Year 8 skills
Numbers
Take the Numbers test
- Highest common factor and lowest common multiple
- 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
- 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
- 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
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