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Year 9 Maths

Overview

Term 

What are we learning 

 

1 

Decimal Manipulation 

Estimation and Limits of Accuracy 

Related Calculations 

HCF and LCM of Large Numbers 

Fraction Calculations 

  • Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers and decimals. 
  • Manipulation of Decimals e.g. 2.54 ÷ 4, using one calculation to perform another, ordering decimals (including use of inequality symbols). 
  • Calculations involving money and correct use of units. 
  • Order of operations (BIDMAS): use conventional notation for priority of operations, including brackets, powers, roots and reciprocals. 
  • Rounding number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, and to a given number of decimal places 
  • Rounding to significant figures 
  • Estimate answers to one or two step calculations 
  • Apply sensible rounding depending on the calculation 
  • Recognise and use relationships between operations 
  • Prime numbers, prime factor decomposition, LCM, HCF (of large numbers) 
  • Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with different denominators 
  • Multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers. Simplify calculations by cancelling first 
  • Fraction of an amount 
  • Identify and work with fractions in ratio problems  
  • Express one quantity as a fraction of another, where the fraction is less than 1 or greater than 1 
  • Find the reciprocal of an integer, decimal or fraction 

2 

Algebraic Manipulation 

Index Laws 

Expanding and Factorising 

Expression and Substitution 

  • Collect like terms 
  • Multiply together two simple algebraic expressions, e.g. 2a × 3b 
  • Simplify expressions by cancelling, e.g. = 2x 
  • Add and subtract fractions with an algebraic numerator including with powers 
  • Multiply, divide and simplify algebraic fractions including with powers 
  • Simple laws of indices 
  • Use index notation when multiplying or dividing algebraic terms 
  • Use index notation for integer powers of 10, including negative powers 
  • Simplify and calculate the value of numerical expressions involving multiplication and division of integer powers, negative powers and powers of a power 
  • Understand the term reciprocal 
  • Expand single brackets  
  • Factorise - single brackets  
  • Expanding double brackets  
  • Factorising quadratics of the form x2 + bx + c  
  • Difference of two squares  
  • Use algebra to show expressions are equivalent 
  • Know the difference between an equation and an identity; argue mathematically to show algebraic expressions are equivalent, and use algebra to support and construct arguments 

3 

Percentages with a Calculator 

Proportion 

Probability 

  • Percentage of an amount (including of a measurement) with and without a calculator 
  • Percentage increase and decrease 
  • Finding the original amount (reverse percentage) with and without a calculator 
  • Work with percentages greater than 100% 
  • Compare two quantities using percentages 
  • Express one quantity as a percentage of another 
  • Use percentages in real-life situations e.g. price after VAT, value of profit or loss, simple interest, income tax 
  • Best buy 
  • Recipes 
  • Currency 
  • Unitary method 
  • Use standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures (including standard compound measures) using decimal quantities where appropriate 
  • Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, including graphical and algebraic representations 
  • Interpret equations and graphs that describe direct and inverse proportion 
  • Conversion graphs 
  • Apply systematic listing strategies 
  • Describe probability using the probability scale, tables and frequency trees 
  • Apply ideas of randomness, fairness and equally likely events to calculate expected outcomes of multiple future experiments 
  • Calculate expected outcomes 
  • Mutually exclusive events sum to one 
  • Experimental and theoretical probability 
  • Venn diagrams and appropriate notation 
  • Possibility spaces/sample spaces 
  • Find a missing probability from a list or table including algebraic terms 
  • Unbiased samples and effects of increasing sample size 
  • Sets and combinations of sets using Venn diagrams 

4 

Linear Equations 

Linear Inequalities 

Sequences 

Pythagoras 

  • Solve linear equations in one unknown algebraically, with unknowns on one side e.g. 5x - 7 = 18 
  • Solve linear equations which contain brackets, fractional coefficients, negative signs, negative solutions 
  • Substitute into a formula, and solve the resulting equation 
  • Solve linear equations in one unknown algebraically, with unknowns on both sides 
  • Form and solve algebraic equations and interpret the solution 
  • Solving linear equations that require algebraic fraction manipulation 
  • Solve linear inequalities in one variable e.g. 5x - 7 > 18 
  • Represent and interpret solution sets to inequalities on a number line 
  • Solve two inequalities in x, find the solution sets and compare them to see which value of x satisfies both 
  • Fibonacci sequences and simple geometric progressions (r^n where n is an integer, and r is a rational number > 0) 
  • Continue a geometric progression and find the term-to-term rule, including negatives, fraction and decimal terms 
  • Use finite/infinite and ascending/descending to describe sequences 
  • Recognise and use simple geometric progressions 
  • Calculate with roots, and with integer indices 
  • Pythagoras’ theorem  
  • Leave answers in surd form 
  • Given 3 sides of a triangle, justify if it is right-angled or not 
  • Apply Pythagoras’ Theorem with a triangle drawn on a coordinate grid 
  • Calculate the length of a line segment AB given pairs of points 

5 

Interior and Exterior Angles 

Parallel Lines 

Basic Vectors 

Basic Transformations 

  • Interior and exterior angles, angle sums 
  • Understand a proof that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the interior angles at the other two vertices 
  • Explain why some polygons fit together and others do not 
  • Alternate and corresponding angles on parallel lines 
  • Solve missing angle problems, giving reasons for answers 
  • Apply properties of angles in parallel lines to an algebraic context 
  • Describe translations as 2D vectors 
  • Translate a given shape by a vector 
  • Addition and subtraction of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a scalar, and diagrammatic and column representations of vectors 
  • Be able to represent information graphically given column vectors 
  • Identify two column vectors which are parallel 
  • Reflection and rotation symmetry 
  • Transformations - rotation, reflection, translation, enlargement (with a positive scale factor) 
  • Identify the equation of a line of symmetry 
  • Identify the scale factor of an enlargement of a shape as the ratio of the lengths of two corresponding sides, simple integer scale factors, or simple fractions 

6 

Plans and Elevations 

Circles 

Surface Area 

  • Identify properties of the faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres 
  •  Draw sketches of 3D solids 
  • Interpret Plans and elevations of 3D shapes 
  • Construct plans and elevations of 3D shapes 
  • Given the front and side elevations and the plan of a solid, draw a sketch of the 3D solid 
  • Circle definitions - centre, radius, chord, diameter, circumference 
  • Use Circumference of a circle = 2πr = πd and area of a circle = πr2 
  • Circle definitions including tangent, arc, sector and segment 
  • Arc lengths, angles and areas of sectors of circles 
  • Calculate exactly with multiples of π 
  • Use rearranging to calculate missing lengths given the area or circumference 
  • Estimate surface areas by rounding measurements to 1 significant figure 
  • Sketch nets of cuboids and prisms 
  • Surface area of spheres, pyramids, cones and composite solids (hemispheres, frustums) 

Links 

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