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In S1, students are taught in their tutor groups. They spend time consolidating the number work from late primary years, are introduced to the ideas of algebra and solving simple equations, they work with areas and perimeters of more complicated shapes, discover the rules connecting angles in shapes, and finish by learning how to analyse data.
The S1 year is an essential foundation for all 4 strands of the Mathematics Framework, and time is taken to ensure students embed prior learning more securely, and begin to build upon this in a broader range of topics than they are used to in primary.
S1 Key Skills
S1 Key Skills
In each year group there are some key skills that we want students to master completely by the end of the year. Fluency in these keys skills will help students in future years as these become building blocks for other skills they will develop:
In S1 the Key Skills are:
Unit 1 - Numbers and Number Systems
Unit 1 - Numbers and Number Systems
In this unit students will learn about:
Place value including decimals
Negative numbers, including ordering
Prime numbers, Square numbers, Square roots
Divisibility rules
Factors, multiples, prime factorisation, highest common factors and lowest common multiples
The four arithmetic operations with positive and negative whole numbers and decimals
Working with the order of operations
Using a calculator
Rounding to decimal places
Unit 2 - Algebra
Unit 2 - Algebra
In this unit students will learn about:
The principles of algebra as a generalisation for number work
Substituting numbers into expressions
Simplifying expressions by collecting like terms
Showing inequalities on the number line
Working with simple sequences and patterns
Solving linear equations
Working with coordinates
Unit 3 - Fractions
Unit 3 - Fractions
In this unit students will learn about:
finding fractions of amounts
working with equivalent fractions and simplifying
converting between improper fractions and mixed numbers
converting between fractions, decimals and percentages
recurring decimals
performing the four arithmetic operations with fractions
finding percentages of amounts
Unit 4 - Geometry
Unit 4 - Geometry
In this unit students will learn about:
2D shapes and their properties
3D shapes and their properties
using plans, elevations and nets of 3D shapes
calculating the perimeter and area of 2D shapes
pi, and how to use this to find the area and circumference of circles
converting between different standard units of measurement
volumes and surface area of cuboids
using a protractor to measure and draw angles
finding angles in shapes using angle rules
using algebra to solve a variety of geometry problems
Unit 5 - Statistics
Unit 5 - Statistics
In this unit student will learn about:
the different types of data
the difference between a population and a sample
organising data into frequency tables
representing data in dot plots, pictograms, bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts
interpreting data represented in these forms
analysing data by calculating the mean, median, mode and range of data in lists and non-grouped frequency tables
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