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Lessons and Diferentiated Resources to reduce the planning mountain
Differentiated Codebreaker: Solving Two-step Equations WITH algebra
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Differentiated Codebreaker: Solving Two-step Equations WITH algebra

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Differentiated Codebreaker Two different sets of questions using the same keycode. Worksheets prepared with and without keycode to allow for use in classroom or for homework. Includes; a) PPT with keycode and all answers b) Worksheets with Tasks and keycode Just tasks to use with PPT keycode
Pyramids - Volume and Surface Area
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Pyramids - Volume and Surface Area

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Lesson looking at pyramids. Starter explores nets of a square-based pyramid. Worked examples on Volume, followed by questions. Worked examples of Surface Area followed by questions. All answers included.
Ratio: Simplifying ratios_ decimals/ fractions
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Ratio: Simplifying ratios_ decimals/ fractions

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Lesson looking at how we simplify rations which have either decimals or fractions as their component shares. Starter reviews simplifying and sharing with integer shares. Ratios with decimals looks at multiplying by powers of 10 and then simplifying where appropriate. Ratios with fractions looks at examples with common denominators and with different denominators. Differentiated slides on each topic. All worked examples and question slides include answers.
Cones & Spheres: Volume and Surface Area
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Cones & Spheres: Volume and Surface Area

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Explanation of a cone as a type of pyramid and derives formulae from those of pyramids. Worked examples and questions. Formulae for spheres, worked examples and questions. Lesson also extends to look at hemispheres and compound shapes and use of π in answers. All answers included.
Prisms: Volume and Surface Areas
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Prisms: Volume and Surface Areas

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Starter reviewing areas of 2D shapes. Examples of volume calculations looking at areas of cross-sections leading to volume. Surface area found by through finding areas of each face. Worked examples and questions on all ideas. All answers included.
Using the nth term - Linear Sequences
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Using the nth term - Linear Sequences

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Starter asks pupils to describe number patterns from pictures. Then examining the properties of Linear Sequences from term-to-term rules, pictures, straight line graphs. Examples of how the general rule is used: finding terms, finding positions of terms, seeing if a number belongs in a sequence, finding common terms in two sequences. Worked examples and question slides on each topic. All answers included.
Grouping Continuous Data
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Grouping Continuous Data

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A complete lesson on ‘Grouping Continuous Data’, written for the new GCSE specification. Starter looks at whether data should be measured or counted leading into explanation of differences between discrete and continuous data. Explanation of why continuous data must be grouped. Examines why we don’t use bar charts for continuous data and what we do use. Questions and answers included on slides.
Proportion - Recipes
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Proportion - Recipes

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Whole lesson covering using proportion to change quantities of ingredients for different servings. Worked examples Questions Extension questions. All answers included
Enlargement - Fractional Scale Factors
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Enlargement - Fractional Scale Factors

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Examining the effects of using scale factors between 0 and 1. Worked examples without and with centre of enlargement. Includes worksheet for pupils to write on. All answers [including to worksheet] included on ppt.
Differentiated Codebreaker: Multiplying Decimals
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Differentiated Codebreaker: Multiplying Decimals

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Differentiated Codebreaker Two different sets of questions using the same keycode. Worksheets prepared with and without keycode to allow for use in classroom or for homework. Includes; a) PPT with keycode and all answers b) Worksheets with Tasks and keycode Just tasks to use with PPT keycode
Converting Units
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Converting Units

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Converting between metric and imperial units.Starter on choosing reasonable units. Worked examples and question slides on converting between gallons and litres, miles and kilometres, kilograms and pounds and inches and centimetres. Plenary examining area. Worksheet reviewing lesson. All answers included.
Scales and Maps
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Scales and Maps

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand a map scale and use a map scale to find distances. Starter on unitary ratios. Converting between metric lengths. Worked examples including unit conversion. Question slides. Worksheet reviewing lesson. All answers included.
Calculations with Bounds
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Calculations with Bounds

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Find the Upper and Lower bounds of the results of calculations. Starter. Worked examples involving addition, multiplication and division. Question slides. Worksheet reviewing lesson. All answers included.
Rounding to a Suitable Degree of Accuracy
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Rounding to a Suitable Degree of Accuracy

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Explains the rules for an answer to a suitable degree of accuracy, looks at the possibility of different answers when measurements are described using decimal places vs significant figures. Plenary looks t underestimating vs overestimating.
Ratio - Sharing in a Ratio - Words
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Ratio - Sharing in a Ratio - Words

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Lesson looking at solving ratio questions using a structured worded approach [total shares, 1 share etc]. Full examples with 2 part and 3 part ratios. Questions covering 2 part ratios and 3 part ratios. Differentiated worksheet slide. All answers included.
Multiples of Pi
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Multiples of Pi

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Solving Problems with multiples of pi. Starter matches formulae for formula involving pi. Explanation that using pi is more accurate than decimals/significant figures. Examples of problem solving involving areas of sectors, volumes and surface areas of cylinders and cones. Worked examples for all ideas. Questions and answers included.