maths homework topics

  • Year 7 : SPRING TERM

Time
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Subject
How you can help
your child
Homework
Websites and
Resources

Approx 2 weeks

HANDLING DATA 2
Processing and Representing Data

      

- Solve a problem by representing data in a bar chart and line graph

- Ask your child to collect some data eg no of knives, forks and spoons in the kitchen drawer. They should draw a bar chart to represent the data. Ask them questions about the data, which item did you have most of etc…

www.mymaths.co.uk Select DATA, then
Charts and Graphs,
Bar Charts, do the
online homework
Level 3

www.bbc.co.uk/
skillswise/numbers/

handlingdata/charts
and graphs

- Construct graphs & diagrams to represent data

  

www.mymaths.co.uk Select DATA, then
Charts and Graphs,
Line Graphs, do the
online homework
Level 4
- Construct pie charts for categorical data

- Ask “When drawing a pie chart, what information do you need to calculate the size of the angle for each category?”

www.mymaths.co.uk Select DATA, then
Charts and Graphs, Drawing Pie Charts,
do the online homework
Level 6
Approx 3 weeks

NUMBER AND MEASURES 3
Written Calculations

      
- Know multiplication facts up to 10 x 10

- Ask your child to respond rapidly to oral questions like:
“Nine sevens, how many eights in 48, six times seven etc…”
“If you know that 4x7=28, what else do you know?”  ie 28÷7=4, 28÷4=7

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Number Operations, Multiplying, do the
online homework
Level 3

 

www.bbc.co.uk/
skillswise/numbers/
wholenumbers/
timestables

www.mymaths.
co.uk/
games, grid games, times it out
- Multiply & divide 3 digit by 2 digit whole numbers - Ask your child to give a written answer to questions such as 147 x 32. Ask questions like “What 2 numbers multiplied together give 4410? Or 294? www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Number Operations, Multiply Triple Digits,
do the online homework
Level 5

www.bbc.co.uk/
skillswise/numbers/
wholenumbers/
multiplication

www.counton.
org/games/
map-numbers
- Multiply & divide integers and decimals

- Ask your child “ If 137x29=3973 what is 13.7x29 or 137x2.9 or 13.7x2.9?”

Ask your child to make up questions with answer 112, 1.12 etc…

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Decimals, Multiply Two Decimals, do the
online homework
Level 5

www.coolmath
4kids.com
Approx 2 weeks

ALGEBRA 3
Integers, Powers and Roots 

      
- Identify factors of 2 digit numbers and recognise multiples up to 10 x 10

- Ask your child to list the factors of a number, say 24. Ask “How do you know when you have found all the factors?”

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Powers and Integers, Odds Evens Multiples,
do the online homework
Level 2

www.bbc.co.uk/
skillswise/numbers/
wholenumbers/

multiples and factors
- Recognise and use multiples, factors and primes

- Ask your child
 “ Which numbers less than 100 have exactly 3 factors?”
 “Can a prime number be a multiple of 4?”

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Powers and Integers, Multiples and also Factors and Primes,
do the online homework
Level 4

- Find the prime factor decomposition of a number - Ask “ Write 18 as a product of prime factors”  18=2x3x3=2x3²

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER,
Then Powers and Integers, HCF, do the online homework
(Qn 1 only)
Level 5
Approx 2 weeks

SHAPE, SPACE & MEASURES 3
Construction

      

- Use a protractor to measure & draw angles

- Draw some shapes and ask your child to measure the sides and the angles.

 

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select SHAPE, then Angles, Measuring Angles, do the online homework
Level 5

www.mymaths.
co.uk
games, angler game
- Use a ruler & protractor to construct a triangle - Ask your child to construct a triangle ABC with AB=7cm, angle A=36˚ and angle B=58˚.

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select SHAPE, then Construction, Constructing Triangles, do the online homework
Level 5
- Use a ruler & compasses to construct: .midpoint & perpendicular bisector of a line segment
.the bisector of an angle		 - Ask your child “For which constructions is it important to keep the same compass arc? Why?”

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select SHAPE, then Construction, Constructing Shapes, do the online homework
Level 6
Approx 2 weeks
 NUMBER 4
Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion		      
- Find simple fractions and percentages of whole-number quantities - Ask your child questions like: “What is 1/8of 32 or  10% of 130?”
Ask them to give some examples of numbers that are easy to find one fifth of. What about two fifths?		 www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Percentages, Percentages of Amounts 1, do the online homework
Level 4

www.bbc.co.uk/
skillswise/numbers/
fractiondecimal
percentage/
findingfraction
parts

www.counton.org
/games/
map-fractions

www.mymaths.co.uk
games, jackpot, percentages

www.bbc.co.uk/
skillswise/numbers/
wholenumbers/
ratio and proportion

www.mymaths.co.uk
games, jackpot, ratios

www.mymaths.co.uk
games, beat the clocks, number, percentages

- Use ratio notation and reduce a ratio to its simplest form

 - Ask your child to write the ratio 12:9 in its simplest form. (4:3)
Write 2m:50cm in its simplest form (200cm:50cm=4:1)		 www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Ratio, Ratio Introduction, do the online homework
Level 4

- Divide a quantity into 2 or more parts in a given ratio

- Ask questions like: “ A girl spent her savings of £40 on books and clothes in the ratio 1:3. How much did she spend on clothes?”

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select NUMBER, then Ratio, Ratio Dividing 1 and/or Ratio Dividing 2, do the online homework
Level 5/6
 

ALGEBRA 4
Equations, formulae and identities

      

- Understand and use the relationships between the 4 operations, and the principles of the arithmetic laws. Use brackets

- Ask your child “Is  (7x3) + 4 the same as  7 x (3 + 4)? Explain”

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select ALGEBRA, then Formulae, Order of Operations, do the online homework
Level 5

www.mymaths.co.uk
games, sky solver, equations

- Use letter symbols to represent unknown numbers or variables

- Reinforce the idea of an unknown. Ask questions such as:
5 + SQUARE = 17   What does the square represent?
SQUARE + TRIANGLE =  7  What numbers could each of the shapes represent?

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select ALGEBRA, then Use of Symbols, Simplifying 1, do the online homework
Level 5

www.mymaths.co.ukgames, pairs games, algebra pairs 1
- Construct and solve linear equations

- Ask your child questions like
“ How do you decide where to start when solving an equation?”
“I think of a number, subtract 7 and the answer is 16. What is my number?”

www.mymaths.co.uk
Select ALGEBRA, then Equations, Simple Equations and/or
Solving Equations, do
the online homework
Level 4/6

  

  • Year 7 : WINTER TERM

Time
Scale
Subject
How you can help
your child
Homework
Websites and
Resources

Approx 2 weeks

ALGEBRA 1
Sequences & Functions

 

 

 

- Recognise and extend number sequences

- Say to your child I know a secret sequence. It has these numbers in it: 13, 15, 17, 19. Ask what numbers come next? What numbers come before? Give me a number that is greater than 50 which is in my secret sequence. Is 64 in the sequence? How do you know? Use similar questions for different sequences.

www.mymaths.co.uk then select ALGEBRA, Sequences,
Sequences and the online homework.

Level 4

 
- Generate terms of a sequence

- Ask your child to find missing numbers in sequences like
10, 25, ..., ..., 70, ... .
1, 4, ..., ..., 25, 36, ... .

www.mymaths.co.uk then select ALGEBRA, Sequences,
Sequences and the online homework.

Level 4

  
- Generate terms of a linear sequence using term-to-term rules - The position-to-term rule is 2n + 4. Tell me the first 3 terms.

www.mymaths.co.uk then select ALGEBRA, Sequences,
Nth Term and the online homework.

Level 6

  
Approx 2 weeks
 NUMBER 1
Place Value, Integers & Calculations		      

- Understand and use decimal notation and place value.

 - Practice reading decimals correctly e.g. 5.239 in words is 'five point two three nine'.

www.mymaths.co.uk then select NUMBER, then Decimals, Decimal Place Value, do the online homework.

Level 3

 

- Know multiplication facts to 10 x 10, and quickly derive associated division facts.

- Ask your child questions like:

* nine sevens?
* how many eights in 48?
* multiply nine by six?
* if you know that 4 x 7 = 28, what else do you know (28 ÷ 7 = 4 
28 ÷ 4 = 7)

www.mymaths.co.uk then select NUMBER, then Number Operations, Multiply Single Digits, do the online homework.

Level 4

  

- Add and subtract positive and negative numbers in context.

- Ask questions such as:

* 'The temperature is at freezing point. It falls by 10 degrees, then rises by 7 degrees. What is the temperature now?
* The answer is -8. Give me three possible questions.

www.mymaths.co.uk then select NUMBER, then Negatives, Negative Numbers 1.

Level 3

  

- Add, subtract, multiply and divide integers.  

- Ask questions like:
5 - -3
-3 + ? = 7
3 x -4
and ask your child to check the answers on a calculation

www.mymaths.co.uk then select NUMBER, then Negatives, Negative Numbers 2.

Level 5

  
Approx 1 week

SHAPE, SPACE & MEASURES 1 Area, Perimeter & Volume

     

- Understand  an area measured in square centimetres (cm2).

- Ask your child 'Would you expect  the area of a paperback book to be 100 cm2, 600 cm2 or 6000 cm2? Explain why.'

- Draw shapes on centimetre squared paper and ask your child to 'count squares' to find the area in cm2.

www.mymaths.co.uk then select SHAPE, Area and Perimeter, Area of Rectangles, do the online homework.

Level 4

  

- Calculate the perimeter and area of shapes  made from rectangles.

- Form a compound shape by putting 2 rectangles together. Ask your child to explain to you how to find the perimeter and area.

www.mymaths.co.uk then select SHAPE, Area and Perimeter, Area of Triangles, do the online homework.

Level 6

  

- Know and use the formula for the volume of a cuboid.

- Look for examples of cuboids at home (e.g. cereal boxes) . Ask your child to find the volume of these cuboids.  

www.mymaths.co.uk then select SHAPE, Volume, Volume of Cuboids..

Level 6

  
Approx 2 weeks

NUMBER 2Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

      

- Recognise the equivalence of simple fractions.

- Ask your child to tell you come fractions that are equivalent to 1/2. How do they know? Repeat for fractions like 1/4 , 1/3 , 3/4 , 2/3 .

www.mymaths.co.uk select NUMBER, then Fractions, Equivalent Fractions, do the online homework.

Level 5

http://www.bbc.
co.uk/ skillswise/
numbers/fraction
decimal
percentage/fractions/
introduction/

- Recognise the equivalence of percentages, fractions & decimals.

- Ask your child to tell you what sets of equivalent percentages, fractions & decimals they know.
e.g. 50% = 1/2 = 0.5
25% = 1/4 = 0.25

www.mymaths.co.uk select NUMBER, then Frac Dec Perc, then Frac Dec Perc 2, do the online homework.

Level 6

 http://www.bbc.
co.uk/ skillswise/
numbers/fraction
decimalpercentage/
comparing/
comparingall3/

- Find the outcome of a given percentage increase or decrease.  

 - Look for examples of percentage increase/decrease e.g. a coat reduced by 10% in a sale.

www.mymaths.co.uk select NUMBER, then Percentages, Percentage Change 1, do the online homework.

Level 7

 http://www.bbc.
co.uk/skillswise/
numbers/fraction
decimalpercentage/
percentages/
percentincrease/
Approx 2 weeks

HANDLING DATA 1
Probability

     

- Use the language associated with probability.

-  Ask your child to say whether an every day event is likely or unlikely to happen e.g. match one of the words 'likely', 'unlikely', 'certain' or 'impossible' to statements such as:
* it will get dark tonight
* it will snow next Christmas.

www.mymaths.co.uk select DATA, then Probability, Probability Intro, do the online homework.

Level 5

  

- Find and justify probabilities based on equally likely outcomes in simple contexts.

- Ask your child to explain one a fair die what is the probability of rolling:
* a 5?
* an odd number?
* a prime number?

www.mymaths.co.uk select DATA, then Probability, Simple Probability, do the online homework.

Level 5

  

-  Find an record all possible mutually exclusive outcomes for 2 successive events in a systematic way.

-  Ask your child to show you how to record the outcomes when 2 dice are rolled.

www.mymaths.co.uk select DATA, then Probability, Listing Outcomes, do the online homework.

Level 6