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Week 29 Jun - 05 Jul

Simplifying Expressions

Homework 3C - Video (7:12)

Lesson Notes

Please complete alternate parts of each question in Homework 3C, that is parts a,c,e,g etc.

Email me your solutions by Tuesday 30 June.

 

Multiplying Out Brackets

Homework 3D - Video (5:49)

Lesson Notes

Please complete alternate parts a,c,e,g,i of Q1 & Q2 then do Q3.

Email me your solutions by Sunday 5 July.

 

Perimeter of Simple and Composite Shapes

Homework 15A - Video (9:57)

Lesson Notes

Please complete all parts of Q1, Q3, Q5, Q7.

Email me your solutions by Tuesday 7 July.

Week 22 - 28 June

Week 15 - 21 June

Surds - Simplifying

Surds - Simplifying (3:53)

Lesson Notes

Please complete this five minute Exercise and email your answers to me by Tuesday 16 June.

 

Surds - Expanding Brackets

Surds - Expanding Brackets (5:20)

Lesson Notes

Please complete this five minute Exercise and email your answers to me by Friday 19 June.

 

Week 08 - 14 June

Introduction to Surds

Please watch the video lesson, print off the lesson notes for your file, do the self assessed exercise and self-mark from the solutions provided.

Intro to Surds (19:01)

Lesson Notes

Exercise and Solutions

Week 01 - 07 June

Monday & Tuesday

Box Plots

Intro to Box Plots (6:08)

Lesson Notes

Please complete this Box Plots Exercise and email me your solutions by Wednesday 3 June.

 

Wednesday & Thursday

Textbook Box Plots

Earlier this week the calculations and drawing of box plots went well. However, the comparisons between pairs of box plots did not go well.

Please watch Example 3 in the previous video clip which explains exactly how to make the comparisons. Then look at the lesson notes for Example 3 and try to apply the two techniques as closely as you can to the following 4 examples in this Textbook Exercise. No short cuts and no comparing anything other than medians and IQRs.

Email me your solutions by Sunday 7 June.

Week 18 - 24 May

Wednesday & Thursday

Finding Median and Inter-Quartile Range (IQR)

Please watch the video clip (6:05)

Lesson Notes and Exercise

Complete the 4 question Exercise at the end of the lesson notes and email me your solutions by Sunday 24 May.

Happy half-term week - this is your last work until 1 June.

Week 11 - 17 May

Monday & Tuesday

Estimating The Mean For Grouped Data

Please watch video lesson (15:56)

Print off these Lesson Notes for your file

Complete this Exercise and email your solutions to me by Wednesday 13 May

 

Wednesday & Thursday

Intro to Stem Leaf Diagrams

Please watch video lesson (15:32)

Print off these Lesson Notes for your file

Complete this Exercise and email your solutions to me by Wednesday 20 May

Week 04 - 10 May

Monday & Tuesday

Mean, Median, Mode and Range

Please watch the video (7:31)

Print off these Lesson Notes

Do this Exercise and mark it yourself from the solutions provided

 

Now complete the following exercise and email me your solutions by Wednesday 6 May.

Averages 1 Exercise

Week 27 Apr - 03 May

Monday & Tuesday

Trig Basics 3

Please complete and email your full solutions by Tuesday.

Trig Basics 3

 

Wednesday & Thursday

Trigonometry Problems

Please watch the video clip (5:15)

Lesson Notes and Exercise

Please complete the above exercise and email your full solutions by Sunday 3 May.

Week 20 - 26 April

Monday & Tuesday

Basic Trigonometry Recap

Please watch the short video recap of the work you were doing before the Easter break.

Basic Trig Recap (4:54)

Lesson Notes

Now complete Basic Trig 2 Exercise and email your full solutions to me by Wednesday 22 April.

 

Wednesday & Thursday

Catch up time

Week 30 Mar - 05 Apr

Monday & Tuesday

Intro to Basic Trigonometry

Please watch the video lesson Basic Trigonometry (19:27), print off the lesson notes, work through the associated exercise and self-mark from the solutions provided.

Lesson Notes

Exercise & Solutions

You do not have to send me anything regarding the above exercise.

 

Wednesday & Thursday

Mini-Assessment

Please complete this Basic Trig mini-assessment and email me your full solutions by Friday 03 April.

You will then have a two week break from Maths.

Week 23 - 29 March

Welcome to your first week of home learning.

We will begin by studying Pythagoras Theorem to which you will have been introduced back in Year 9.

Monday & Tuesday

Pythagoras Theorem

Please watch the video lesson Pythagoras Theorem (13:04), print off the lesson notes, work through the associated exercise and self-mark from the solutions provided.

Lesson Notes

Exercise and Solutions

Please complete the following min-assessment and email your work by Wednesday.

Pythagoras Assessment 1

 

Wednesday & Thursday

Pythagoras Theorem Problems

Video Lesson (3:04)

Lesson Notes and Exercise

Do the questions in your exercise book and email me your numerical answers by Saturday. There are 7 questions to do but you should have 10 answers because a couple of questions have multiple parts. I will post up solutions once you have all submitted your answers.

Week 16 - 22 March

Monday Lesson:

Revision 3

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Revision 4

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Revision 5

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Revision 6

Lesson Notes

Week 09 - 15 March

Monday Lesson:

Ratio Introduction

Lesson Notes 1

Lesson Notes 2

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Combining Ratios

Lesson Notes

Ratio Problems

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Revision 1

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Revision 2

Lesson Notes

 

Week 02 - 08 March

Monday Lesson:

Compound Interest

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Depreciation

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Linear Sequences

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Linear & Quadratic Sequences

Lesson Notes

Week 24 Feb - 01 Mar

Monday Lesson:

Probability Trees - Conditional

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Harder Probability Problems

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Fractions Decimals Percentages

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Reverse Percentage Problems

Lesson Notes

Week 10 - 16 February

Monday Lesson:

Assessment 3

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Review of Assessment 3

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Intro to Probability

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Probability Trees

Lesson Notes

 

Week 03 - 09 February

Monday Lesson:

Indices Test & Compound Measures Review

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Revision - Expand and Factorise

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Indices - Rearrange Formulae - Complete Square

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Distance Time Graphs

Lesson Notes

Week 27 Jan - 02 Feb

Monday Lesson:

Review of Indices

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Indices 2

Lesson Notes and Homework

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Review of Bounds

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Bounds Problems

Lesson Notes

Week 20 - 26 January

Monday Lesson:

Rearranging Formulae

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Completing the Square

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Translations of Graphs of Functions

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Quadratic Formula

Lesson Notes

Week 13 - 19 January

Monday Lesson:

Plotting Graph Exam Questions

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Revision of Standard Form

Please complete exercises 17.3S and 17.3A from Pink Textbooks

Week 06 - 12 January

Monday Lesson:

Solving Quadratic Equations By Factorising

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Factorising Quadratics With Multiple X Squared

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Quadratic Eqns With Multiple X Squared

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Quadratic Graphs

Lesson Notes

Week 16 - 22 December

Monday Lesson:

Assessment 2

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Review of Assessment 2

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Expansions

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Trinomials and Factorising Quadratics

Lesson Notes

Lesson Recap (4:35):

Transcript of Video

Week 09 - 15 December

Monday Lesson:

Straight Line Revision 1

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Straight Line Revision 2

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Inequalities Revision

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Simultaneous Equations Revision

Lesson Notes

Week 02 - 08 December

Monday Lesson:

Compound Units Exercise 22.1S

Lesson Notes and Homework

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Compound Units Exercise 22.1S Continued

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Compound Unit Problems Ex 22.1A

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Unit Conversions

Lesson Notes

 

Week 25 Nov - 01 Dec

Monday Lesson:

Upper and Lower Bounds

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Bounds 2

Lesson Notes and Homework

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Compound Measures

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Arithmetic in Different Bases

A look at arithmetic in different bases together with an exploration of imperial units. These topics are no longer on the GCSE syllabus but students must be able to perform arithmetic operations with times. For example, subtracting one 24-hour clock time from another or converting minutes into a fraction of an hour.

Lesson Notes

Week 18 - 24 November

Monday Lesson:

Rotations and Enlargements

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Enlargements - Negative Scale Factors

Lesson Notes

Enlargements - Cobweb Diagrams

Lesson Notes

Notes on Describing Transformations

 

Wednesday and Thursday Lessons:

Measures and Accuracy

Lesson Notes

Week 11 - 17 November

Monday and Tuesday Lessons:

Review of Simultaneous Equations

(Disrupted by Geography Trips)

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Simultaneous Equation Problems

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Translations and Reflections

Lesson Notes

Week 04 -10 November

Monday Lesson:

Simultaneous Equations 3

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Inequalities

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Graphical Inequalities

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

More Simultaneous Equations

Lesson Notes

Week 21 - 27 October

Monday Lesson:

Assessment 1

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Intro to Simultaneous Eqns

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Simultaneous Equations 2

Lesson Notes

Week 14 - 20 October

Monday Lesson:

Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Line Through 2 Points, Midpoints, Distance

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Revision 1 - Perimeter/Area/Volume

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Revision 2 - Perimeter/Area/Volume

Lesson Notes

Week 07 - 13 October

Monday Lesson:

Indices Consolidation

Lesson Notes and Homework

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Standard Form

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Standard Form 2

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Intro to Straight Line

Lesson Notes

Year 10 Parents' Evening

The Year 10 Parents' Evening will be held on Wednesday 4 March.

Week 30 Sep - 06 Oct

Monday Lesson:

Volume Basics and Packing Problems

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Packing and Costings

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Intro to Indices

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Indices 2

Lesson Notes

Week 23 - 29 September

Monday Lesson:

Cylinders & Cones

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Cylinders, Cones & Spheres

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Area and Volume Problems

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

School Closed

Week 16 - 22 September

Monday Lesson:

Area & Perimeter 2

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Rearranging Formulae

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Volume and Surface Area

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Prisms & Cylinders

Lesson Notes

Week 09 - 15 September

Monday Lesson:

Substitution Into Formulae

Lesson Notes

 

Tuesday Lesson:

Substituting, Expanding and Factorising

Lesson Notes and Homework

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Expanding Trinomials

Lesson Notes

Parts of a Circle

Lesson Notes

Lesson Recap (4:35):

Transcript of Video

 

Thursday Lesson:

Area and Perimeter

Lesson Notes

 

Week 02 - 08 September

Tuesday Lesson:

Review of Linear Equations

Lesson Notes

 

Wednesday Lesson:

Linear Equations 2

Lesson Notes

 

Thursday Lesson:

Review of Fractions

Lesson Notes

10CMN GCSE Scheme of Work

10CMN HOMEWORK

Rearranging Formulae

Please watch the video and print out the lesson notes for Monday.

Rearranging Formulae (23:30)

Rearranging Formulae Lesson Notes

Volume Basics

Please complete these 5 questions on file paper and hand in on Thursday 3 October.

Solutions to homework

Fractions (Third Set)

If you scored less than 9/10 on the second fractions homework please complete this exercise and hand in tomorrow.

Review of Fractions

The homework on fractions did not go well. The homework below will help you prepare for a re-test.

Questions       Solutions

Here is a short recap of simple fractions (3:11):

Transcript of Video

To be able to:

  • Add Mixed Numbers
  • Subtract Mixed Numbers

Lesson Recap (3:56):

Video transcript

To be able to:

  • Multiply Mixed Numbers
  • Divide Mixed Numbers

Lesson Recap (2:51):

Video transcript

 

Expand and Simplify

For tomorrow please complete homework at end of Tuesday 10 Sep lesson notes.

Becoming an Effective Learner

Professor Stephen Chew is a cognitive psychologist from Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. In 2011, he recorded five short videos (each 5 - 9 minutes long) to help students become more effective learners. They contain a whole range of dos and don'ts together with practical suggestions you can adopt to improve your learning. Below are direct links to each video. As an alternative you can log on to Youtube and type in 'Stephen Chew'

How to get the most out of studying (Part 1)  (6:54)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 2)  (7:15)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 3)  (5:46)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 4)  (9:17)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 5)  (7:29)

10CMN HOMEWORK

Rearranging Formulae

Please watch the video and print out the lesson notes for Monday.

Rearranging Formulae (23:30)

Rearranging Formulae Lesson Notes

Volume Basics

Please complete these 5 questions on file paper and hand in on Thursday 3 October.

Solutions to homework

Fractions (Third Set)

If you scored less than 9/10 on the second fractions homework please complete this exercise and hand in tomorrow.

Review of Fractions

The homework on fractions did not go well. The homework below will help you prepare for a re-test.

Questions       Solutions

Here is a short recap of simple fractions (3:11):

Transcript of Video

To be able to:

  • Add Mixed Numbers
  • Subtract Mixed Numbers

Lesson Recap (3:56):

Video transcript

To be able to:

  • Multiply Mixed Numbers
  • Divide Mixed Numbers

Lesson Recap (2:51):

Video transcript

 

Expand and Simplify

For tomorrow please complete homework at end of Tuesday 10 Sep lesson notes.

Becoming an Effective Learner

Professor Stephen Chew is a cognitive psychologist from Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. In 2011, he recorded five short videos (each 5 - 9 minutes long) to help students become more effective learners. They contain a whole range of dos and don'ts together with practical suggestions you can adopt to improve your learning. Below are direct links to each video. As an alternative you can log on to Youtube and type in 'Stephen Chew'

How to get the most out of studying (Part 1)  (6:54)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 2)  (7:15)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 3)  (5:46)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 4)  (9:17)

How to get the most out of studying (Part 5)  (7:29)