Essential Maths for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 Fourth Edition (2024)
1. Computation with positive integers
2. Number properties and patterns
3. Fractions and percentages
4. Algebraic techniques
5. Decimals
6. Negative numbers
7. Geometry
8. Statistics and probability
9. Equations
10. Measurement
11 Algorithmic thinking (Digital chapter)
Trusted coverage of the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0, now with powerful diagnostic tools to identify and address gaps in student knowledge.
NOTE: For Western Australian customers who are continuing to follow the current Australian Curriculum (not v 9.0), we are committed to supporting the Third Edition resources.
What’s New:
- New content is introduced in the logical and sequential way you expect from Essential Mathematics to encourage deep understanding and support teachers’ delivery of the new curriculum.
- A technology and computational thinking activity per chapter addresses the curriculum’s focus on algorithms, computational thinking, and the use of technology, and encourages students to use digital tools to solve a range of mathematical problems.
- Targeted skillsheets – one for each lesson in each book – focus on a single skill or small set of related skills and are supported by worked examples.
- Editable PowerPoint lesson summaries, ideal for classroom presentation, help focus student attention and promote class discussion (available for teacher use in the Online Teaching Suite).
- Introducing our diagnostic assessment tool: developed in consultation with classroom teachers, this powerful tool offers the flexibility to build your tests using either the structure of the textbook or the curriculum, and choose to drill down to the level of individual mathematical skills. Identify and address gaps in student knowledge with intuitive reporting and follow-up work suggestions (the diagnostic assessment tool is accessed through the Online Teaching Suite).
A proven teaching and learning formula:
- Developed by the most experienced and authoritative team of authors writing for the Australian Curriculum, this new edition continues to combine logical and sequential topic development with well-graded exercises and linked examples to encourage deep understanding of concepts.
- Carefully designed, differentiated learning pathways (Foundation, Standard and Advanced) ensure all students have some experience across all question types. Topics within chapters are clearly labelled as revision, core or extension to assist with course planning and streaming.
- Integrated digital resources and a powerful Learning Management System, powered by Cambridge HOTmaths, enhance the teaching and learning experience.
AUTHOR(S):
David Greenwood / Bryn Humberstone / Justin Robinson / Jenny Goodman / Jennifer Vaughan / Stuart Palmer
REGION:
Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
LEVELS:
Year 7
SUBJECT AREA:
Mathematics / Australian Curriculum
ISBN:
9781009372794
PUBLICATION DATE:
10/10/2023
David Greenwood
David Greenwood is the Head of Mathematics at Trinity Grammar School in Melbourne and has 30+ years teaching mathematics from Year 7 to 12. He is the lead author for the Cambridge Essential series and has authored more than 80 titles for the Australian Curriculum and for the syllabuses of the states and territories. He specialises in analysing curriculum and the sequencing of course content for school mathematics courses. He also has an interest in the use of technology for the teaching of mathematics.
Bryn Humberstone
Bryn Humberstone graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Honours degree in Pure Mathematics, and has 20+ years' experience teaching secondary school mathematics. He has been a Head of Mathematics since 2014 at two independent schools in Victoria. Bryn is passionate about applying the science of learning to teaching and curriculum design, to maximise the chances of student success.
Justin Robinson
Justin Robinson is Co-Founder of The Wellbeing Distillery, an organisation committed to energising, equipping and empowering teachers. He consults with schools globally on the fields of student and educator wellbeing. Prior to this, Justin spent 25 years teaching mathematics, covering all levels of secondary education including teaching VCE, IB and A-Levels. His driving passion was engaging and challenging students within a safe learning environment. Justin is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education.
Jenny Goodman
Jenny Goodman has taught in schools for over 28 years and is currently teaching at a selective high school in Sydney. Jenny has an interest in the importance of literacy in mathematics education, and in teaching students of differing ability levels. She was awarded the Jones Medal for education at Sydney University and the Bourke Prize for Mathematics. She has written for CambridgeMATHS NSW and was involved in the Spectrum and Spectrum Gold series.
Jennifer Vaughan
Jennifer Vaughan has taught secondary mathematics for over 30 years in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and New Zealand and has tutored and lectured in mathematics at Queensland University of Technology. She is passionate about providing students of all ability levels with opportunities to understand and to have success in using mathematics. She has extensive experience in developing resources that make mathematical concepts more accessible, to develop student confidence, achievement and an enjoyment of maths.
Stuart Palmer
Stuart Palmer is a fully qualified high school mathematics teacher with more than 25 years’ experience teaching students from all walks of life in a variety of schools. He has been Head of Mathematics in two schools. He is very well known by teachers throughout the state for the professional learning workshops he delivers. Stuart also assists thousands of Year 12 students every year as they prepare for their HSC Examinations. At the University of Sydney, Stuart spent more than a decade running tutorials for pre-service mathematics teachers.