Number and Algebra
The arithmetic students bring from primary school, tightened into order of operations, fractions, ratios and the first algebraic moves.
- Whole numbers and place value
- Order of operations
- Directed numbers and number lines
NSW Mathematics Stage 4 (Year 7) syllabus strands, expressed in Dux teaching language. Dot points are our own phrasing, not syllabus prose.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Mathematics Year 7” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
The arithmetic students bring from primary school, tightened into order of operations, fractions, ratios and the first algebraic moves.
Metric measurement, the area and volume formulas that follow from it, and the angle facts that make geometric reasoning possible.
Collecting data honestly, summarising it with centre and spread, and the first real treatment of chance.
A Mathematics Year 7 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| calculate | Multiple choice | 1 |
| calculate | Calculation | 2–4 |
| explain | Short answer | 2–3 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Extended response | 4–6 |
| solve | Calculation | 3–5 |
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.