Year 8

Binary gets bigger and learns to add, and a spreadsheet formula turns out to be a small program. Then the internet turns out to be one thing and the web another, pages get built out of lists, tables and links, and programs start to remember values, keep running totals and choose between more than two paths.

4 units · 10 skills

Working out a word from its sentence, building words with a prefix or suffix, turning speech into a report, a full year of grammar, reading for the main idea, and writing a paragraph or an informal letter.

3 units · 17 skills

Percentage change and simple interest in financial maths, algebraic expressions and linear equations, powers and negative numbers, rational numbers, the properties of a triangle, and the measures of a data set.

5 units · 16 skills

How food and air are handled inside an animal and inside a plant, the changes adolescence brings, acids and bases and the indicators that tell them apart, which changes make a new substance, metals against non-metals, the three ways heat travels, timing a pendulum and working out a speed, why a shadow has the shape it does, building a torch circuit, and what lines up during an eclipse.

10 units · 12 skills