Maths Teaching

July 11, 2008

Quadratics

Filed under: Brackets, algebra, factorising, quadratics — Maths Chick @ 3:22 pm
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Games

The excellent website Flashy Maths has a nice interactive game involving factorising quadratic expressions. A nice interface, and you can also download this to play offline for a bigger and better version.

February 18, 2008

Solving Linear Equations

Filed under: Brackets, Equations, algebra — Maths Chick @ 1:36 pm

Online Activites

The website Flashy Maths has a really nice interactive game for solving linear equations. You can enter the level of difficulty you require. Really nice interface - great for lesson starter or plenary. You can also save this game as a flash application to run offline.

Worksheets:

Solving equations level 1 - 40 very basic equations of the form ax = b or x/a = b. Solutions are all whole numbers.

Solving equations level 2 - 40 basic equations of the form a + x = b and a + bx = c

Solving equations with brackets - 24 questions of the form a(bx + c) = d and a(bx + d) = ex + f

equations-with-fractions.jpg Solving equations with fractions. 15 questions.

equations-with-brackets.jpg Solving equations with brackets.

Solving nasty fraction equations 8 questions on A* equations involving nasty fractions!

January 23, 2008

Brackets and Factorising

Filed under: Brackets, algebra — Maths Chick @ 5:03 pm

Worksheets:

expanding-brackets-1.jpg Expanding brackets 1

expanding-brackets-2.jpg Expanding brackets 2

expanding-brackets-3.jpg Expanding brackets 3

expanding-brackets-4.jpg Expanding brackets 4. Two pairs of brackets leading to quadratic expressions.

Expanding 2 pairs of brackets - sheet for pupils to write their answers, formatted as a table.

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