Grade 7Mathematics
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 7 Mathematics curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1NumbersPrimary arithmetic, taken further and made exact.
Whole Numbers
9 skillsPlace value into the millions, rounding, and the order operations have to be done in.
Factors
5 skillsWhat divides into what. Quietly the foundation of fractions, and worth getting solid.
Fractions
10 skillsThe largest topic in the strand. Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing them, and comparing two without guessing.
Decimals
4 skillsPlace value after the point, and arithmetic where the point has to land exactly right.
Squares and Square Roots
3 skillsA number times itself, and working back from the answer.
2AlgebraLetters standing in for numbers. New this year, and the thing most worth watching.
Algebraic Expressions
4 skillsTurning a sentence into an expression, then simplifying it.
Linear Equations
4 skillsFinding the number the letter stands for, and writing the equation from the words in the first place.
Linear Inequalities
6 skillsNot equals but at least and no more than. The maths of budgets and limits.
3MeasurementsThe largest strand of the year, and nearly all of it is the arithmetic of ordinary life.
Pythagorean Relationship
4 skillsThe rule about right angled triangles. The first piece of real geometry your child can use to find a length they cannot reach.
Length
5 skillsUnits, converting between them, and the perimeter of shapes that are not simple.
Area
5 skillsRectangles, triangles and the shapes made by joining them.
Volume and Capacity
7 skillsHow much a solid holds, and the difference between the space and what fills it.
Time, Distance and Speed
7 skillsKilometres per hour and metres per second, and what average speed really means on a journey that stopped twice.
Temperature
7 skillsMeasuring it, converting it, and working with readings above and below zero.
Money
11 skillsProfit and loss, discount, and the arithmetic of a bill. The largest topic in the subject, and the most immediately useful.
4GeometryShape and direction, measured properly rather than estimated.
Angles
8 skillsNaming them, measuring them, and the rules about the ones made when lines cross.
Geometrical Constructions
6 skillsRuler, compasses and protractor. Bisecting an angle and building a triangle, accurately rather than approximately.
5Data Handling and ProbabilityOne topic, and a large one.
Data Handling
12 skillsCollecting numbers, putting them in a table, drawing them as a chart, and reading a chart somebody else drew.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 7 Mathematics curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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