In Maths, each class is allocated to a grade.
The work for each grade for this half term is
outlined on the following slides.
You need to know which grade you are
learning about to know which section to
look at.
Grade 1
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 1: PERCENTAGES
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Know that 'per cent' means 'out of 100'
Calculate %s of quantities (50%, 25%, 75% and 10%)
when the answers are whole numbers.
Increase or decrease an amount by a percentage (50%,
25%, 75% or 10%).
Shade a shape using a percentage (50%, 25%, 75% or
10%).
Write down what percentage of a shape is shaded
(50%, 25%, 75% or 10%).
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 1: GEOMETRY 2
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Know the names of regular polygons up to a decagon.
Name and draw the parts of a circle.
Understand the difference between prisms and
pyramids.
Name common solid shapes, including cube, cuboid,
cylinder, cone, triangular prism, square-based pyramid
and sphere.
Identify the number of faces, edges and vertices in 3D
shapes.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 1: DECIMALS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Understand place value (up to thousandths).
Order decimal numbers.
Know how to convert between key fractions, decimals
and percentages (50%, 25%, 75% and 10%)
Add decimal numbers using written methods.
Subtract decimal numbers using written methods.
Use written methods to solve problems involving
money.
Know that money must always be written with two
decimal places.
Notes
Grade 2
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 2: GEOMETRY 1
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Work out the size of missing angles at a point.
Work out the size of missing angles on a straight line.
Know and use the fact that vertically opposite angles
are equal.
Work out missing angles in triangles, including rightangled, equilateral and isosceles triangles.
Work out missing angles in quadrilaterals.
Know the properties of special quadrilaterals,
including equal sides/angles, parallel sides,
symmetries.
Identify a quadrilateral given its properties.
Draw a sketch of a named quadrilateral.
Identify quadrilaterals that have common properties
and be able to classify quadrilaterals.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 2: COORDINATES & GRAPHS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Find the coordinates of a fourth corner of a
quadrilateral, given the coordinates of the other three
corners.
Find the coordinates of the midpoint of a line.
Identify and use cells in contexts such as Battleships and
Connect 4.
Read from graphs represeting real-life situations, for
example, find the cost of a bill depending on the
number of minutes used on a mobile phone.
Understand that a fixed charge can be read from a reallife graph representing a cost by looking at the vertical
axis.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 2: ROUNDING & APPROXIMATION
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Round numbers to a given number of decimal places.
Notes
Grade 3
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 3: DECIMALS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Convert between all terminating fractions, decimals
and percentages.
Divide decimal numbers by a single digit number using
written methods.
Recognise when solving a worded problem that you
need to add / subtract / multiply or divide a decimal
number.
Know that when answering a question involving
money, your answer must be written to two decimal
places.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 3: SEQUENCES
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Be able to write out a sequence if you know the nth
term.
Be able to decide whether a number will be in a
sequence if you know the nth term.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 3: TRANSFORMATIONS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Be able to follow instructions to rotate a shape on a
grid.
Be able to identify and describe a rotation by giving
the angle, direction and centre of rotation.
Be able to follow instructions to reflect a shape on a
grid.
Be able to identify and describe a reflection by giving
the equation of the mirror line.
Be able to use a vector to translate a shape on a grid.
Be able to identify and describe a translation using a
vector.
Be able to enlarge a shape using a positive scale factor,
both with and without a centre of enlargement.
Be able to enlarge a shape using a positive fractional
scale factor, both with and without a centre of
enlargement.
Be able to identify and describe an enlargement by
giving the scale factor and centre of enlargement.
Notes
Grade 4
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 4: EQUATIONS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Solve equations involving brackets.
Confidently solve all equations with the letters on only
one side by balancing both sides of the equation.
Solve equations with letters on both sides of the
equation by balancing both sides.
Set up simple equations to solve worded problems.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 4: MEASURES
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Understand and know the formula for speed.
Use the formula for speed to calculate speed across a
range of measures (mph, km/h, m/s etc).
Use the formula for speed to calculate distance across
a range of measures (mph, km/h, m/s etc).
Use the formula for speed to calculate time across a
range of measures (mph, km/h, m/s etc).
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 4: COORDINATES & GRAPHS 1
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Know that equations of straight lines are always of the
form y = mx + c.
Understand that 'm' stands for the gradient of a
straight line and understand what 'gradient' means.
Be able to calculate the gradient of a straight line
graph from a drawing of the graph.
Be able to calculate the gradient of a straight line
graph given two points that are on the line.
Understand that 'c' stands for the y-intercept of a
straight line graph and understand what 'y-intercept'
means.
Be able to identify the y-intercept of a straight line
graph from a drawing of the graph.
Be able to draw a straight line graph using the gradient
and the y-intercept.
Rearrange an equation into the form y=mx + c and
then use this to create a table of values and draw the
graph.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 4: CONSTRUCTIONS & LOCI
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Use compasses and a ruler to construct a
perpendicular at a given point on a given line.
Use compasses and a ruler to construct a
perpendicular from a given point to a given line.
Recognise when it is appropriate to construct a locus
to solve a problem, for example, using an angle
bisector to represent the locus of points equidistant
from two lines.
Recognise when it is appropriate to construct a region
to solve a problem, for example, a region that is less
than or greater than a given distance from a point or a
line.
Recognise when it is appropriate to construct a region
to solve a problem that satisfies several different
conditions.
Notes
Grade 5
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 5: FRACTIONS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Confidently add, subtract, multiply and divide
fractions.
Confidently add, subtract, multiply and divide mixed
numbers.
Recognise when it is useful to use a fraction as a
multiplicative inverse when dividing two numbers.
Know the meaning of the word 'reciprocal'.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 5: GEOMETRY 1
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Recognise when SOHCAHTOA should be used to solve a
problem.
Identify the hypotenuse, opposite and adjacent in a rightangled triangle.
Memorise SOHCAHTOA and know what this means.
Calculate missing sides in right-angled triangles.
Calculate missing angles in right-angled triangles.
Use SOHCAHTOA to solve worded problems.
Use SOHCAHTOA to solve problems involving bearings.
Recall the exact values of sin(x) and cos(x) for x = 0°, 30°, 45°,
60° and 90°.
Recall the exact value of tan(x) for x = 0°, 30°, 45° and 60°.
Write a number as a product of its prime factors, giving your
answer in index form.
Find the root of a number by writing it as a product of its prime
factors.
Use a Venn Diagram to find the LCM and HCF of two numbers.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 5: PERCENTAGES
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Calculate a % increase/decrease/profit/loss.
Understand the difference between simple interest
and compound interest.
Calculate bank balances after compound interest has
been received.
Solve other problems involving repeated proportional
change or exponential grown/decay (e.g. population
changes).
Be able to work out the original amount after a %
change (reverse %s).
Notes
Grade 6/7
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 6: STATISTICS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Find the interquartile range of a data set.
Understand why it is often better to use the
interquartile range rather than the range as a measure
of spread.
Draw a box plot to represent a data set.
Understand what is meant by 'cumulative frequency'.
Draw a cumulative frequency diagram to represent a
data set.
Interpret a cumulative frequency diagram to find the
median and the interquartile range for a data set.
Interpret a cumulative frequency diagram , for
example, determine how many people are
above/below a particular value.
Compare two groups of data, represented as either
box plots or cumulative frequency diagrams.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 6: INEQUALITIES
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Set up inequalities from worded information given in a
question.
Represent inequalities on a coordinate grid.
Find a region that satisfies a number of inequalities by
shading the sides of the boundary lines that do not
satisfy the inequalities.
Notes
LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
GRADE 7: COORDINATES & GRAPHS
By the end of this topic you should be able to......
Work out the gradient of a line that is parallel to a
given line.
Know that the gradients of perpendicular lines are the
negative reciprocal of each other.
Work out the gradient of a line that is perpendicular to
a given line.
Rearrange equations of straight line graphs to show
that the lines are parallel or perpendicular.
Draw and interpret the graphs y = sin(x), y = cos(x) and
y = tan(x)
Notes