Year 9

Binary gets a shorthand and text turns out to be numbers all along. Networks come apart into shapes and boxes that each do one job, a spreadsheet learns functions and formulas that can be copied without breaking, and programs grow structure: indented blocks, loops inside loops, and blocks of lines given a name so they can be used again.

4 units · 13 skills

Agreement with a tricky subject, telling a phrase from a clause, reading between the lines, why the writer wrote it, reporting verbs, modals and tense, questions and comparisons, commas with clauses, quantifiers and commonly confused words.

2 units · 12 skills

Rational numbers, powers and roots, algebraic identities and equations with the unknown on both sides, why the ruler-and-compass constructions work, quadrilaterals, areas and volumes, percentage change, grouped data and pie charts, and chance.

6 units · 15 skills

The cell under a microscope, the microbes that raise dough and set curd, the food chains that tie an ecosystem together, what matter is made of and how elements, compounds and mixtures differ, solutions and density, the winds that pressure differences drive, forces that touch and forces that reach, how mirrors and lenses bend a beam, and the two effects one electric current has.

10 units · 12 skills