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Understanding Proportion: Combining Ratios
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Understanding Proportion: Combining Ratios

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand a proportional relationship and how it appears. Solve problems involving combining ratios and subsequently finding shares. Starter, worked examples, worksheet(different questions, same formats), all answers included
Index Laws: negative and fractional indices
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Index Laws: negative and fractional indices

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand and using two Laws of Indices: Numbers with negative indices Numbers with fractional indices Starter: 10Q MC on writing numbers using indices. Worked examples on each of the rules, separate differentiated questions and answers on each rule. Worksheet following lesson design. All answers included.
Grouping Discrete Data
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Grouping Discrete Data

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A complete lesson on ‘Grouping Discrete Data’, written for the new GCSE specification. Starter looks at whether data should be counted or measured and reinforces the differences between discrete and continuous data. Rationale for grouping examined. Examples of data being grouped, tallied and then represented. Questions and answers on slides.
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.
Circle Theorems
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Circle Theorems

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Mini lessons covering each theorem individually. Worked examples and 6 questions on each. All answers included.
Understanding Proportion: Changing Ratios
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Understanding Proportion: Changing Ratios

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand a proportional relationship and how it appears. Solve problems involving ratios changing using equivalence. Starter, worked examples, worksheet(different questions, same formats), all answers included
Polygons: Exterior Angles of Polygons
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Polygons: Exterior Angles of Polygons

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GCSE Higher Lesson. Understand the angle sum of exterior angles for polygons with different numbers of sides. Solve problems involving exterior angles and missing angles in polygons. Starter, worked examples, question slides, worksheet, all answers included
Number Patterns: Special Sequences
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Number Patterns: Special Sequences

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9-1 GCSE lesson covering square, cube, triangular numbers, Fibonacci sequence and connections between them. Includes 10 investigative questions on square and cube numbers [answers included].
Ratio - Ratios and Fractions
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Ratio - Ratios and Fractions

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Lesson explaining the links between ratios and fractions. Looks at unsimplified and simplified ratios with 2 and 3 parts. Worked Examples, Questions on ech idea. Also looks at solving worded questions without diagrams. All answers included.
Two-Way Tables
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Two-Way Tables

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Lesson looking at using two-way tables to find probabilities. Starter is a number puzzle finding answers from sums of rows and columns. Examples of populating a two-way table and finding probabilities. Worksheet has questions with table partly filled and questions requiring table to be filled from information. All answers included. Answers for worksheet included as slides on ppt.
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.
Codebreaker: Percentage Increase and Decrease
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Codebreaker: Percentage Increase and Decrease

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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
Rearranging Linear Equations into the form y = mx + c
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Rearranging Linear Equations into the form y = mx + c

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Lesson recapping gradient and y-axis intercept from y=mx + c. Structured examples on why and how some equations need to be rearranged to find the gradient and intercept. Worksheet with examples. Codebreaker activity included. 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.
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
Simultaneous Equations -  Elimination
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Simultaneous Equations - Elimination

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Lesson focuses on the elimination method to solve simultaneous equations. Explanation of simultaneous equations, elimination ideas. Lesson covers a) same coefficients same signs, b) same coefficients different signs, c) different coefficients. Worked examples and questions on each skill. Plenary looks at worded 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.