9th Grade Maths Checklist
9th Grade Maths Checklist
Topic 1: Set Theory, Probability, and Synthetic Binary Operations, Chapter 4 + 1:03
1. Interpret and use synthetic binary operations
2. Use set theory and notation
3. Draw and/or interpret Venn Diagrams
4. Predict outcomes using probability
Topic 2: Algebra and Quadratic Equations, Chapter 2
1. simplify expressions by expanding, combining like terms, or using FOIL
2. factorise/factor terms by finding a common factor or by using two binomials
3. solve quadratic equations by factoring/factorizing, or using the quadratic formula
Topic 3: Angles Chapter 3
1. Know the geometric proofs
2. Know ASA, SAS, AAA, and RHS
Topic 4: Exponents/Indices/Powers and Radicals/Surds, Chapter 5 + 1:05
1. understand powers and use the laws of exponents/indices to simplify or evaluate expressions involving exponents/indices
2. simplify a number, correctly removing negative exponents/indices
3. convert or simplify a number with a fractional power or written in root/radical notation
4. identify radicals/roots that are rational and those that are irrational/surds
5. convert between scientific (standard) notation and normal form
6. Rationalization
Topic 5: Rates, Proportions, Percentages & Time-Distance, Chapter 6 + 1:01D~F, 1:07, 1:13, 1:14
1. write a proportion and calculate a missing value
2. understand percentage and apply this knowledge to various word problems
3. calculate a part or the whole, given the percentage the part is of the whole
4. calculate the percentage one quantity is of another
5. calculate percentage increase or decrease
6. understand and use direct and inverse variation
7. sketch and/or interpret graphs representing various rates of change
8. interpret time-distance graphs
9. Know the formulae for calculating simple and compound interests
Topic 6: Coordinate Geometry: Lines, Slope/Gradient, and Parabolas, 1:06, 1:08, 7:01~7:04
1. when given 2 points, find distance, slope/gradient, midpoint
2. find the equation of a line: y = mx + b, from a pair of points; slope and y-intercept
3. given domain, find range
4. write the equation of a line parallel or perpendicular to a given line through a given point, (x0, y0), using the point-slope form
of an equation: y = m(x-x0) + y0
5. solve a linear equation