Year 8 Maths

The Australian Curriculum: Classroom Approaches mathematics units were originally designed to align with Version 3 of the Australian Curriculum (2012) but have recently been updated to align with Version 9 (2024). The four units provide adaptable and scalable learning pathways that can be shaped for use in diverse classroom contexts, and hopefully provide inspiration for locally developed units of work for other depth studies and areas of the curriculum. Click the "Download Year 8 Units" button to get a PDF of the units outlined below.

Year 8 Units Overview

UNIT ONE: KNOW YOUR MARKET

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics helps us to make informed decisions.

    • Financial decisions involve consideration of profit and loss.

    • Area measures flat surfaces; volume is for 3D spaces.

  • Performance Task: Group preparation of a marketing package for a mobile phone

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M8N01, AC9M8N03, AC9M8N04, AC9M8N05, AC9M8M01, AC9M8M02, AC9M8M03, AC9M8M04, AC9M8M05, AC9M8M06, AC9M8M07

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence, Intercultural Understanding

UNIT TWO: ALGEBRA CHALLENGE

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics has its own value and beauty.

    • Factorisation is the distributive law in reverse.

    • Equations can be solved algebraically and graphically.

  • Performance Task: Individual tri-level challenge

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M8N01, AC9M8N02, AC9M8N03, AC9M8N04, AC9M8N05, AC9M8A01, AC9M8A02, AC9M8A03, AC9M8A04

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence

UNIT THREE: LIFE IN YEAR 8

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics helps us to make informed decisions.

    • A census collects data from everyone in a population; a sample collects data from just a few.

    • The smaller the sample, the more likely it is to be affected by outliers.

    • Complementary events can be used to simplify probability calculations.

  • Performance Task: Pair investigation of life in Year 8

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M8N04, AC9M8P01, AC9M8P02, AC9M8P03, AC9M8ST01, AC9M8ST02, AC9M8ST03, AC9M8ST04

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence, Intercultural Understanding

UNIT FOUR: SAME, SAME

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Mathematics has its own value and beauty.

    • Congruent triangles can be identified using minimal conditions.

    • Congruent triangles are an important investigative tool in geometry.

  • Performance Task: Individual tessellation design and production notes

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9M8N04, AC9M8SP01, AC9M8SP02

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Behaviour, Personal and Social Competence

Alternatively, if you prefer to create your own unit of work, please click the 'DIY Design Template' button below to download an attached Word document template.