Year 8 (Homeschooling)

     

This page is not for RGS students. This is for students who are being schooled at home and want to follow the CIMT programme.


Past examination material

     

MS means the mark scheme (i.e. the answers).

     

The links below come from the CIMT website.

Extra exercises: additional exercises on the topic, perfect for revision purposes. Answers are included at the end of the document.

     

Activities: a collection of investigational type tasks that may be used in class or set as a homework.

     

E-lessons: include​ explanations of topics taught, as well as self-marking exercises. Completing these pages is another great way to revise.​

     

Autumn term (Sep-Dec)

     

Unit 4: Rounding and Estimating

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
4 Rules (Whole Numbers)
     
4 Rules (Decimals)
     
Order of Operations
     
Worded Arithmetic Problems
     
Rounding
     
Estimating
     
e-lessons
     
4.1 4 operations - whole numbers 4.2 4 operations - decimals
     
4.3 Order of operations 4.4 Problems in context
     
4.5 Rounding 4.6 Estimating

Unit 3: Pythagoras' Theorem

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Pythagoras Investigation (Tilted squares)
     
Calculate the Length of the Hypotenuse
     
Calculating the Lengths of Other Sides
     
Worded Pythagoras Problems
     
e-lessons
     
3.1 Pythagoras' Theorem 3.2 Calculating the hypotenuse
     
3.4 Pythagoras - problems in context

Unit 6: Nets and Surface Area

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Common 2-D and 3-D Shapes
     
2-D Representations of 3-D Shapes
     
Plans and Elevations
     
Nets and Surface Area of Cubes and Cuboids
     
Nets of Prisms and Pyramids
     
e-lessons
     
6.1 Constructions and angles 6.2 2-D and 3-D shapes

Unit 7: Ratio and proportion

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Equivalent Ratios
     
Direct Proportion
     
Division in a Given Ratio
     
Linear Conversion
     
Inverse proportion
     
e-lessons
     
7.1 Equivalent ratios 7.2 Direct proportion
     
7.3 Proportional division

Unit 9: Fractions and Percentages

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Revision of Operations with Fractions
     
Fractions in Context
     
Conversion of Fractions and Percentages
     
Finding Percentages of Quantities
     
Increasing and Decreasing by a Percentage
     
Finding Percentage Increase and Decrease
     
Reverse Percentages
     
Mixed Percentages
     
    Y8 Mixed Percentages Y8 Mixed Percentages ANSWERS
     
e-lessons
     
20.2 Fractions - add/subtract 20.3 Fractions - multiplication
     
20.4 Fractions - division

Unit 8: Algebra - Brackets

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Expansion of Single Brackets
     
Linear Equations with Brackets
     
Factorising
     
Expansion of Two Brackets
     
e-lessons
     
8.1 Expanding single Brackets 8.2 Linear equations with brackets
     
8.3 Factorising

Spring term (Jan-Apr)

     

Unit 12: Formulae

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Substitution 1
     
Substitution 2
     
Linear Equations 1
     
Linear Equations 2
     
Changing the Subject of a Formula
     
     
e-lessons
     
12.1 Substituting 1 12.2 Substituting 2
     
12.3 Linear equations 1 12.4 Linear equations 2

Unit 10: Probability of 2 Events

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Probability of One Event
     
Listing Outcomes with Two Events
     
Probabilities Using Listings
     
Independent Events and Tree Diagrams
     
     
Dependent Probability
     
e-lessons
     
10.1 Probability of one event
     
10.2 Finding outcomes with 2 experiments
     
10.3 Finding probability by listing outcomes 10.4 Independent events

Spring term (continued)

     

Unit 5: Data Analysis

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Displaying Discrete Data
     
Mean,_Median,_Mode_and_Range
     
e-lessons
     
5.1 Frequency tables 5.2 Mean, median, mode and range

Unit 11: Angles, Bearings and Maps

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Parallel and Intersecting Lines
     
Bearings
     
Scale Drawings
     
e-lessons
     
11.1 Angle measures 11.2 Parallel and intersecting lines
     
11.3 Bearings

Unit 15: Polygons

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Angle Facts (revision)
     
Angle Properties of Polygons
     
Symmetry (Reflection and Rotational)
     
Quadrilaterals
     
e-lessons
     
15.1 Angles 15.2 Angle properties of polygons
     
15.3 Symmetry 15.4 Quadrilaterals

Unit 14: Straight Line Graphs

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Plotting Points on Straight Lines
     
Plotting Graphs Given their Equations
     
Equation of a Straight Line
     
Equation of a Line Given Two Points
     
e-lessons
     
14.1 Coordinates 14.2 Plotting straight lines
     
14.3 Plotting graphs from the equation

Unit 16: Circles and Cylinders

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Introduction to Circles
     
Formulae for Circumference and Area
     
Circles (Worded Problems)
     
Volume and Surface Area of a Cylinder
     
e-lessons
     
16.1 Introduction to circles
     
16.4 Formulae for circumference and area

Unit 19: Similarity

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Enlargement
     
Similar Shapes
     
Similar Shapes (one diagram problems)
     
Length, Area and Volume Scale Factors
     
Converting Units of Area and Volume
     
Maps and Scale Models
     
e-lessons
     
19.1 Enlargement 19.2 Similar shapes
     
19.3 Line, area and volume scale factors

Unit 18: Speed, Distance and Time

     
Textbook Extra exercises Activities
     
Lessons
     
Speed
     
Calculating Speed, Distance and Time
     
Problems with Mixed Units
     
Distance-Time Graphs
     
Other compound measures
     
e-lessons
     
18.1 Speed 18.2 Calculating speed, distance and time
     
18.3 Problems with mixed units

Number (last topic)

     
Lessons
     
Convert Recurring Decimals to Fractions
     
Products of Prime Factors
     
HCF & LCM
     
Revision
     
Revision F2 (Number) Revision F2 (Number) MS

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