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Lessons and Diferentiated Resources to reduce the planning mountain
Transformations and Invariance
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Transformations and Invariance

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Starter asks pupils to recognise which transformation produced an image [MC]. Definition of invariance and then examination of how each transformation does (or doesn’t) produce invariant points. Question slides. All answers included on ppt.
Enlargement - Negative Scale Factors
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Enlargement - Negative Scale Factors

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Starter on scale factors. Worked examples on positive scale factors with a centre of enlargement and then extends to negative scale factors. Examples with integer and then fractional negative scale factors. Includes worksheet for pupils to write on. All answers (including for worksheet) included on the ppt.
Algebraic Proof
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Algebraic Proof

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Lesson covering algebraic definitions of consecutive, odd and even numbers. Proofs looked at 1] Prove that an expression is a multiple 2] Prove that two expressions are equal 3] Proofs involving properties of odd/even numbers. All skills are introduced through worked examples and have question slides. All answers included.
Finding an Iterative Formula
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Finding an Iterative Formula

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Rearrange an equation to produce an iterative formula. Understand that there can be more than one iterative formula for an equation. Use an iterative formula to solve an equation.
Coordinate Geometry: Pythagoras, Trigonometry and Coordinates
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Coordinate Geometry: Pythagoras, Trigonometry and Coordinates

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9-1 GCSE lesson applying Pythagoras and trigonometry to shapes on Cartesian grids. Starter reviews identifying which trig ratio to use. Worked examples of finding lengths and angles from shapes plotted through coordinates. Questions and worked answers. Plenary looking at where a point can be i you know how far it is from an identified coordinate.
Coordinate Geometry: Equation of a line_two coordinates
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Coordinate Geometry: Equation of a line_two coordinates

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9-1 GCSE lesson finding the gradient and then equation of a line from two coordinates. Starter looks at finding if a coordinate is on,above or below a given line. Worked examples on finding a gradient, questions, Worked examples on substituting a gradient into y=mx+c to find the intercept, questions. All answers included.
Understanding Loci
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Understanding Loci

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Looking at locus- around a point to a line to a line segment to 2 points to 2 lines Worked examples and questions included. All answers included.
Tree Diagrams
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Tree Diagrams

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Lesson introduces tree diagrams and explains how used for finding probabilities of independent events. Worked examples. Worksheet, All answers worked through and included on ppt.
Real Life Graphs
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Real Life Graphs

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Interpret real life situations and their graphical representations. Read information from graphs, understanding their scales. Add information to a graph. Interpret a graph by its shape. Identify the functional relationship of variables from the shape of a graph (linear, quadratic etc).
Factorising - Single Brackets
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Factorising - Single Brackets

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand how to factorise expressions into a single bracket. Starter: Common factors, expanding single brackets. Find Four activity on common factors of algebraic expressions. Multiple choice questions on HCF of algebraic expressions. Worked examples on factorising into a single bracket, differentiated questions and answers. Practical problems. Worksheet following lesson design. All answers included.
Expanding Brackets-Grid Method
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Expanding Brackets-Grid Method

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand how to multiply two or three brackets together using the grid method… Starter: Algebraic expressions multiplication grid. Worked examples on grid multiplication with numbers extending to algebra. Multiplying two brackets, differentiated questions and answers. Squaring brackets. Multiplying three brackets.Cubing brackets. Practical problems. Worksheet following lesson design. All answers included.
Expanding Brackets - FOIL method
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Expanding Brackets - FOIL method

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand how to multiply two or three brackets together using the FOIL method. Starter: Algebraic expressions multiplication grid. Worked examples on grid multiplication with numbers extending to algebra. Multiplying two brackets, differentiated questions and answers. Squaring brackets. Multiplying three brackets.Cubing brackets. Practical problems. Worksheet following lesson design. All answers included.
Index Laws: multiplying,dividing,brackets
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Index Laws: multiplying,dividing,brackets

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand and using three Laws of Indices: Multiplying with indices Dividing with indices Brackets with indices Starter: writing numbers using indices. Review of base number, power/index. Worked examples on each of the rules, separate differentiated questions and answers on each rule. Harder mixed problems. Worksheet following lesson design. All answers included.
Scale Drawings
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Scale Drawings

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Complete and interpret scale drawings.Starter on unitary ratios. Worked examples on converting between plans and real life and vice-versa. Question slides. Worksheet reviewing lesson. All answers included.
Writing Numbers in Standard Form
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Writing Numbers in Standard Form

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9-1 GCSE Lesson covering what standard form is, why we use it. How to convert from ordinary numbers to standard form and vice-versa. Examples and a differentiated LIMBO worksheet all with answers provided. Plenary is an exam style question involving converting between units of mass and ordering.
Problem Solving with Pythagoras
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Problem Solving with Pythagoras

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Review lesson on Pythagoras Theorem followed by contextual questions eg distance between two points, lengths of diagonals in quadrilaterals, distances from journeys described using bearings. 2 Starters on calculating square roots and estimating square roots. Answers provided for all questions.
Trigonometry in Right Triangles
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Trigonometry in Right Triangles

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9-1 Lesson applying trigonometry to right triangles. Starter reviews trig functions. Questions using trig in rectangles, isosceles triangles, angles of elevation & depression, problem solving. Worked examples, questions - full answers provided.
Exact Trigonometric Values
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Exact Trigonometric Values

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9-1 GCSE Lesson explaining the derivation of the exact values for sin,cos & tan of 30,45,60 degrees. Includes a worksheet [slide 13] for pupils to complete and questions & answers examining how these values are used in questions.