Overview: This is the second semester of our eighth grade course.

Meets: Either once a week for 3 hours or twice a week for 1.5 hours each time.
Note: Classes are longer and/or meet more frequently during the summer.

Topics:

• Applying Mathematics
  • Earnings
  • Spending
  • Simple and compound interest
  • Profit and loss
  • Discounts
  • Commissions
  • Foreign exchange
  • Hire purchase
  • Taxation
  • Average speed
  • Rate, ratio and proportion
  • Percentage
  • Financial transactions
• Mensuration
  • Arc length and sector area
  • Spheres
  • Pyramids
  • Cones
• Geometry
  • Congruent figures
  • Similar figures
  • Angle properties of polygons
  • Tesselation patterns of polygons
  • Scale drawing.
• Symmetry
  • Line symmetry
  • Rotational symmetry
  • Symmetrical properties of regular polygons
  • Plane symmetry
  • Symmetrical properties of prisms, cylinders, pyramids and cones
• Statistics
  • Arithmetic mean
  • Mode
  • Median