Geometry

• 5 weeks
  Print and Pattern: Printmaking and Design

  Year 7 sequence · Translation, reflection and rotation to create repeat patterns and tessellations

• 5 weeks
  Into the Outdoors: Risk, Navigation and Leadership

  Year 8 sequence · Map scales: measuring route distances on a topographic map and working out travel times

• 5 weeks
  Find Your Way: Maps, Angles and Coordinates

  Year 7 sequence · Describing positions and pathways using coordinates, angle measures and the eight main and halfway compass points (e.g. NE is 45° east of north); transformations on a grid

• 5 weeks
  Shape Shifters: Transformations and Tessellation

  Year 7 sequence · Classifying triangles by angles and sides; the interior angle sum of a triangle; transforming 2D shapes on the coordinate plane by a single translation, reflection or rotation about a point by a multiple of 90°; drawing nets for prisms and pyramids

• 5 weeks
  Patterns, Proof and Prediction

  Year 8 sequence · Proving that the interior angle sum of a triangle is 180° and generalising the rule 180(n − 2)° for any polygon, including exterior angles summing to 360°

• 5 weeks
  Measure Up: Designing Spaces

  Year 8 sequence · Map scale as the ratio between a distance on a plan and the real distance; compass points for orientation; drawing nets for prisms and pyramids and identifying the 2D faces of 3D shapes

• 5 weeks
  Find Your Way: Maps, Angles and Coordinates

  Year 8 sequence · Map scales as a ratio between map and real distance; using scales, compass points, distance and turn in coordinate and grid reference systems

• 5 weeks
  Shape Shifters: Transformations and Tessellation

  Year 8 sequence · Proving the angle sum of a triangle is 180° and generalising 180(n − 2)° for any polygon; exterior angles summing to 360°; transforming shapes, including composite shapes, by combinations of translations, reflections, rotations and scaling by any factor

• 5 weeks
  Rocks to Stars: Earth and Space

  Year 8 sequence · Using a scale to shrink real distances in the Solar System onto the school field

• 5 weeks
  Te Awa Tupua: Rivers, Floods and People

  Year 8 sequence · Map scales and grid references on 1:50,000 topographic maps

• 5 weeks
  Build It Strong: Structures and Mechanisms

  Year 7 sequence · Classifying triangles and using them for rigid frames; nets of 3D shapes for columns

• Number
• Algebra
• Measurement
• Statistics
• Probability

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