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Year 8 Maths Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Constructions
- Bisecting an angle Study Guide
- Checking compass skills Study Guide
- Constructing rhombi Study Guide
- Constructing triangles Study Guide
- Diagonals of a rhombus Study Guide
- Perpendicular bisector of a line segment Study Guide
- Perpendicular to a given line through a given point Study Guide
- Problem solving with constructions Study Guide
- Securing the skill of using a pair of compasses Study Guide
- Understanding constructing a circle Study Guide
Estimation and rounding
- Checking by estimating Study Guide
- Checking understanding of rounding Study Guide
- Degrees of accuracy Study Guide
- Estimating numerical calculations Study Guide
- Inequality notation to express error Study Guide
- Overestimating vs underestimating Study Guide
- Problem solving with estimation and rounding Study Guide
- Rounding decimals to significant figures Study Guide
- Rounding errors Study Guide
- Rounding integers to one significant figure Study Guide
- Rounding integers to significant figures Study Guide
- Rounding to any number of decimal places Study Guide
- Rounding to three decimal places Study Guide
- Securing understanding of rounding Study Guide
- Truncating Study Guide
- Using inequality notation for errors in calculations Study Guide
Geometrical properties: polygons
- Alternate angles Study Guide
- Angles on parallel lines traversed by a straight line Study Guide
- Checking understanding of angles from KS2 Study Guide
- Co-interior angles Study Guide
- Corresponding angles Study Guide
- Deriving the sum of interior angles in multiple ways Study Guide
- Exterior angles of polygons Study Guide
- Formal angle notation Study Guide
- Formalising understanding of triangles from KS2 Study Guide
- Interior and exterior angles of regular polygons Study Guide
- Interior angles of a polygon Study Guide
- Missing angles Study Guide
- Problem solving with polygons Study Guide
- Securing understanding of angles from KS2 Study Guide
- The sum of the interior angles of any triangle Study Guide
- Using the sum of the interior angles of a triangle Study Guide
Graphical representations of data
- Checking understanding of pictograms and bar charts Study Guide
- Constructing bar charts by utilising technology Study Guide
- Constructing pie charts Study Guide
- Constructing pie charts by utilising technology Study Guide
- Constructing scatter graphs Study Guide
- Constructing scatter graphs by utilising technology Study Guide
- Interpreting pie charts Study Guide
- Interpreting scatter graphs Study Guide
- Problem solving with graphical representations of data Study Guide
- Securing constructing bar charts by hand Study Guide
- Securing constructing pictograms Study Guide
Graphical representations of linear equations
- Checking and securing plotting a relationship Study Guide
- Checking and securing understanding of plotting coordinates Study Guide
- Checking and securing understanding of plotting coordinates generated from a rule Study Guide
- Checking and securing understanding of plotting coordinates with technology Study Guide
- Defining features of linear relationships Study Guide
- Features of linear relationships Study Guide
- Finding the equation of the line ay + bx + c = 0 Study Guide
- Finding the equation of the line y = mx + c Study Guide
- Negative rate of change from a graph Study Guide
- Positive rate of change from a graph Study Guide
- Problem solving with graphing linear relationships Study Guide
- Rate of change from a coordinate pair Study Guide
- The equation of a straight line Study Guide
- The intercept point Study Guide
- Using dynamic software to explore linear relationships Study Guide
Numerical summaries of data
- Analysing different statistical representations Study Guide
- Calculating the mean Study Guide
- Calculating the median Study Guide
- Calculating the mode Study Guide
- Changing a data point Study Guide
- Checking understanding of the mean Study Guide
- Comparing statistical representations Study Guide
- Comparing summaries of data Study Guide
- Correlation Study Guide
- Evaluating the range Study Guide
- Problem solving with numerical summaries of data Study Guide
- Statistical problems - data collection Study Guide
- Statistical problems - data presentations Study Guide
- Statistical problems - drawing conclusions Study Guide
- Statistical problems - statistical summaries Study Guide
- Summarising data Study Guide
- Understanding and calculating the range Study Guide
- Understanding the median Study Guide
- Understanding the mode Study Guide
Perimeter, area and volume
- Area of a circle Study Guide
- Area of composite shapes Study Guide
- Checking understanding of area Study Guide
- Checking understanding of perimeter Study Guide
- Circumference of a circle Study Guide
- Finding a length in composite shapes Study Guide
- Multiplicative relationships in circles Study Guide
- Perimeter of composite shapes Study Guide
- Problem solving with perimeter, area and volume Study Guide
- Properties of prisms Study Guide
- Surface area of cuboids Study Guide
- Surface area of cylinders Study Guide
- Surface area of prisms Study Guide
- Using the formula for the area of a circle Study Guide
- Volume of cylinders Study Guide
- Volume of prisms Study Guide
Sequences
- Arithmetic sequences Study Guide
- Calculating any term Study Guide
- Checking understanding of sequences Study Guide
- Expressing an arithmetic sequence Study Guide
- Finding the nth term Study Guide
- Formalising a sequence Study Guide
- Generating a sequence using a position-to-term rule Study Guide
- Generating a sequence using a term-to-term rule Study Guide
- Justifying terms of a sequence Study Guide
- Problem solving with sequences Study Guide
- Representing sequences graphically Study Guide
- Securing understanding of sequences Study Guide
Solving linear equations
- Brackets in equations Study Guide
- Checking understanding of algebraic notation Study Guide
- Different types of equations Study Guide
- Equality in an equation Study Guide
- Many equations, one solution Study Guide
- Preparing to solve two step linear equations Study Guide
- Problem solving with linear equations Study Guide
- Rearranging to solve linear equations Study Guide
- Securing understanding of equality Study Guide
- Solution to an equation Study Guide
- Solving complex linear equations Study Guide
- Solving complex linear equations involving brackets Study Guide
- Solving linear equations graphically using technology Study Guide
- Solving linear equations where brackets are used Study Guide
- Solving simple linear equations with a multiplicative step Study Guide
- Solving simple linear equations with an additive step Study Guide
- Solving two step linear equations Study Guide
Understanding multiplicative relationships: percentages and proportionality
- Checking understanding of percentages Study Guide
- Decrease by a percentage Study Guide
- Direct proportion in context Study Guide
- Expressing one number as a percentage of another Study Guide
- Finding a percentage with a multiplier Study Guide
- Finding the original amount after a decrease Study Guide
- Finding the original amount after an increase Study Guide
- Finding the percentage change Study Guide
- Graphing direct proportion Study Guide
- Increase by a percentage Study Guide
- Inverse proportion in context Study Guide
- Multiplicative relationships and direct proportion Study Guide
- Multiplicative relationships presented graphically Study Guide
- Problem solving with percentages and proportionality Study Guide
- Scaling diagrams for multiplicative relationships Study Guide
- Securing understanding of percentages Study Guide