Long grammar schoolpreparation
Mathematics subject
- Place value, written arithmetic, rule of parentheses
- Understand the breakdown of the number in the decimal system, read off the place value, decimal point shift for multiplication / division by 10.
- Perform 100, apply basic operations to natural and decimal numbers, understand bracket rule and dot before dash.
- Divisor, multiple, cross sum and cross prod.
- Represent a natural number as a product of its divisors (in different ways), find the common divisor by trial and error.
- find natural numbers that satisfy certain conditions (concerning cross sum/cross product, even/odd, place value, divisor, etc.),
- solve simple sentence problems concerning divisors / multiples
- Understand and be able to calculate fractions and decimals
- Add, subtract, multiply with natural numbers, compare, expand, shorten, equate fractions, convert to decimals and mixed numbers (and vice versa).
- Order fractions, decimals, and mixed numbers by size.
- Length, hollow, time and weight measure
- Perform basic operations with different quantities and interpret the result.
- Convert units of length, volume, mass, and time.
- Perform basic operations with multiple units and specify the result in the desired form.
- Solve equations by calculating backwards
- Solve simple equations (with a placeholder/box), trace convoluted equations back to simple equations and solve by working backwards, form equations from sentence problems and solve them.
- Set tasks with multiple unknowns
- express two dependent unknowns by an equation, from sentence tasks (which contain at least two unknowns)
- form several equations and solve them by combining them, solve typical sentence tasks with mixing process, filling process etc.
- Proportionality and inverse proportionality
- solve simple two- and three-set tasks with proportional or inversely proportional quantities, solve typical set tasks on work, time, quantity, number, etc.
- Sentence tasks with fractions
- skillfully represent a given quantity as a fraction and calculate a specific fraction of it using a two- and three-step rule, subtract multiple fractions of a quantity from the quantity itself and calculate the initial or remainder quantity, calculate task types such as "fraction of a fraction of a quantity"
- Path - Time - Speed
- Learn and describe abbreviations of selected speed units, practice simple "lead" with a two or three sentence sentence, solve many sentence problems, perform speed-distance-time calculations, perform task types with "catch up, lap
- Counting, arranging and pairing
- Learn and describe abbreviations of selected speed units, perform simple speed-distance-time calculations using a two- or three-step rule, practice task types with "catch up, laps ahead," solve many sentence tasks
- In the triangle and quadrangle
- Perform perimeter and area calculations of triangles, quadrilaterals, and figures. Calculate a given area as a composition, given the perimeter of the rectangle and the dependence on length and width.
- Space and plane
- Draw views of a 3D figure, complete a given 3D figure into a cube, remove from a cube certain parts in the head and draw the result, systematically count number of cube faces of a given 3D figure (which consists of cubes), rotate a 3D figure along an axis(es) and draw or compare the result, flip a 3D figure to different directions and draw the result, rotate and flip 2D figures, draw and compare cube meshes.
- Numbers & Figures
- Recognize the evolution of given 2D and 3D figures and draw missing links. Express a sequence of patterns by a sequence of numbers and calculate quantities sought. Determine whether a sequence of numbers is finite or infinite and whether or not its members obey a rule. Form a given sequence from given digits. Calculate the members of a sequence of numbers.
- Length, angle/ bisector, perpendicular, parallel
- Learn different representations of distances, straight lines, rays and angles. Draw a line with a compass on a straight line/radius.
- Move a line parallel through a point with a triangle. Construct any parallel of a straight line without a set square.
- Construct a given length from given distances using a compass. Construct perpendiculars.
- Measure angles, add them together and measure them with the triangle. Construct angle bisectors. Construct special angles (such as 30º, 45º angles) without a triangle.
- Construct rhombus and rhomboid.
Long grammar schoolpreparation
German subject
- Expand vocabulary, find words with similar (synonyms) or opposite meaning (antonyms), use synonyms/antonyms in text context, expand foreign word knowledge.
- Expand vocabulary, know superordinates and subordinates, form new words by derivation and composition, know common homonyms (words with different meanings), complete analogies, use appropriate terms.
- Expand vocabulary, distinguish word families from word fields, know and use common noun and adjective endings, form word families, modify verbs using prefixes, use word family terms appropriate to context.
- Expand vocabulary; know, correct, complete, and explain twin/pair formulas, idioms, and proverbs.
- Know four cases, determine the case of expressions, put terms in the correct case.
- Forms and times
- Know finite and infinite verb forms, determine and form tenses
- Distinguish five types of words, know specific characteristics of each type of word.
- Know and use displacement test; rephrase, shorten, extend and connect sentences.
- Know and apply common spelling rules, correct spelling errors, spell words correctly.
- Set punctuation marks, know and apply most common comma rules, set the marks in direct speech.
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