Year 7
Units of Study
Welcome to Year 7 Mathematics at Island School! This webpage is the starting point for your year ahead, and everything you need can be found here. You should add this page as a bookmark or favourite so that you can find it easily.
During the year you will work on 6 different units, each one lasting five to seven weeks. For each of the units, you will have an assessed task. The units and the common tasks are listed below, if you click on the hyperlinks below they will take you to the page for that unit:
Unit 1 Numbers: Number Bracelets; Diffy; 1089; Max Product; Multiplication Methods; Four 4s; Partitions
Unit 2 Algebra: I Think of a Number; Number Strips; Pyramids; Matchstick Patterns: Tiles; Multilink Staircases; Climbing Stairs; Earrings; Frogs; Using Spreadsheets
Unit 3 Measuring: Uncle Russ's Measuring Activity; Draw a Sports Field; Borrett Rulers; Mixing Paint
Unit 4 Chance: What are the Chances of That?; Recur or Terminate; Beads in a Bag; Paper Fractions; Multilink Cubes, Capture-Recapture; Spreadsheet Simulations
Unit 5 Shapes: Circle Patterns; P = 12; Triangles in Circles; Folding Paper; A = P; Dotty Shapes; The 9-pin Geoboard; Symmetry Squares; Viral Spirals; Rangolis; Tangrams; Pentominoes
Unit 6 Statistics: MMM; Two Poems; Penalty Shoot-out; Dishonest Teacher; HK Observatory; Student Survey
For a detailed description of the mathematics that you will learn in each unit, click here. Below is a brief course outline:
Assessments and Meetings Schedule
You will have 6 assessments in the year, one per unit. On top of that, you will have Parent Consultation meetings as well as Tutoring for Learning meetings. See below for a schedule of when the assessments and meetings will take place. Please note that the assessment dates are subject to slight modifications.