Curriculum
Year 7 (Grade 7)
Ages 12–13 · Integers, rational numbers, expressions, equations, geometry of circles.
Division
Under Numbers
- Long division
Divide, multiply, subtract, bring down — the four-step dance, animated.
- Division
Share 12 cookies between 3 friends — see division as fair sharing.
- Divisibility rules
Quick tricks to check whether a number is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 or 10.
- Dividing by zero
Why your calculator throws an error and what undefined really means.
Numbers
Under Numbers
- Irrational numbers
Decimals with no pattern, no repeat, no end — like √2 and π.
- Integers
Negative + positive, and how to think about each.
- Prime numbers
Find primes with the Sieve of Eratosthenes — interactive.
- Factors & multiples
GCD, LCM and divisibility rules — the hidden structure of numbers.
- Factorial (n!)
5! = 5×4×3×2×1 = 120. Click and watch the tree fan out.
- Real numbers
Every number on the number line — the big family.
- Absolute value
Distance from zero, ignoring sign — |−7| = 7.
- Scientific notation
6.02 × 10²³ — a tidy way to write very big or very small numbers.
- Rounding numbers
Round to the nearest 10, 100, or decimal place — and the tie-breaker rules.
- Coprime
Two numbers whose only common factor is 1 — they share no factors.
- Evolution of numbers
Counting → naturals → integers → rationals → reals → complex. The story.
Decimals
Under Numbers
- Place value
Why 305 isn't the same as 350 — see digits move between columns.
- Decimals
Tenths, hundredths, thousandths — and why they line up.
- Hexadecimal
Base 16 — A through F take over after 9. Drives all those CSS colours.
- Decimal expansion
1/3 = 0.333…, 1/7 = 0.142857142857… every fraction has a pattern.
- Fractions, decimals & percentages
Three ways to write the same part of a whole — and how to switch between them.
Percentages
Under Numbers
Ratios & rates
Under Numbers
- Ratios & proportion
Two cups flour to one cup sugar — scale the recipe and watch the ratio hold.
- Order of operations
PEMDAS — brackets first, then powers, then × and ÷, then + and −.
- Golden ratio (φ)
1 : 1.618 — the rectangle that nests inside itself forever.
- Irrational numbers
Decimals with no pattern, no repeat, no end — like √2 and π.
- Rates
Miles per hour, beats per minute — anything 'per' is a rate.
Measurement
Under Measurement
- Introduction to measurement
What you can measure: length, mass, capacity, time, temperature.
- What is a unit?
A standard chunk you compare other things against — and why standards matter.
- Unit converter
Convert any length, mass, volume, area, speed, or temperature — with the cancel-the-units trick.
- US customary units
Inch, foot, pound, gallon, acre, Fahrenheit — the system that runs the US, with a visual size chart.
- Metric prefixes
kilo, mega, giga, milli, micro, nano — 14 prefixes that scale every metric unit.
- Length
mm, cm, m, km — and inches and feet.
- Metric length
mm, cm, m, km — base 10, easy to convert.
- US customary length
Inch, foot, yard, mile — and the conversions you really need.
- Time
Read clocks, count minutes, work with durations.
- Days, weeks, months, years
How many days in this month? When does the leap year fall?
- Months
Twelve months, names and origins — and how many days each one has.
- Weeks
Seven days, where the names come from, and how the modern week was set.
- Days
Sunrise to sunrise — and the 24 hours in between.
- Years
One trip around the sun — and why it's not exactly 365 days.
- Seasons
Spring, summer, autumn, winter — and the tilt of the Earth that drives them.
- Time units convert
Seconds, minutes, hours, days — convert between any two.
- Stopwatches & timers
Measuring elapsed time — for races, recipes and physics experiments.
- Analog & digital clocks
Two ways to display the same time — read either at a glance.
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Geometry (Plane)
Under Geometry
- Similar triangles
Same shape, different size — corresponding sides scale together.
- Congruent triangles
Same shape AND same size — SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, RHS prove it.
- Triangles
The three angles always sum to 180°. Drag to convince yourself.
- Triangle centers
Centroid, circumcenter, incenter, orthocenter — four points every triangle hides.
- Area & perimeter
Resize a rectangle and see area and perimeter follow.
- Interior angles of polygons
Triangle 180°, quad 360°, pentagon 540° — sum grows by 180° per side.
- Exterior angles of polygons
Walk around a polygon — the turns always add to 360°.
- Triangle inequality
Two sides always add to more than the third — or no triangle.
- Right-angle triangle
One 90° corner — and the home of Pythagoras and trig.
- Equilateral triangle
Three equal sides, three 60° angles — the most symmetric triangle.
- Isosceles triangle
Two equal sides — and the base angles are equal too.
- Scalene triangle
All sides different — no symmetry.
- 3-4-5 triangle
The simplest right triangle in whole numbers — used since ancient Egypt.
- Rectangle
Four right angles, opposite sides equal — the most familiar shape.
- Construct triangles
Three sides, two sides and an angle — build a triangle from any combination.
- Rotational symmetry
Spin a shape — does it look the same before a full turn?
- Shapes
Circle, triangle, square, polygon — names, sides, properties.
- Polygons
Three sides, four, five, six… and the angle each interior corner gets.
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Geometry (Solid)
Under Geometry
- 3D shapes & volume
Cubes, spheres, cylinders — drag a dimension and watch volume grow.
- Sphere volume & surface
(4/3)πr³ and 4πr² — Archimedes worked these out without calculus.
- Hypercubes
What's a cube in 4 dimensions? Or 5? You can almost picture it.
- Solid geometry
Polyhedra, prisms, pyramids, Platonic solids — Euler's V−E+F = 2.
- Cube
Six squares, twelve edges, eight corners — the simplest 3D solid.
- Sphere
Every point the same distance from the center — the most efficient surface.
- Cylinder
Two circles joined by a tube. Cans, pipes, drums.
- Cone
A circle pulled to a point. Ice-cream, party hats, traffic markers.
- Torus
A donut. One hole, but a surprising amount of geometry.
- Prisms
Same shape, top and bottom — connected by rectangles.
- Pyramids
A polygon base, all sides meeting at one peak.
- Platonic solids
There are exactly five — tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron.
- Nets
Unfold a solid into a flat net — a paper template you can cut and rebuild.
- Tetrahedron
Four triangular faces — the simplest 3D solid.
- Octahedron
Eight triangular faces — like two pyramids glued base to base.
- Dodecahedron
Twelve pentagonal faces — one of the five Platonic solids.
- Icosahedron
Twenty triangular faces — the most spherical of the Platonic solids.
Algebra
Under Algebra
- Substitution
Swap a letter for a number. The simplest move in algebra.
- Expressions
Combine like terms — simplify with a tap.
- Like terms
3x and 5x add to 8x. 3x and 5y don't combine. Why like terms matter.
- Expanding
Multiply out the brackets — distribute, FOIL, then simplify.
- Equations
Balance both sides of a scale and solve for the unknown.
- Linear equations
ax + b = c. The cleanest equation — one variable, one solution.
- Equations of a line
Slope-intercept, point-slope, two-point — every form for y = mx + b.
- Remainder & factor theorems
If P(a) = 0, then (x − a) is a factor. The fastest factor check there is.
- Rational expressions
Polynomials in fractions. Add, subtract, multiply, divide — same rules as fractions.
- Factoring
Break x² + 5x + 6 into (x+2)(x+3) — split the middle.
- Factoring quadratics
Find two numbers that multiply to c and add to b — the quadratic factor trick.
- Quadratic formula
x = (−b ± √(b² − 4ac)) / 2a — solves every quadratic.
- Systems of equations
Two equations, two unknowns — substitute, eliminate, or matrix-solve.
- Introduction
Letters stand in for unknown numbers. The first idea — and why it works.
- Brackets
Parentheses, square brackets, braces — when each one is used and why.
- Simplify
Cancel, combine and rewrite — make the expression as small as possible.
- Inequalities
Less-than, greater-than, and number-line shading.
- Solving inequalities
Same moves as equations — except multiplying by a negative flips the sign.
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Exponents & roots
Under Numbers
- Square & cube roots
What number times itself is 16? See roots as the inverse of powers.
- Scientific notation
6.02 × 10²³ — a tidy way to write very big or very small numbers.
- Cube root
What number, multiplied by itself three times, gives this?
- Nth root
Square, cube, fourth, fifth — the general inverse of powers.
Inequalities
Under Algebra
Linear equations
Under Algebra
Trigonometry
Under Algebra
- Sin, cos, tan graphs
The waves trigonometry draws when you sweep an angle.
- Sine & cosine laws
Triangles without right angles — two laws that solve them anyway.
- Trigonometry
sin, cos, tan and the right-triangle ratios behind every angle.
- Trig identities
sin² + cos² = 1, and the family of equations that always hold.
Polynomials
Under Algebra
Functions
Under Algebra
- Direct & inverse proportion
Twice the input, twice (or half) the output — two flavours of proportion.
- Functions & graphs
Slide m and b on y = mx + b and watch the line move.
- Evaluating functions
f(3) means: drop 3 in for x, simplify, read the answer.
- Odd & even functions
Mirror across the y-axis (even) or rotate around the origin (odd).
- Matrix inverse
The matrix that undoes another — like 1/x but for matrices.
Data
Under Data
- Pie charts
Slices of a circle — each one a percentage of the whole.
- Charts
Bar, pie, line — the same numbers told three ways.
- Bar graphs
Compare categories at a glance — taller bar means bigger.
- Line graphs
Connect points to track change over time.
- Pictographs
Pictures stand in for counts — friendly charts for small data.
- Histograms
Bar charts for grouped numerical data — bins on the x-axis.
- Dot plots
One dot per data point — see exactly where each value lands.
- Tally marks
The fastest way to count by hand — strokes in groups of five.
- Frequency distribution
How often each value (or range) appears — turn a list into a table.
- Cumulative frequency
Running total — and the curve it builds.
- Scatter plots
Two variables, one dot per data point — patterns appear.
- Stem & leaf plots
An old-school way to see distribution without losing the actual numbers.
- Surveys
Design good questions, gather honest answers, analyse the results.
- Averages
Mean, median, mode, range — interactive.
- Mean
Add them all, divide by how many — the everyday average.
- Weighted mean
Some data points count more — multiply, then divide by total weight.
- Mean deviation
On average, how far is each value from the mean?
- Median
The middle value when sorted — robust against outliers.
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Estimation
Under Data
No lessons mapped for this group yet — see Data for related content.
Graphs
Under Algebra
Probability
Under Data
- Probability tree diagrams
Branch out the possibilities — multiply along, add across.
- Conditional probability
P(A given B) — once you know B happened, A's chances change.
- Complement
P(not A) = 1 − P(A). The 'everything else' rule.
- Probability
Roll dice and flip coins as many times as you like.
- Independent events
One coin flip doesn't affect the next — multiply their probabilities.
- Mutually exclusive events
Can't both happen at once — add their probabilities.
- Bayes' theorem
Update your beliefs when new evidence shows up.
- Birthday paradox
Just 23 people — and there's a 50% chance two share a birthday.
Statistics
Under Data
- Mean deviation
On average, how far is each value from the mean?
- Mean
Add them all, divide by how many — the everyday average.
- Weighted mean
Some data points count more — multiply, then divide by total weight.
- Median
The middle value when sorted — robust against outliers.
- Mode
The value that appears most often.
- Range
Largest minus smallest — the simplest spread.
- Spread & quartiles
Range, IQR, standard deviation — how spread out is the data?
- Quartiles
Split sorted data into four equal groups — Q1, Q2 (median), Q3.
- Percentiles
The 90th percentile means 90% of values fall below — used for ranks.
- Standard deviation
The typical distance of a value from the mean — spread, summarised.
- Outliers
Data points way outside the pack — notice them, investigate, decide.
- Normal distribution
The bell curve — why so much of the world clusters around an average.
- Standard normal
Mean 0, SD 1 — the bell curve everyone calibrates against.
- Skewness
How lopsided is the distribution? Tail to the left or right.
- Confidence intervals
Wrap a margin of error around an estimate — and quantify your trust.
- Chi-square test
Test whether observed counts match what you expected.
- Student's t-test
Compare means with small samples — the workhorse of stats.
- Sampling
Pick a small group to learn about a big one — without bias.
Money
Under Money
- Counting money
Add up coins and bills.
- Money & decimals
Cents are decimals of a dollar — every transaction is decimal arithmetic.
- Make an amount
Build $1.37 with the fewest coins — a classic problem.
- Wages & salary
Hourly, salaried, overtime — and how to compare offers fairly.
- Percentages & discounts
20% off — what does that actually cost?
- Interest
What interest is, why borrowers pay it, why savers earn it.
- Simple interest
Interest on the original amount only — clean and predictable.
- Compound interest
Interest earns interest. Slide the years and watch the curve bend up.
- Compound interest derivation
Why A = P(1 + r/n)^(nt) — and where every letter comes from.
- Budgeting
Income in, expenses out — build a balanced month.
- Currency conversion
Convert between dollars, euros, pounds and more.
- Investing basics
What a return is, what risk is, and why time helps.
- Annuities
Regular payments — how to value a stream of cash flows.
- Present value
What a future dollar is worth today — discount it back.
- Net present value
Sum of discounted cash flows — positive means it's worth doing.
- Internal rate of return
The discount rate that makes NPV zero — investing's headline number.
- Insurance
Pool small premiums, pay big claims — risk-sharing as maths.
- Rent or buy
When does owning beat renting? A comparison you can run with numbers.
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