The Maths revision for Year 8 GCSE students at Gore's Tutoring Dubai has been described below. (www.gorestutoring.com)
Revision Topics for Year 8 at Gore's Tutoring Dubai
Multiplying/Dividing by
negative numbers
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* To multiply by negative
numbers
* To divide by negative
numbers
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HCF and LCM
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* To find the highest
common factor of two integers
* To find the lowest common
multiple of two integers.
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Powers and Roots
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* To apply Integers between
1 and 10 to various powers.
* To apply the second and
third roots to various integers
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Prime Factors
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* To write a number as a
product of its prime factors
* To find the HCF and LCM
of two numbers by finding their prime factors.
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Alternate and Corresponding
angles
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* To identify alternate and
corresponding angles
* To calculate missing
angles using alternate and corresponding angles.
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Interior and Exterior
Angles of Polygons
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* To calculate interior and
exterior angles in regular polygons
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The Circle
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* To understand the
definition of a circle.
* To recognise and name the
various parts of a circle
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Circumference of a Circle
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*To learn the formula to
calculate a circles circumference
* To use the formula to
calculate the circumference
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Area of a Circle
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*To learn the formula to
calculate a circles area
* To use the formula to
calculate the area
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Solving Equations
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* To construct and solve
linear integer equations
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Equations involving
negative numbers
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* To construct and solve linear
integer equations with negatives
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Equations with unknowns on
both sides
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* To construct and solve
linear integer equations with unknowns on both sides
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Stem and Leaf Diagrams
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* To create stem-and-leaf
diagrams given a set of data.
* to calculate statistics
for sets of discrete and continuous data
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Expand and Simplify
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* Simplify expressions by
collecting like terms
* Expand and simplify
single brackets
* Expand and solve linear
equations
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Solving Equations by Trial
and Improvement
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* to find an approximate
solution to a non-linear equation through trial and improvement
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Plans and Elevations
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* To draw the plan and
elevations of a 3D shape
* To draw a 3D shape given
its plan and elevations
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Loci
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* To find simple loci to
produce shapes and paths
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Bearings
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* Use bearings to specify a
direction from one position to another
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