Year 8 skills

Numbers

Take the Numbers test

• Multiplication laws
• Highest common factor and lowest common multiple
• Prime numbers
• Prime numbers within a range of numbers
• Prime factorisation
• Identify equivalent fractions
• Compare a decimal number and a fraction
• Add and subtract decimal numbers
• Multiply decimal numbers
• Recurring decimals
• Simplify fractions
• Order of operations
• Evaluate expressions involving exponents
• Simplification of square and cubic roots
• Approximation of the square root
• Approximation of the cube root
• Find the total based on a ratio
• Split a total based on a ratio
• Finding values based on ratios
• Level 1: Finding values based on multiple ratios
• Solving proportionality relationships
• Evaluate percentages
• Percentage change
• Identify rational and irrational numbers
• Largest or smallest number from a set of digits
• Challenge Level 1: I think of a number
• Challenge Level 2: I think of a number
• Challenge Level 1: Find integer solutions to linear equations
• Challenge Level 2: Find integer solutions to linear equations
• Challenge Level 1: Find the right arithmetic operations
• Challenge Level 2: Find the right arithmetic operations
• Challenge Level 3: Find the right arithmetic operations
• Challenge Prime factor decomposition
• Challenge Special numbers
• Challenge Sudoku

Algebra

Take the Algebra test

• Level 1: Simplification and expansion of algebraic expressions
• Level 2: Simplification and expansion of algebraic expressions
• Level 3: Simplification and expansion of algebraic expressions
• Level 1: Simplification of rational algebraic expressions
• Level 2: Simplification of rational algebraic expressions
• Simplification of algebraic expressions involving integer indices
• Numeric substitution in algebraic expressions
• Symbolic substitution in algebraic expressions
• Solve linear equations
• Solve inequalities in a single variable

Geometry

• Level 1: Find the unknown angle
• Level 2: Find the unknown angle
• Level 1: Solve an equation to find the unknown angle in a triangle
• Level 2: Solve an equation to find the unknown angle in a triangle
• Pythagoras theorem
• Congruent triangles
• Length and area conversions
• Calculate the properties of basic planar shapes
• Level 1: Calculate the properties of compound planar shapes
• Level 2: Calculate the properties of compound planar shapes
• Calculate the properties of basic three-dimensional shapes
• Properties of polygons
• Calculate the volume of three-dimensional shapes
• Level 1: Object reflection and rotation
• Level 2: Object reflection and rotation
• Congruent triangles

Coordinate geometry

• Identify coordinates of points on a plane
• Identify quadrants
• Collinearity
• Midpoint of a line
• Level 1: The distance between two points
• Level 2: The distance between two points
• Understanding linear relationships
• Level 1: Transformation of points on a grid
• Level 2: Transformation of points on a grid

Set theory

• Venn diagrams

Probability

• Probability of simple events
• Probability of this or that
• Level 1: Probabilities in two-step experiments
• Level 2: Probabilities in two-step experiments

Statistics

• Understanding bar charts
• Understanding pie charts
• Histograms
• Mean, median, maximum, minimum and range of data

Discrete mathematics

• Permutations
• Combinations
• Challenge How to get home in bekomaze
• Challenge Tic-tac-toe