Mathematics

Assessment objectives of mathematics for Year 9

1) Numbers
a) Vocabulary and definitions for sets of numbers: Natural numbers, Integers, Rational
Numbers, Real numbers. Expressing simple facts using membership relation.
b) Use of the four operations and brackets, precedence of operations (including posit-
ive and negative numbers).
c) Calculations of powers and roots.
d) Highest common factors and lowest common multiple of two integers.
e) Rounding numbers, decimal places, and significant figures. Standard form.
f) Percentages, ratios, fractions, equivalence of.
g) Calculations involving speed, time and distance.
h) Unit conversions (including units of area and volume)

2) Algebra
a) Manipulation on algebraic expressions. Simplification. Expansion.
b) Finding the value of an algebraic expression for given values of variables. May in-
volve powers and surds.
c) Linear equations. Word problems leading to a linear equation.
d) Equations in form of proportion.
e) Formula rearrangement. Making a variable the subject of the formula.
f) Proportion as a statement of equivalent ratios, setting up a proportion to find un-
known.
g) Solve problems involving proportional reasoning in different contexts.

3) Geometry
a) Properties of polygons, including triangles, quadrilaterals and regular polygons.
b) Areas and perimeters of planar figures: area of a triangle, rectangle, trapezium, par-
allelogram, rhombus.
c) Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find side lengths of right triangles. Applications of
Pythagorean Theorem in word problems.
d) Areas and volumes of cuboids.
e) Angles. Vocabulary for angles, including angles around a point, angles between in-
tersecting straight lines, supplementary angles, complementary angles.

4) Statistics
a) Ways of presenting data.
b) Interpreting data and reading graphs.