Slimkop

CAPS · Grade 9

Grade 9 homework help, in line with CAPS

Grade 9 is in the Senior Phase (Grades 7 to 9). New subjects like Technology and EMS start, Life Skills becomes Life Orientation, and maths moves to algebra. Slimkop helps your child understand the method, not just finish the worksheet.

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The one rule

Slimkop never gives the answer. It asks the question that helps your child work it out, and a right answer only counts once they can explain it.

What your Grade 9 child gets

  • Help with homework and projects in every subject, step by step. Slimkop never gives the answer: your child works it out.
  • A photo of the homework is enough to start.
  • Mock exams: a quick test (5 questions, 20 minutes) or a full Grade 9 exam of 75 marks in 2 hours.
  • Daily reading: a new Grade 9 comprehension story every day, about 1 500 to 1 700 words, with 10 questions.
  • Built on the official CAPS documents, plus free DBE workbooks and Siyavula textbooks.
  • In English or Afrikaans: your child picks.
  • In Parent view you see every chat, the time spent and the marks per CAPS topic.

Subjects in Grade 9

  • Mathematics
  • English Literacy
  • Afrikaans (FAL)
  • Afrikaans (HL)
  • Natural Sciences
  • History
  • Geography
  • Life Orientation
  • Technology
  • Economic and Management Sciences

How Slimkop helps a Grade 9 learner

An example Grade 9 Natural Sciences lesson. The child gives every answer; Slimkop asks the next question.

  1. SlimkopA science one: is iron rusting a physical change or a chemical change?
  2. ChildPhysical
  3. SlimkopGood guess. Here's a test: after a physical change, like ice melting, you can get the old substance back. Can rust easily be turned back into shiny iron?
  4. ChildNo
  5. SlimkopExactly. Rust is a new substance: iron oxide. The iron joined with a gas from the air. The word 'oxide' is a clue. Which gas?
  6. ChildOxygen
  7. SlimkopYes, with water helping. So a new substance formed. Physical or chemical change?
  8. ChildChemical
  9. SlimkopYes! Rusting is a chemical change: iron reacts with oxygen and water to form a new substance, iron oxide. You can't get the iron back just by drying it.

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