Today’s resource can be tricky it combines the skills of expanding out brackets and simplifying with area and perimeter. Each question on this resource could be used as a separate activity or the sheet could be used for homework. It really tests the understanding of expressions and area and perimeter with some reasoning style questions included.
There is a lot of problem solving involved in this, my favourite being question 4 which took a while to put together as well as answer.
This could easily be extended as you will see at the end of the resource to include fractions, percentages, averages and spread. You could even go further and ask students to substitute a value for x into the expressions and arrange the shapes via order of size (but if you do this please note this resource was designed for only expressions and so the shapes were not drawn to scale)
I really hope you enjoy, please give me feedback (especially if you come across any mistakes). This will be available on TES until Monday 13th August.
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These are great as challenge questions in my mixed band, thank you
Fantastic Thanks for sharing
This resource looks fantastic, however, there is a rather unfortunate spelling mistake on the 2nd page which sees ‘white’ spelt with an ‘s’. Whilst I found it amusing it could be embarrassing in the classroom.
These are very challenging and match the new GCSE spec. Great resource. Thanks for sharing.
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