All my resources have been created to use with classes I teach. Often I've created resources because, for a particular topic, I haven't been happy with the number/standard of the examples in a textbook. Sometimes I've created worksheets for certain topics (e.g. graph transformations) because I feel my classes will make greater progress on a printed worksheet than trying to work from a textbook. I always aim to produce high-quality resources that improve the students' learning and understanding.
All my resources have been created to use with classes I teach. Often I've created resources because, for a particular topic, I haven't been happy with the number/standard of the examples in a textbook. Sometimes I've created worksheets for certain topics (e.g. graph transformations) because I feel my classes will make greater progress on a printed worksheet than trying to work from a textbook. I always aim to produce high-quality resources that improve the students' learning and understanding.
This worksheet covers how to solve single and double-sided inequalities and includes representing the solution on a number line as well as considering examples where integer solutions are required.
The introduction covers what the solution to a linear inequality should look like and, by means of a few examples, explores the similarities and differences between solving equations and inequalities.
The first exercise (52 Qs) then gives students practice solving inequalties of the form ax+b>c, x/a+b
The second section focuses on double-sided inequalities such as 3
The final section is designed to help students consider the integer solutions to an inequality. In the examples students need to find the smallest possible integer value of n if n>p, the largest possible integer value of n if n
Answers to all the exercises are provided, including the solutions on number lines.
Also included is a homework/test with fully worked solutions.
This simple worksheet focuses on using the following 3 rules for working out angles:
1. sum of angles on a straight line = 180
2. sum of angles at a point = 360
3. vertically opposite angles are equal
It begins with brief revision of the names for different sizes of angles and then there is a section for each of the 3 rules. Each section contains some example questions to work through with your class and then there is a short exercise for them to complete.
At the end there is an exercise of mixed questions to practise using all 3 rules. Answers to the exercises are included.
I used this sheet with my (bottom set) year 10 group. The idea was that printing/projecting the sheet would save me (and them) having to write out any examples/diagrams as notes, so that time is saved and they can focus on answering questions. After completing the sheet the class were ready to attempt additional exercises from a textbook.
I have used this resource a few times with my classes to cover the whole topic of groups. This 24-page worksheet covers all the required knowledge and skills for FP3.
Each section starts with introductory notes or examples, followed by an exercise for students to attempt.
The sections are:
1. Sets, binary operations, closed/commutative/closed operations, identity elements and inverses.
2. Groups - definition of a group, order of a group, group tables
3. Multiplicative groups and cancellation laws
4. Groups using modular arithmetic
5.Symmetries of shapes
6. The order of an element
7. Cyclic groups and generators
8. Subgroups
9. Lagrange's theorem
10. Isomorphic groups
The completed worksheet with all notes, examples and exercises completed (with fully-worked solutions) is also included.
This 21-page resource covers all the required knowledge for conditional probability in the A2 part of the new A level. In every section it contains examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The sections are:
Venn diagrams and set notation (revision of AS level work)
Conditional probability using Venn diagrams
Conditional probability using two-way tables
Conditional probability using tree diagrams
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to draw any tables/diagrams when teaching the topic and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the provided tables and diagrams.
The 2 page assessment covers all aspects of the topic and fully worked solutions are provided.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
This resource can be used to guide your students through the different techniques that may be used to solve some first order differential equations.
It begins with a reminder about the solution of 'variable separable' equations, with a couple of examples to work through.
By means of an example, the next section shows how the use of an integrating factor can help to solve 1st order linear diff.eqns. After the method is summarised there are a further 2 examples to work through with your class.
The worksheet then mentions the use of a substitution to simplify a complex diff.eqn into either a linear or variable separable one. There are no examples of such equations, just a table for students to practise determining if the resulting simplified equation is linear or variable separable.
The remainder of the resource introduces the important method of finding the general solution by adding the complementary function and the particular integral. It begins with the method for finding the complementary function from the auxiliary equation, and then goes on to explain the method for testing a suitable function f(x) for the particular integral (including the case where the function f(x) appears in the complementary function). There are several examples of this method to work through with your students, followed by an exercise with over 20 questions for students to complete themselves.
Answers to the exercise are included.
This 12 page resource covers the solution of 2nd order differential equations by finding the roots of its auxiliary equation, and its particular integral.
The first section focuses on cases where the auxiliary equation has real roots (distinct or repeated). It begins by concentrating on finding only the complementary function - there are several examples to work through with your class and then an exercise with 14 questions for students to attempt. There are then a few examples that involve finding both the complementary function and the particular integral.
The second section focuses on cases where the auxiliary equation has complex roots (a+/-bi or +/-bi). There are several examples to work through with your class and then an exercise with 18 questions for students to attempt. The exercise includes questions where students are required to consider the behaviour of the solution (bounded/unbounded oscillations) when x becomes large, as well as the function to which the solution approximates when x becomes large.
Answers to both exercises are included.
These resources cover all the required knowledge for the statistics element of the new AS level papers.
For each topic there are detailed notes, examples, exercises (with answers) and an assessment with fully worked solutions.
Please see the individual resources for more details.
This 15-page resource covers all the required knowledge and techniques for hypothesis testing in the A2 part of the new A level. It contains detailed notes, examples to work through with your class, and exercises of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The topics covered are:
The distribution of the sampling mean
Hypothesis tests using sample means
Hypothesis tests using correlation coefficients
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to write out or create any notes/examples when teaching this topic. It also increases how much you can get through in lessons as students don’t have to copy notes/questions and can work directly onto spaces provided for solutions. You could also email/print some or all of this for students who have missed lessons or need additional notes/practice/revision.
Also included is a 3-page assessment that covers the whole topic. Fully worked solutions are included.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
This 27-page resource introduces all the knowledge and skills required for the topic of integration in the AS part of the new A level. In every section it contains notes then examples to work through with your class, followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The sections are:
Finding an expression for a curve from its gradient function / derivative
Simplifying into the required form for integration
Determining the equation of a curve from its derivative and a point it passes through
Definite integrals
Finding the area between a curve and the x-axis
Finding the area between a curve and a straight line
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to write out any notes/examples or draw any graphs when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given diagrams and spaces provided for solutions.
Also included is a 4-page (20 questions) assessment that can be used as a homework or a test. Fully worked solutions are provided.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
These resources cover all the required knowledge and skills for differentiation and integration at AS level for the new A level.
Each resource contains teaching notes, examples, exercises (with solutions) and an assessment that can be used as a homework or a test.
Please see the individual resources for more details.
These are two different tests I created to assess the whole of the statistics element of the new AS level. Each test contains 16/17 examination-style questions, based on exemplar questions, specimen papers, topic tests or textbook questions, The tests cover the following:
Cumulative frequency diagrams
Box and whisker diagrams
Histograms
Scatter diagrams and correlation
Finding/estimating averages or measures of spread from grouped/ungrouped data or from summary statistics
Probability (two-way tables, tree diagrams, venn diagrams, independent and mutually exclusive events)
Probability density functions
Binomial distribution
Sampling methods
Hypothesis testing
Both tests come with fully-worked solutions.
Having two different tests is useful if, like me, you have two different A level groups and want to set them different tests, or you could give out one as a practice test or revision and use the other for an actual test.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
These resources are a collection of short tests on the application of Pythagoras’ theorem. All the tests are quite short (3/4 questions, so 5-10mins max). I created them so that I was able to test my classes more regularly on topics at different points through the year - each test is similar enough so that classes hopefully improve at the “standard” questions but there is also some variety in the later questions in each test and a progression in difficulty as you go through the tests.
There are 5 tests designed to be done with a calculator, 13 tests to be done without a calculator.
The questions include:
Finding the longest/shorter side of a right-angled triangle
Determining whether a triangle is right-angled
Finding the distance between 2 points
Using Pythagoras’ theorem in isosceles triangles, rectangles, squares etc
Using Pythagoras’ theorem in 3D
Using Pythagoras’ theorem where side lengths are given as surds
All tests come with fully-worked solutions which makes them easy to mark. This means that the tests could also be used as a revision resource for students.
A sample of the tests is available for free here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pythagoras-theorem-test-x2-11923017
This set of resources covers evaluating and simplifying expressions with powers.
The first resource is 18 multiple choice questions on evaluating powers for students to attempt (I usually get my class to do this in pairs/small groups).
The second resource is a worksheet with different sections that focus on evaluating with postive integer powers and 0, negative integer powers, then fractional powers. Each section contains examples to work through as a class and then an exercise for students to attempt. Answers are included.
The third and fourth resource cover simplifying expressions, following the same format and the 1st and 2nd.
The powerpoint contains slides that revise how to evaluate and simplify expressions with powers - useful as a plenary or as a refresher at the start of a lesson.
The multiple choice questions cover both evaluating and simplifying - useful as a revision resource or a quick assessment. Solutions provided.
The final resource is a set of questions to cover the whole powers topic, some of which are examination style questions. Answers are included.
This 17-page worksheet can be used to deliver the topic of proof in the new AS level specification for all exam boards. A great resource to help deliver this new topic - fully worked solutions included and a version with teaching notes added for some key points.
It begins by reviewing all the required basic knowledge. It discusses particular errors in solutions/proofs, covers the use of ⇒, ⇐ and ⇔, and writing solutions to inequalities in interval and set notation. For each of these 3 topics there are notes, then examples to work through with your class, then an exercise for students to complete.
For each of the 3 methods of proof (counter example, deduction, and exhaustion) there are a number of examples for you to work through as a class, followed by an exercise for students to attempt themselves.
There are also some suggested extension activities for students interested in doing some research or additional work that goes beyond the scope of the syllabus.
The fully-worked solutions to the exercises are included in the students’ version, and fully-worked solutions to all the examples are also included in the teachers’ versions.
I needed about 3 hours’ of teaching time to get through this whole worksheet with my classes.
A homework/test is also included, with fully-worked solutions provided.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
These resources are a collection of short tests on trigonometry in right-angled triangles. All the tests are quite short (3/4 questions, so 5-10mins max). I created them so that I was able to test my classes more regularly on topics at different points through the year - each test is similar enough so that classes hopefully improve at the “standard” questions but there is also some variety in the later questions in each test and a progression in difficulty as you go through the tests.
There are 10 tests designed to be done with a calculator, 10 tests to be done without a calculator.
The questions include:
1.Finding an angle or a side of a right-angled triangle
2.Stating the correct value of e.g. sin A for a given triangle (requires Pythagoras)
3.Knowing and using exact values of trig functions
4.Using trigonometry in isosceles triangles
5.Using trigonometry in 3D shapes
6.Using trigonometry where side lengths are given as surds
7.Proving identities/results with trig functions
8.Questions with bearings, angle of elevation/depression
All tests come with fully-worked solutions which makes them easy to mark. This means that the tests could also be used as a revision resource for students.
These resources cover all the expected knowledge and skills for both topics in the A2 part of the new A level.
Please see the individual resources for more details about their content.
This 32-page resource covers all the required knowledge and techniques for the more sophisticated methods of integration, as required for the new A level. In every section it contains notes, explanations and examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The sections/topics are:
1.Integration using "reverse chain rule"
2.Integration by substitution (x=f(u) or u=f(x))
3.Integration by parts
4.Using trigonometric identities
5.Using a trigonometric substitution
6.Integrating rational functions
In all there are over 130 questions in the various exercises for your students to work through.
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to create or write out any notes/examples when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given spaces provided for solutions. Answers to all exercises are included.
Also included is a 12-question assessment that can be used as a homework or a test. Fully worked solutions are provided.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
This 26-page resource covers all the required knowledge and techniques for binomial expansions with positive integer powers, as required for the new AS level. In every section it contains notes, explanations and examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The types of questions included in the examples and exercises are:
1.Expand (ax+b)^n or (a+bx)^n
2.Find first 3 terms, in ascending powers of x, of the expansion of (a+bx)^n
3.Find the coefficient of x^k in the expansion of (a+bx)^n
4.Given the coefficient of x^k in the expansion of (a+bx)^n, find the value of a (or b).
5.Evaluating or simplifying nCr without a calculator
6.Given that (1+ax)^n = … find the value of n
7.Expand (ax+b)^n, hence expand (cx+d)(ax+b)^n
8.Use the first 3 terms of an expansion of (a+bx)^n to estimate k^n
In all there are over 100 questions in the various exercises for your students to work through.
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to create or write out any notes/examples when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given spaces provided for solutions. Answers to all exercises are included.
Also included is a 16-question assessment that can be used as a homework or a test. Fully worked solutions are provided.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186