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title: "Year 8 Mathematics"
site: "Scotch Global Connect"
url: "https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/courses/year-8-mathematics"
description: "Students are introduced to proficiency strands: understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning."
published: "2023-10-02"
updated: "2024-02-01"
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# Year 8 Mathematics

Students are introduced to proficiency strands: understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning.
Path: Courses › Year 8 Mathematics

## Year 8 Mathematics

Course overview

## The proficiency strands **understanding, fluency, problem-solving** and **reasoning** are an integral part of mathematics content across the three content strands: [number](https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/mathematics-v8/overview/glossary/number "Display the glossary entry for Number") and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and [probability](https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/mathematics-v8/overview/glossary/probability "Display the glossary entry for Probability").

#### The proficiencies reinforce the significance of working mathematically within the content and describe how the content is explored or developed. They provide the language to build in the developmental aspects of the learning of mathematics. The achievement standards reflect the content and encompass the proficiencies.

At this year level:

- **understanding** includes describing patterns in uses of indices with whole numbers, recognising equivalences between fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios, plotting points on the Cartesian plane, identifying angles formed by a transversal crossing a pair of lines, and connecting the laws and properties of numbers to algebraic terms and expressions
- **fluency** includes calculating accurately with integers, representing fractions and decimals in various ways, investigating best buys, finding measures of central tendency and calculating areas of shapes and volumes of prisms
- **problem-solving** includes formulating and solving authentic problems using numbers and measurements, working with transformations and identifying symmetry, calculating angles and interpreting sets of data collected through chance experiments
- **reasoning** includes applying the number laws to calculations, applying known geometric facts to draw conclusions about shapes, applying an understanding of ratio and interpreting data displays.

## Topics

- Mathematics
- Senior school teacher
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