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Year 9 Teaching Summary
 
 Year 9 Teaching Summary
 
Number 1
Powers of ten and standard form
Significant figures and decimal places
Directed numbers
Percentages
Positive indices
Revision of Year 8 work
 
Percentage of a quantity

Number 2

Powers of ten and standard form
Four rules with fractions
Ratio
Direct proportion
Negative indices
Revision of Year 8 work
Proportional division
Including conversions with imperial units
Use of unitary method
Do not use α symbol

Algebra 1

Collection of like terms, products, bracket removal, equations

Revision of Year 8 work

Graphs I

Gradient of line joining two points
 Equation of straight line
Sketching a graph
 
Including rearrangement
Especially form ax + by = c

Shape and Space 1

Terminology in right-angled triangles

Tangent
 
Relationship with gradient
Calculating angles and side lengths in right-angled triangles

Shape and Space 2

Sine and cosine
Calculating angles and side lengths in right-angled triangles

Handling Data 1

Statistical investigation

Collection of data, frequency tables, tally charts, stem and leaf
Averages from raw data
Displaying data

Terminology

Concentrating on the latter
Advantages and disadvantages of different averages
Discrete and continuous

Handling Data 2

Scatter diagrams

 
Time-series data

Include mean point

Correlation, interpolation and extrapolation

End of First Term

 

 
Algebra 2
Four rules with algebraic fractions
Laws of indices
Solving equations including squares and square roots
Substitution into formulae
 
Solution of inequalities
 
 
 
Areas including parallelogram, trapezium and circle
Pythagoras
 

Graphs 2

Simultaneous equations
Inequalities and regions
Graphical method
Shading unwanted region

Number 3

Inverse percentages
Multiples, factors and primes
HCF, LCM
Long multiplication and division
Use of calculator
Revision of Year 8 work using multiplication method
 
Including using product of prime factors
Algebra 3
Bracket insertion; extracting common factor
Simplification of algebraic fractions
Equations with fractions
Simultaneous equations
Trial and improvement
 
 
 
Emphasis on elimination method

End of Second Term


 
Graphs 3
Distance-time graphs
Speed-time graphs
Including interpretation of gradient
Interpretation of gradient and area
Shape and Space 3
Basic geometry
 
Circle geometry
 
Similar triangles
Review of Year 8 work
Triangles, parallel lines, quadrilaterals, polygons
Angle at centre = …, angles in same segment, angle in a semicircle, opp. angles of cyclic quad., tangent and radius, Tangents from exterior point, bisector of chord
Handling Data 3
Averages from ungrouped frequency table
Class boundaries for different sorts of data
Mean from a grouped frequency table
Probability as relative frequency
Theoretical probability
 
 
 
 
Basic notation and use of probability spaces
Number 4
Compound percentages
Surds
Rounding
Arithmetic using standard form
 
Simplification rules
Upper and lower bounds
Use of calculator

Algebra 4

Changing the subject of a formula
Using formulae
Dimension of a formula
Expressions, equations, identities and formulae
Including those with squares and square roots
Volumes and surface areas

End of Year