Happy Home Education

All the year 8 maths units in one place.

This week, we bring together everything we’ve learned about fractions and percentages. We’ll start by revising how to find percentages of amounts, then move on to increasing and decreasing by percentages, and finding percentage change. We’ll then tackle reverse percentages before finishing the unit with a final assessment project covering all six weeks.

This week, you’ll take all the fraction skills you’ve learned so far, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and apply them to real-world problems. Fractions are not just abstract maths; they’re used in cooking, sport, construction, and science every day. By the end of this week, you’ll be confident in spotting when and how fractions are useful outside the classroom.

This week we build on last week’s work with addition and subtraction by learning how to multiply and divide fractions. These are core skills that connect to scaling, ratios, and proportional reasoning later in the term.

This week, we extend ideas from last week to include scale drawings, inverse proportion, and linear conversions. These skills will help you solve real-world problems like reading maps, converting measurements, and understanding relationships where one value increases as the other decreases.

This week we begin our work on proportional reasoning by exploring ratios. You will learn how to simplify ratios, find equivalent ratios, share amounts in a given ratio, and link ratios with fractions.

Planning documents for Year 8. Here you will find all the long-term and medium-term plans for the Year 8 Curriculum.