Year 8

Units of Study

Welcome to Year 8 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:

1. Unit 1 Numbers: Divisors; The Sieve of Eratosthenes; The Jailer Problem; Happy Numbers; Shake Hands; Divisibility Test; Loopy Snooker

2. Unit 2 Algebra: Grid Staircase; Number Squares; Odds & Evens; Triangle Corners; Diagonal Differences

3. Unit 3 Chance: The River Game; Spinners; Odds & Evens; Sarah’s Game; Designing a Game; Coloured Cubes

4. Unit 4 Shapes: Adding It All Up; P-Numbers; Pizza Slices; Coordinate Codes; What’s My Line?; Mango Shop; Graphing Stories; Transformations

5. Unit 5 Number Skills: Fermi Questions; The World As a Village

6. Unit 6 Statistics: Matchmaking; Are You Square?; Just a Minute; Mayfield High School

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.