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Adding and Subtracting in Standard form

Students learn how to use non-calculator methods to solve addition and subtraction problems involving standard f...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 1
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Indices with Negative Powers

Students learn how to write indices with negative powers as fractions.  This lesson builds on using the multipli...
Key Stage 3 / Year 8 Term 1
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Large Numbers in Standard Form

Students learn how to convert between large numbers written in ordinary and standard form.  As learning progress...
Key Stage 3 / Year 8 Term 1
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Revising Calculations with Standard Form

Students revise how to use calculator and non-calculator methods to solve problems involving standard form.  As ...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 4
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Revising Negative and Fractional Indices

Students revise how to apply the rules of index notation evaluate expressions involving fractional and negative ...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 5
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Revising Prime Factors, Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common Multiple

Students revise how to calculate the prime factors of an integer.  As learning progresses they use prime factors...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 4
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Revising Rules of Indices

Students revise how to use index notation to simplify expressions involving powers and roots.  As learning progr...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 4
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Revising Writing Numbers in Standard Form

Students revise how to convert numbers between ordinary and standard form.  As learning progresses they perform ...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 4
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Simplifying numbers written in index form

Students learn how to use the multiplication and division rules to simplify numbers written in index form.  As l...
Key Stage 3 / Year 8 Term 1
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Writing small numbers in Standard Form

Students learn how to convert between ordinary and standard form for numbers less than 1.  More able students ar...
Key Stage 3 / Year 8 Term 1
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Calculations with Surds

By simplifying surds using square factors students learn how to evaluate and simplify expressions, such as, expa...
GCSE / Year 10 Term 3
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Simplifying Surds

Students learn about what a surd is and how it can be simplified using square factors.  To consolidate and exten...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 1
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Number
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Writing Numbers in Standard Index Form

Using place value students learn how to convert ordinary numbers to standard index form.  As learning progresses...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 1
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Calculations With Standard Index Form

To calculate with numbers written in standard form students are taught how to apply the rules of indices to a ba...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 1
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Number
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Rules of Indices

Using the multiplication and division rules students learn how to evaluate expressions in index notation.  As le...
GCSE / Year 11 Term 1
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Rationalising Denominators

The start of the lesson reviews simplifying products and quotients involving surds since this is prerequisite kn...
GCSE / Year 10 Term 3
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