizmi and Descartes linked to Algebra? (Give a brief description of them as well as the work they did.)
Expert / In your opinion, which of the aforementioned Mathematicians had the biggest impact on the development of Algebra? You must justify your answer.
Task 19:
MyMaths / Please note that the topics listed below will automatically appear on student Mymaths accounts when they log in. Class teachers will advise individual students of which level they are required to complete (i.e. achieve 70% or more), however students are encouraged to attempt all levels for extension and consolidation.
All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Starting to multiply fractions.
Challenge / Grade 2: Mymaths: Multiplying fractions by fractions.
Expert / Grade 4: Mymaths: Mixed Numbers.
Task 20: Revision / All / Grade 1: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 4 topics in your books.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 4 topics in your books.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 4 topics in your books.
Task 21: Worksheet / All / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 3 topics and achieve your target grade for data point 5.
Challenge / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 3 topics and surpass your target grade for data point 5 by one or two subgrades.
Expert / Complete the worksheet based on Unit 3 topics and surpass your target grade for data point 5 by one or more whole grades.
Task 22: Passport / All / Pass: Achieve your target grade for data point 5.
Challenge / Honours: Surpass your target grade for data point 5 by one or two subgrades.
Expert / Honours: Surpass your target grade for data point 5 by one or more whole grades.
Task 23:
MyMaths / Please note that the topics listed below will automatically appear on student Mymaths accounts when they log in. Class teachers will advise individual students of which level they are required to complete (i.e. achieve 70% or more), however students are encouraged to attempt all levels for extension and consolidation.
All / Grade 1: Mymaths: Rounding Decimal Places
Challenge / Grade 2/3: Mymaths: Area of Circles
Expert / Grade 4/5: Mymaths: Arcs and Sectors
Task 24: Revision / All / Grade 1: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 5 topics in your books.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 5 topics in your books.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 5 topics in your books.
Task 25:
EOY Exam
Revision / Revise for your End Of Year exam, which is a non-calculator paper. There is a complete list of topics on Show My Homework, together with useful video links to help you revise.
Revise through these topics, whilst making revision resources. We recommend that notes on a topic should take up no more than one side of A5 paper - they should be short points of key information with examples. Keep them simple but useful. Although this task lasts for 3 weeks, your teacher will be checking your progress weekly so be prepared to show your notes in class.
The success of this task will be determined by how well you do in the exam. Work hard and get the result you deserve.
Task 26:
MyMaths / Please note that the topics listed below will automatically appear on student Mymaths accounts when they log in. Class teachers will advise individual students of which level they are required to complete (i.e. achieve 70% or more), however students are encouraged to attempt all levels for extension and consolidation.
All / Grade 2: Mymaths: All Averages.
Challenge / Grade 2/3: Mymaths: Stem and Leaf Diagrams.
Expert / Grade 4/5: Mymaths: Mean of Grouped Data 1 and 2.
Task 27: Revision / All / Grade 1: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 6 topics in your books.
Challenge / Grade 2: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 6 topics in your books.
Expert / Grade 3: Create a revision poster, mindmap or revision cards based on the Unit 6 topics in your books.
Task 28:
Independent Work / Use this week to work on a topic you have identified as an area for development. You can choose your own method of study. If you are unsure then use Mymaths as this has lessons to help you. If you are behind with any previous homework tasks then you need to come back to Maths after school to complete them.