KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

KS3 Objectives
Taken from the Mathematics Programmes of Study (PoS): Key Stage 3

Subject Content

Number Pupils should be taught to:

Understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size.

Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions; use the number line as a model
for ordering of the real numbers; use the symbols =, ≠, <, >, ≤, ≥.

Use the concepts and vocabulary of prime numbers, factors (or divisors), multiples, common
factors, common multiples, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, prime
factorisation, including using product notation and the unique factorisation property.

Use the four operations, including the formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals,
proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative.

Use conventional notation for the priority of operations, including brackets, powers roots and
reciprocals.

Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations.

Use integer powers and associated real roots (square, cube and higher), recognise powers
of 2, 3, 4, 5 and distinguish between exact representations of roots and their decimal
approximations.

Interpret and compare numbers in standard form A × 10n, 1 ≤ A < 10, where n is a positive or
negative integer or zero.
Work interchangeably with terminating decimals and their corresponding fractions (such as
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3.5 and or 0.375 and ).
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Define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, interpret percentages and percentage
changes as a fraction or a decimal, interpret these multiplicatively, express one quantity
as a percentage of another, compare two quantities using percentages, and work with
percentages greater than 100%.

Interpret fractions and percentages as operators.

Use standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures, including with decimal
quantities.

Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy (for example, to a

number of decimal places or significant figures).

Use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible resulting
errors expressed using inequality notation a < x ≤ b.

Use a calculator and other technologies to calculate results accurately and then interpret
them appropriately.

Appreciate the infinite nature of the sets of integers, real and rational numbers.

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Algebra Pupils should be taught to:

Use and interpret algebraic notation, including:
• ab in place of a × b;
• 3y in place of y + y + y and 3 × y;
• a2 in place of a × a, a3 in place of a × a × a; a2b in place of a × a × b;
a
• in place of a ÷ b;
b
• coefficients written as fractions rather than as decimals;
• brackets.

Substitute numerical values into formulae and expressions, including scientific formulae.

Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations, inequalities,
terms and factors.

Simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions to maintain equivalence by:

• collecting like terms;
• multiplying a single term over a bracket;
• taking out common factors;
• expanding products of two or more binomials.

Understand and use standard mathematical formulae; rearrange formulae to change the
subject.

Model situations or procedures by translating them into algebraic expressions or formulae

and by using graphs.

Use algebraic methods to solve linear equations in one variable (including all forms that
require rearrangement).

Work with coordinates in all four quadrants.

Recognise, sketch and produce graphs of linear and quadratic functions of one variable with
appropriate scaling, using equations in x and y and the Cartesian plane.

Interpret mathematical relationships both algebraically and graphically.

Reduce a given linear equation in two variables to the standard form y = mx + c; calculate and
interpret gradients and intercepts of graphs of such linear equations numerically, graphically
and algebraically.

Use linear and quadratic graphs to estimate the values of y for given values of x and vice
versa and to find approximate solutions of simultaneous linear equations.

Find approximate solutions to contextual problems from given graphs of a variety of

functions, including piece-wise linear, exponential and reciprocal graphs.

Generate terms of a sequence from either a term-to-term or a position-to-term rule.

Recognise arithmetic sequences and find the nth term.

Recognise geometric sequences and appreciate other sequences that arise.

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Ratio, Proportion and Rates of Change Pupils should be taught to:

Change freely between standard units (for example, time, length, area, volume/capacity,
mass).

Use scale factors, scale diagrams and maps.

Express one quantity as a fraction of another, where the fraction is less than 1 and greater
than 1.

Use ratio notation, including reduction to simplest form.

Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part : part or part : whole ratio; express the
division of a quantity into two parts as a ratio.

Understand that a multiplicative relationship between two quantities can be expressed as a

ratio or fraction.

Relate the language of ratios and the associated calculations to the arithmetic of fractions
and to linear functions.

Solve problems involving percentage change, including: percentage increase, decrease and
original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics.

Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, including graphical and algebraic
representations.

Use compound units such as speed, unit pricing and density to solve problems.

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Geometry Pupils should be taught to:

Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and area
of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, volume of cuboids (including cubes) and other prisms
(including cylinders).

Calculate and solve problems involving: perimeters of 2D shapes (including circles), areas of
circles and composite shapes.

Draw and measure line segments and angles in geometric figures, including interpreting
scale drawings.

Derive and use the standard ruler and compass constructions (perpendicular bisector of a
line segment, constructing a perpendicular to a given line from/at a given point, bisecting
a given angle); recognise and use the perpendicular distance from a point to a line as the
shortest distance to the line.

Describe, sketch and draw using conventional terms and notations: points, lines, parallel
lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, regular polygons, and other polygons that are
reflectively and rotationally symmetric.

Use the standard conventions for labelling the sides and angles of triangles ABC, and know
and use the criteria for congruence of triangles.

Derive and illustrate properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, circles and other plane figures (for
example, equal lengths and angles) using appropriate language and technologies.

Identify properties of, and describe the results of, translations, rotations and reflections
applied to given figures.

Identify and construct congruent triangles, and construct similar shapes by enlargement, with
and without coordinate grids.

Apply the properties of angles at a point, angles at a point on a straight line, vertically
opposite angles.

Understand and use the relationship between parallel lines and alternate and corresponding
angles.

Derive and use the sum of angles in a triangle and use it to deduce the angle sum in any
polygon, and to derive properties of regular polygons.

Apply angle facts, triangle congruence, similarity and properties of quadrilaterals to derive
results about angles and sides, including Pythagoras’ theorem, and use known results to
obtain simple proofs.

Use Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometric ratios in similar triangles to solve problems
involving right-angled triangles.

Use the properties of faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders,
pyramids, cones and spheres to solve problems in 3D.

Interpret mathematical relationships both algebraically and geometrically.

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Probability Pupils should be taught to:

Record, describe and analyse the frequency of outcomes of simple probability experiments
involving randomness, fairness, equally and unequally likely outcomes, using appropriate
language and the 0-1 probability scale.

Understand that the probabilities of all possible outcomes sum to 1.

Enumerate sets and unions/intersections of sets systematically, using tables, grids and Venn
diagrams.

Generate theoretical sample spaces for single and combined events with equally likely,
mutually exclusive outcomes and use these to calculate theoretical probabilities.

Statistics Pupils should be taught to:

Describe, interpret and compare observed distributions of a single variable through:
appropriate graphical representation involving discrete, continuous and grouped data;
and appropriate measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and spread (range,
consideration of outliers).

Construct and interpret appropriate tables, charts and diagrams, including frequency tables,
bar charts, pie charts and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line (or bar) charts for
ungrouped and grouped numerical data.

Describe simple mathematical relationships between two variables (bivariate data) in

observational and experimental contexts and illustrate using scatter graphs.

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Year 7 KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Number Number
Multiplication Tables Multiplication and division (to include decimals as well as powers of 10).
PoS objective:
• Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals,
proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative.

Place value to include integers, negative numbers and decimals. Inverse and order of operations.
PoS objectives: PoS objectives:
• Understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size; • Use conventional notation for the priority of operations, including brackets, powers,
• Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions: use the number line as a roots and reciprocals;
model for ordering of the real numbers. • Recognise and use relationships between operations, including inverse operations.

Addition and subtraction to include decimals. (Examples to include mass, Area of rectangles, triangles and trapezia.
length, time and money.)
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals, • Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and
proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative; area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezia.
• Use standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures, including with
decimal quantities.

Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000, 1 and 2 decimal places, and
estimation.
PoS objectives:
• Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy;
• Use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible
resulting errors expressed using inequality notation.
Factors, multiplies, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, and
prime numbers.
PoS objective:
• Use the concepts and vocabulary of prime numbers, factors (or divisors), multiples,
common factors, common multiples, highest common factor, lowest common multiple…

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Autumn 1 (Continued) Autumn 2 (Continued)

Number Number
Perimeter
PoS objectives:
• Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and
area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezia;
• Calculate and solve problems involving: perimeters of 2D shapes.

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Spring 1 Spring 2
Geometry Fractions
Draw and measure line segments as well as acute and obtuse angles. Equivalent fractions, including simplifying fractions.
PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Draw and measure line segments and angles in geometric figures. • Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions…

Find unknown angles at a point, on a straight line, and angles that are Compare and order fractions and decimals.
vertically opposite.
PoS objective: PoS objectives:
• Apply the properties of angles at a point, angles at a point on a straight line, vertically • Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions: use the number line as a
opposite angles. model for ordering of the real numbers;
• Work interchangeably with terminating decimals and their corresponding fractions.

Properties of triangles and quadrilaterals. Add and subtract fractions.

PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Apply angle facts, triangle congruence, similarity and properties of quadrilaterals to • Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals,
derive results about angles and sides; proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative.
• Derive and illustrate properties of triangles, quadrilaterals…using appropriate language
and technologies.

Area of parallelograms. Multiply and divide fractions.

PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and • Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals,
area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezia. proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative.

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Year 7 KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

Spring 1 (Continued) Spring 2 (Continued)

Geometry Fractions
Change mixed numbers to improper fractions and vice versa.
PoS objective:
• Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals,
proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative.

Add and subtract mixed number fractions.

PoS objective:
• Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, decimals,
proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and negative.

Express one fraction as a quantity of another. Find fractions of an amount,

including finding the whole from a given fraction of an amount.
PoS objectives:
• Interpret fractions and percentages as operators;
• Express one quantity as a fraction of another, where the fraction is less than 1 and
greater than 1.

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Summer 1 Summer 2
Algebra Percentages and Statistics
Algebraic vocabulary Read and interpret bar charts.
PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations, inequalities, • Construct and interpret appropriate tables, charts, and diagrams, including frequency
terms and factors. tables, bar charts, pie charts, and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line (or
bar) charts for ungrouped and grouped numerical data.

Substitution Read and interpret pictograms.

PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Substitute numerical values into formulae and expressions, including scientific formulae. • Construct and interpret appropriate tables, charts, and diagrams, including frequency
tables, bar charts, pie charts, and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line (or
bar) charts for ungrouped and grouped numerical data.

Simplifying algebraic expressions. Calculate the mean average of a data set.

PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions to maintain equivalence by: • Describe, interpret and compare observed distributions of a single variable through:
• Collecting like terms. appropriate graphical representation involving discrete, continuous and grouped data;
and appropriate measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and spread
• Use and interpret algebraic notation, including:
(range, consideration of outliers).
• ab in place of a × b;
• 3y in place of y + y + y and 3 × y;
• a2 in place of a × a, a3 in place of a × a × a; a2b in place of a × a × b;
a
• b
in place of a ÷ b;
• Coefficients written as fractions rather than as decimals.

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Summer 1 (Continued) Summer 2 (Continued)

Algebra Percentages and Statistics
Write expressions from given information. Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages (FDP).
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Model situations or procedures by translating them into algebraic expressions or • Work interchangeably with terminating decimals and their corresponding fractions.
formulae and by using graphs.
• Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations,
inequalities, terms and factors.

Describe a sequence by identifying a term-to-term rule. Generate the terms Percentage of a quantity.
of a sequence.
PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Generate terms of a sequence from either a term-to-term or a position-to-term rule. • Define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, … express one quantity as a
percentage of another, compare two quantities using percentages, and work with
percentages greater than 100%.

Find the whole, given part and the percentage.

PoS objective:
• Define percentage as ‘number of parts per hundred’, interpret percentages and
percentage changes as a fraction or a decimal, interpret these multiplicatively, express
one quantity as a percentage of another, compare two quantities using percentages,
and work with percentages greater than 100%.

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Year 8 KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Number Algebra
Indices including roots. Inequalities (drawing and representing on a number line).
PoS objective: PoS objectives:
• Use integer powers and associated real roots (square, cube and higher), recognise • Understand and use the concepts and vocabulary of expressions, equations, inequalities,
powers of 2, 3, 4, 5 and distinguish between exact representations of roots and their terms and factors;
decimal approximations. • Order positive and negative integers, decimals and fractions; use the number line as a
model for ordering of the real numbers; use the symbols =, ≠, <, >, ≤, ≥.

Prime factorisation Algebraic manipulation

PoS objective: PoS objectives:
• Use the concepts and vocabulary of prime numbers, factors (or divisors), multiples, • Use and interpret algebraic notation, including:
common factors, common multiples, highest common factor, lowest common multiple, • ab in place of a × b;
prime factorisation, including using product notation and the unique factorisation
• 3y in place of y + y + y and 3 × y;
property.
• a2 in place of a × a, a3 in place of a × a × a; a2b in place of a × a × b;
a
• b
in place of a ÷ b;
• Coefficients written as fractions rather than as decimals;
• Brackets;
• Understand and use the concepts of vocabulary of expressions, equations, inequalities,
terms and factors.

Rounding, estimating, significant figures and interval errors.
PoS objectives:
• Round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy;
• Use approximation through rounding to estimate answers and calculate possible
resulting errors expressed using inequality notation.
Multiplying single brackets and expanding products of two or more binomials.
PoS objectives:
• Simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions to maintain equivalence by:
• Multiplying a single term over a bracket;
• Expanding products of two or more binomials.

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Year 8 KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

Autumn 1 (Continued) Autumn 2 (Continued)

Number Algebra
Calculate with positive rational and decimal numbers. Linear equations in one variable.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Use the four operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers, • Use algebraic methods to solve linear equations in one variable (including all forms that
decimals, proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers, all both positive and require rearrangement).
negative;
• Appreciate the infinite nature of the sets of integers, real and rational numbers.

Using a calculator. Form expressions and solve equations from real-life situations.
PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Use a calculator and other technologies to calculate results accurately and then interpret • Model situations or procedures by translating them into algebraic expressions or
them appropriately. formulae and by using graphs.

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Spring 1 Spring 2
Geometry Proportion
Draw accurate triangles and quadrilaterals using a ruler, protractor and Percentage increase and decrease.
compasses. Label a triangle.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Identify and construct congruent triangles, and construct similar shapes…; • Solve problems involving percentage change, including: percentage increase, decrease
• Use the standard conventions for labelling the sides and angles of triangle ABC… and original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics.

Find unknown angles by applying angle facts, including parallel lines. Original value percentage problems and simple interest.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Apply the properties of angles at a point, angles at a point on a straight line, vertically • Solve problems involving percentage change, including: percentage increase, decrease
opposite angles; and original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics.
• Understand and use the relationship between parallel lines and alternate and
corresponding angles.

Convert between length units and area units, including scale drawings and Ratio
maps.
PoS objectives: PoS objectives:
• Draw and measure line segments and angles in geometric figures, including interpreting • Use ratio notation, including reduction to its simplest form;
scale drawings; • Divide a given quantity into two parts in a given part : part or part : whole ratio; express
• Change freely between related standard units (for example time, length, area, volume/ the division of a quantity into two parts as a ratio;
capacity, mass); • Understand that a multiplicative relationship between two quantities can be expressed
• Use scale factors, scale diagrams and maps. as a ratio or fraction;
• Relate the language of ratios and the associated calculations to the arithmetic of
fractions and to linear functions.

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Spring 1 (Continued) Spring 2 (Continued)

Geometry Proportion
Area and perimeter of composite shapes. Speed, distance and time.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and • Use compound units such as speed, unit pricing and density to solve problems.
area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, volume of cuboids (including cubes) and
other prisms (including cylinders);
• Calculate and solve problems involving: perimeters of 2D shapes (including circles),
areas of circles and composite shapes.

Area of circles.
PoS objectives:
• Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and
area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, volume of cuboids (including cubes) and
other prisms (including cylinders);
• Calculate and solve problems involving: perimeters of 2D shapes (including circles),
areas of circles and composite shapes.

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Summer 1 Summer 2
Geometry Statistics and Probability
Surface area and volume of cuboids, prisms, cylinders and composite solids. Collect and organise data.
Compound units: mass, density and volume.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and • Construct and interpret appropriate tables, charts, and diagrams, including frequency
area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, volume of cuboids (including cubes) and tables, bar charts, pie charts, and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line (or
other prisms (including cylinders); bar) charts for ungrouped and grouped numerical data.
• Calculate and solve problems involving: perimeters of 2D shapes (including circles),
areas of circles and composite shapes;
• Use compound units such as speed, unit pricing and density to solve problems.

Circumference of circles. Construct and interpret pie charts.

PoS objectives:
• Derive and apply formulae to calculate and solve problems involving: perimeter and
area of triangles, parallelograms, trapezia, volume of cuboids (including cubes) and
other prisms (including cylinders);
• Calculate and solve problems involving: perimeters of 2D shapes (including circles),
areas of circles and composite shapes.
PoS objective:
• Construct and interpret appropriate tables, charts, and diagrams, including frequency
tables, bar charts, pie charts, and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line (or
bar) charts for ungrouped and grouped numerical data.

3D shapes – properties and nets. An introduction to probability.

PoS objective:
• Use the properties of faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of cubes, cuboids, prisms,
cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres to solve problems in 3D.
PoS objectives:
• Record, describe and analyse the frequency of outcomes of simple probability
experiments involving randomness, fairness, equally and unequally likely outcomes,
using appropriate language and the 0-1 probability scale;
• Understand that the probabilities of all possible outcomes sum to 1.

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Year 9 KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Algebra Number and Algebra
Reading, writing and plotting coordinates in all four quadrants. Standard Form
PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Work with coordinates in all four quadrants. n
• Interpret and compare numbers in standard form A × 10 , 1 ≤ A < 10, where n is a
positive or negative integer or zero.

Linear graphs including: Changing the subject of a formula.

• Plotting and drawing straight-line graphs;
• y = mx + c form;
• Using graphs to find approximate solutions to simultaneous equations.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Reduce a given linear equation in two variables to the standard form y = mx + c; calculate • Understand and use standard mathematical formulae; rearrange formulae to change
and interpret gradients and intercepts of graphs of such linear equations numerically, the subject.
graphically and algebraically;
• Use linear and quadratic graphs to estimate values of y for given values of x and vice
versa and to find approximate solutions of simultaneous equations.

Quadratic Graphs (as a continued progression from linear graphs). Factorising

PoS objectives: PoS objectives:
• Recognise, sketch and produce graphs of linear and quadratic functions of one variable • Simplify and manipulate expressions to maintain equivalence by:
with appropriate scaling, using equations in x and y and the Cartesian plane; • Taking out common factors.
• Find approximate solutions to contextual problems from given graphs of a variety of
functions, including piece-wise linear, exponential and reciprocal graphs.

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Year 9 KS3 Mathematics Curriculum Map

Autumn 1 (Continued) Autumn 2 (Continued)

Algebra Number and Algebra
Sequences including:
• Finding the nth term
• Different types of sequences.
PoS objectives:
th
• Recognise arithmetic sequences and find the n term;
• Recognise geometric sequences and appreciate other sequences that arise.

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Spring 1 Spring 2
Geometry Proportion and Probability
Congruence and Similarity Solve word problems with proportion. Direct and inverse proportion.
PoS objectives: PoS objectives:
• Use the standard conventions for labelling the sides and angles of a triangle ABC, and • Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, including graphical and
know and use the criteria for congruence of triangles; algebraic representations;
• Identify and construct congruent triangles, and construct similar shapes by enlargement; • Use compound units such as speed, unit pricing and density to solve problems.
• Change freely between related standard units (for example time, length, area, volume/
capacity, mass);
• Use scale factors, scale diagrams and maps.

Pythagoras’ theorem and Trigonometry Two-way tables and Venn diagrams.

PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Apply angle facts, triangle congruence, similarity and properties of quadrilaterals to • Enumerate sets and unions/intersections of sets systematically, using tables, grids and
derive results about angles and sides, including Pythagoras’ theorem, and use known Venn diagrams.
results to obtain simple proofs;
• Use Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometric ratios in similar triangles to solve problems
in right-angled triangles.

Angles in polygons (interior and exterior angles). Sample Space Diagrams

PoS objective: PoS objective:
• Derive and use the sum of angles in a triangle and use it to deduce the angle sum in any • Generate theoretical sample spaces for single and combined events with equally likely,
polygon, and to derive properties of regular polygons. mutually exclusive outcomes and use these to calculate theoretical probabilities.

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Summer 1 Summer 2
Geometry Statistics
Construction and Loci Comparing two data sets including mean, median, mode from grouped data.
PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Derive and use the standard ruler and compass constructions (perpendicular bisector • Describe, interpret and compare observed distributions of a single variable through:
of a line segment, constructing a perpendicular to a given line from/at a given point, appropriate measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and spread (range,
bisecting a given angle); recognise and use the perpendicular distance from a point to a consideration of outliers).
line as the shortest distance to the line;
• Describe, sketch and draw using conventional terms and notations: points, lines, parallel
lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, regular polygons, and other polygons that are
reflectively and rotationally symmetric.

Transformations Scatter Graphs

PoS objectives: PoS objective:
• Identify properties of, and describe the results of, translations, rotations and reflections • Describe simple mathematical relationships between two variables (bivariate data) in
applied to given figures; observational and experimental contexts and illustrate using scatter graphs.
• Describe, sketch and draw using conventional terms and notations: points, lines, parallel
lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, regular polygons, and other polygons that are
reflectively and rotationally symmetric.

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