Year 7 Mathematics

PLEASE NOTE: The year 7 part of this website will be updated regularly throughout 2023 as different sections are completed.

Number & Place Value

• Expanded notation: Review
• Index notation
• Prime factor trees
• Highest Common Factor (HCF)
• Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)
• Square and cube numbers
• Square root notation
• Long multiplication
• Long division
• Comparing & ordering integers
• Adding & subtracting integers
• Why is there an order of operations (BEDMAS)
• Applying the order of operations (BEDMAS)

Fractions & Decimals

Fractions

• What are fractions
• ​Fractions as division
• Proper and improper fractions
• Equivalent fractions and simplifying
• Placing fractions on a number line
• Finding the Lowest Common Denominator (LCD)
• Adding and subtracting fractions
• Multiplying fractions
• Dividing fractions
• Problem solving with fractions

Decimals

• ​Place value
• Converting decimals to fractions
• Rounding decimal numbers
• Ordering decimal numbers
• Adding and subtracting decimal numbers
• Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
• Multiplying decimal numbers
• Dividing decimal numbers​

Money & Finance

Percentages​

• Understanding percentages
• Converting percentages {decimals and fractions}
• One quantity as a percentage of another
• Finding the percentage of a quantity
• Increasing or decreasing by a percentage​

Rates and ratios

• Expressing as ratios
• Writing ratios as fractions
• Equal ratios
• Problem solving using ratios
• Expressing as rates
• Comparing prices

Patterns & Algebra

• Key words in algebra
• Building expressions
• Collecting like terms
• Product notation
• Evaluating algebraic expressions {substitution}
• Algebraic formulae {table of values}
• Problem solving with algebra
• Geometric sequences and creating conjectures

Coordinate Geometry

• Reviewing coordinates
• Plotting points on a Cartesian plane
• Plotting points from a table of values
• Balancing equations
• Inverse operations
• Solving equations {part 1}
• Solving equations {part 2}
• Solving equations with repeated variables
• Writing equations
• Problem solving
• Properties of line graphs
• Estimating from line graphs

Measurement

Length, Area and Volume

• ​Length conversion
• Perimeter of polygons
• Square units
• Converting units of area
• Area of squares and rectangles
• Area of triangles
• Area of parallelograms
• Estimating area of irregular shapes
• Volumes of cubes and rectangular prisms
• Volume unit conversion

Transformations, Rotations and Solids

• Drawing rectangular solids
• Views of solids
• Translations
• Rotations and rotational symmetry
• Combinations of transformations​

Geometric Reasoning

• Estimating and measuring angles
• Classifying and naming angles
• Calculating angles​
• Properties of angles formed when a transversal cuts parallel lines
• Classifying triangles
• Angle sum in a triangle
• Classifying quadrilaterals
• ​Angles in a quadrilateral

Chance & Data Representation

​Data Representation

• Data collection
• Types of data

Categorical data

• Tally and frequency tables
• Column graphs
• Pie charts​

Numerical data

• Stem-and-leaf plots
• Dot plots
• Column graphs
• Tally and frequency tables​

Measuring the centre and spread

• Mean, median and mode
• Range

​Probability

• Describing probability
• Assigning numbers to probability
• Sample space
• Theoretical probability
• Tree diagrams​