YEAR 8 PROGRAMME 2019
Resource: Dropbox “Curriculum support”
TERM 1 ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS
Students use efficient mental
Weeks 1-3 and written strategies to carry
out the four operations with
integers
Week 4-6
Week 7-10 Students represent numbers
using variables. They connect
the laws and properties for
numbers to algebra. They
interpret simple linear
representations and model
AC DESCRIPTOR – TOPIC SKILLS ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT
INTEGERS
Carry out the four operations with integers (only +
and – done in year 7), using efficient mental and
written strategies and appropriate digital
technologies (ACMNA183)
Order of operations with integers
Week 4
FRACTIONS Test
All operations with fractions Integers and Order
Mental strategies of operations
(From Year 7 ACMNA153/154)
Solve problems involving duration, including using
12- and 24-hour time within a single time
zone (ACMMG199)
ALGEBRA Jo Boaler 4 week program Week 7
Test
Introduce the concept of variables as a way of Fractions/Time
representing numbers using letters (ACMNA175 –
authentic information (Yr 7)
Evaluate algebraic expressions
after numerical substitution.
They graph linear relationships
on the Cartesian plane.
They solve linear equations
Year7 ) Week 8/9
http://www.amsi.org.au/ESA_mi Practical
ddle_years Application
/ Eg Compare taxi
Create algebraic expressions and evaluate them by Year8/Year8_md/Year8_1a.html# fairs
substituting a given value for each variable intro
(ACMNA176 – Year 7)
Look at ‘functional relationships”
eg taxi fare, currency conversion
Generalising a rule for a straight
GRAPHING LINEAR FUNCTIONS line. Look at gradient and vertical
intercept??
Plot linear relationships on the Cartesian plane with
and without the use of digital technologies
(ACMNA193) Week 10
Test
LINEAR EQUATIONS Algebra
Solve simple linear equations (ACMNA179) – from
Year 7 AC
Solve linear equations using algebraic techniques.
Verify solutions by substitution (ACMNA194) (NOTE:
VARIABLE ON EITHER SIDE OF EQUALS SIGN)
 TERM 2 ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS
Weeks 1-2 They identify conditions for the
congruence of triangles and
deduce the properties of
quadrilaterals
Week 3-6 They perform calculations to
determine perimeter and area of
parallelograms, rhombuses and
kites. They name the features of
circles and calculate the areas and
circumferences of circles
AC DESCRIPTOR – TOPIC SKILLS ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT
GEOMETRY – CONGRUENT TRIANGLES
Review classification and
Define congruence of plane shapes using hierarchy of triangles by angle
transformations (ACMMG200) and side properties
Develop the conditions for congruence of triangles Establishing the properties of
(ACMMG201) squares, rectangles,
parallelograms, rhombuses,
Establish properties of quadrilaterals using congruent trapeziums and kites and
triangles and angle properties, and solve related classifying quadrilaterals by
their properties.
numerical problems using reasoning (ACMMG202)
Hierachy of quadrilateralls
REVIEW Week 3
Perimeter and area of squares, rectangles and Mini test
triangles Congruency
MEASUREMENT PERIMETER AND AREA
Choose appropriate units of measurement for area
and volume and convert from one unit to another
(ACMMG195)
Find perimeter and areas of parallelograms,

They make connections between
expanding and factorising
algebraic expressions.
Week 7-8 Students solve problems relating
to the volume of prisms
Weeks 9 – 10 BUFFER
rhombuses and kites (ACMMG196)
Investigate the features of circles such as
circumference, area, radius and diameter. Use
formulas to solve problems involving circumference
and area (ACMMG197)
ALGEBRA – EXPANSION AND FACTORIZATION
Extend and apply the distributive law to the expansion
of algebraic expressions (ACMNA190)
(applying the distributive law to the expansion of
algebraic expressions using strategies such as the
area model)
Factorize algebraic expressions by identifying
numerical factors (ACMNA191)
Factorization of algebraic expressions using HCF
CONVERSIONS AND VOLUME Week 7
Draw different views of prisms and solids formed from Test
combinations of prisms (ACMMG161) – Year 7 Perimeter/Area/Algebr
Develop formulas for volumes of rectangular and a
triangular prisms and prisms in general. Use formulas
to solve problems involving volume (ACMMG198)
Week 9
Practical Application
Volume
 TERM 3 ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS
Week 1 - 6 Students solve everyday
problems involving rates and
ratios
Students solve everyday
problems involving percentages.
Students solve problems
involving profit and loss
Weeks 7-9 They describe index laws and
apply them to whole numbers
Week 10 Buffer
AC DESCRIPTOR – TOPIC SKILLS ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT
RATES AND RATIOS (with recap of fractions)
Solve a range of problems involving rates and ratios, with
and without digital technologies (ACMNA188)
PERCENTAGES Week 6
Test
Solve problems involving profit and loss, with and without Rates/Ratios/%’s
digital technologies (ACMNA189)
Solve problems involving the use of percentages, including
percentage increases and decreases, with and without
digital technologies (ACMNA187)
INDICES Top year 8’s could look at
Use index notation with numbers to establish the index process of converting a Week 8
laws with positive integral indices and the zero index recurring decimal to a Investigation
(ACMNA182) fraction Terminating/recurring
decimals
Investigate the concept of irrational numbers, including pi
(ACMNA186)
Investigate terminating and recurring decimals
(ACMNA184)
Week 10
Test
Indices
 TERM 4 ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS
Week 1-3 Students model authentic
situations with two-way tables and
Venn diagrams. They choose
appropriate language to describe
events and experiments. They
explain issues related to the
collection of data and the effect of
outliers on means and medians in
that data.
Weeks 4-6 Students determine the
probabilities of complementary
events and calculate the sum of
probabilities.
Weeks 7 - 8
They name the types of angles
formed by a transversal crossing
AC DESCRIPTOR – TOPIC SKILLS ASSESSMENT
DATA
Investigate techniques for collecting data, including
census, sampling and observation (ACMSP284)
Explore the practicalities and implications of obtaining
data through sampling using a variety of investigative
processes (ACMSP206)
Explore the variation of means and proportions of
random samples drawn from the same population
(ACMSP293)
Investigate the effect of individual data values,
including outliers, on the mean and median
(ACMSP207)
PROBABILITY Week 4
Identify complementary events and use the sum of Test
probabilities to solve problems (ACMSP204) Data
Describe events using language of ‘at least’ ,‘or’ ‘and’
Represent events in two way tables and Venn diagrams
and solve related problems (ACMSP292)
Week 7
ANGLES IN PARALLEL LINES
Test
Probability
 parallel lines.
They solve simple numerical Identify corresponding, alternate and co-interior angles
problems involving angles formed when two straight lines are crossed by a transversal
by a transversal crossing two lines. (ACMMG163) – Year 7

Investigate conditions for two lines to be parallel and

solve simple numerical problems using reasoning
(ACMMG164) – Year 7
Week 9 – 10
ALGEBRA/PROBLEM SOLVING