Year 8 mathematics at school: What to expect
Find out about the skills your Year 8 child will be developing. Learn how you can support and build on what they learn at school.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Student activities Family and carer activities
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Place value Addition and subtraction Multiplication and division Operating with number
- Audience
- Families and carers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- number sense reasoning problem solving
- Other terms
- numeracy
- File type
- File size
- 1.2 MB
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